Am I a bad pet owner for having harmful thoughts about my animals?

Pet ocd

was hugging my cat and she got annoyed and meowed and i got sad and thought how could anyone hurt any animals then i start getting thoughts like u want to hurt one u want to really hurt one even ur own cats and it made me scared but i have little anxiety it made me sad tho. when i was little i had kicked my dog and that came up in my memories and now im scared i will hurt my pets. when i was younger i was weird and i have memories spaced out of me doing weird/bad stuff that i would never do now but it makes my ocd worse. I hate this :(

Username: yaya_zzyaya_zz

Date posted: 27w ago

OCD plats with your head everyone as a child I think did weird things including me we were children and we wanted to experience. We weren’t mature, a lot of times children don’t think they’re children so don’t feel bad for whatever you did in the past. The past it the past and remember you were just a kid. Now be a better person and trust yourself That you trust yourself enough to know you wouldn’t harm an animal. You wouldn’t feel bad. I’ve been thru so many ocd episodes trust me but we just have to connect with our true morals and not the morals ocd wants us to believe.

Username: yaya_zzyaya_zz

Date posted: 27w ago

Plays^

Username: Rissa94Rissa94

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 27w ago

I get these about my animals. It terrified me and I found myself avoiding my animals. It sucked because my animals are my life. I did start my therapy and it as helped tremendously. I still get my intrusive thoughts about my animals but it’s so much easier to sit with them. I get disturbing thoughts and images of my childhood with pets as well… that are absolutely not true even though my ocd tells me they are. those ones are harder to move on from sadly but it’s something I’m working on.

Username: Zahra991Zahra991

Date posted: 27w ago

I was trying to hug my cat too, when my cat gets annoyed he fights😭 and it’s so funny until he tried to bite my head😭 but anyways I had that thought too “did I just want to hurt my cat” and the thing is that you shouldn’t ruminate on a thought which is hard but you can do it cuz you know you wouldn’t hurt your cat I mean look at your reaction . Also those memories as a kid don’t mean shit about you of the present, we were all dumb as kids, curious and weird, we wouldn’t know how wrong stuff were back then, so don’t be too harsh on yourself, well your kid self. Also let ocd throw stuff at you and ignore it, the more you try arguing with it the more power you give to ocd

Username: Yeye123

Date posted: 1y ago

Harm ocd?? Past things.

I wanna cry, when I was a kid,like a toddler. 4-6 maybe. I used to do horrible things to my cat, I choked it twice.my bdother did too if I remember right, but still. Ik this isn’t false memory. I’m 100% sure I ddi this as a kid. But now looking back at it I’m like wtf??? But I’m scared because whenever I see animals hurt now or accidentally hurt my animal that thing pops up in my head again and I feel weird. I can’t explain the feeling but it bothers me so bad. I want to cry. I don’t like this, i rlly feel like I’m a bad person. Idek if this is ocd. What if I genuinely have mental problems???

Username: blackitty27

Date posted: 32w ago

Not again...

I've been doing so much better these past 2 weeks, I actually thought I was beginning o recover... However a few minutes ago I had a horrific thought about one of my cats, she was lying next o me on the bed with her belly up and I was stroking her, I was actually comfortable being by her and was petting her and kissing her and she looked so cute when suddenly my eyes drifted to the lower part of her belly and these horrific thought popped up saying: "I wamt to r*p3 my cat " I also got a horrible intrusive image, and I was absolutely disgusted but felt little to no anxiety to the thought which is really scary. I had to get away from her out of fear of hurting her and now I feel like i'm spiraling and falling back down into the deep dark hole I was at. I was feeling good today (i haven't felt like this in almost a year) and now I can be with my cats normally, comparing when my harm OCD was at it's peak I couln't even be near them. So why is this happening again, and why did I look at my cat's pr*vate parts and felt I did it purpose w bad intentions????!! I don't want to hurt my kitty 😭

Username: Boosboots

Date posted: 31w ago

zocd

sometimes when i hold a pet esp when its a baby or its something small I have intrusive images in my head to kill it or squeeze it break its bones. i am so scared that one day it might happens but i remind myself they are just thoughts and i know my body wouldn’t let me actually care it out. When i was little i remember seeing a worm and starring at it so intensely and just ripping it in half. A teacher saw me and told me to not play in the dirt anymore. I hate these thoughts i was holding a small baby kitten and i loved him! He was amazing and so adorable but he was so small i felt his ribcage so small so fragile and i wanted to squeeze it. Sometimes i think im really a serial killer deep down and if i dont get it under control im doomed to be like ted bundy or like dahmer

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