Scorpio1
- Date posted
- 1y
POCD and guilt
Hi all, I was wondering how other people with POCD deal with the guilt and shame that come with the POCD
8202382023
- Date posted
- 1y
Yes especially when it crosses with real event ocd
a5h22 a5h22
- Date posted
- 1y
I had a really bad bout of POCD about 2 years ago and the guilt killed me for a while. The best way I dealt with it personally was just to see myself as someone with a severe anxiety disorder and not a p. It was hard at first since the OCD makes you doubt you have OCD but I told myself that over and over until it settled into my thought patterns. Eventually that's partially what helped the POCD go away as well. I still get the intrusive thoughts but I'm mostly able to ignore them as I just think "that's OCD" and they go away :)
Emmnala Emmnala
- Date posted
- 1y
Yes pocd was my first ever theme before I even knew I had ocd or what it even was. Took me a few years to get through it and over the guilt completely but it does happen. My therapist would always tell me you are not hurting anyone with those thoughts except for yourself and you have to forgive yourself.
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