pocd career help

i would want to be a teacher or an aftercare counselor, not for the rest of my life, just for right now and i do get along with kids sometimes im not really around them alot. i wouldn’t want to work with high schoolers or middle schoolers, a part of me does to be able to set them up for the real world and ive been through a lot so I could give advice, but nowadays they are so disrespectful so I would rather work with little kids. BUT, i see so many TikTok’s of women getting arrested (women teachers) for doing stuff to their students. i already have pocd, and this scares me. it makes me feel like i should just stay away because im gonna end up “giving in and turning into a p”. it freaks me out. i then think I should work there anyways as exposure, but then my ocd tells me it’s because i want to be around kids and im using ocd and exposure as an excuse :(

Username: School123School123

Date posted: 30w ago

This is kind of how the ocd brain works. And I have these horrible pocd intrusive thoughts as well. But I can tell just by the way you are explaining it you really do not want that. The career is what you are interested in but not the horrible things your ocd is telling you. I promise it will be okay.

Username: AnonymousAnonymous

Date posted: 30w ago

I am a teacher and suffer from OCD. Honestly, it’s fine and really enjoy my career. I am still learning how to deal with my OCD but knowing now it’s OCD, I just take it as that and it doesn’t affect my ability to be an effective educator! Best of luck, teaching is a great career!

Username: Booklover19Booklover19

Date posted: 30w ago

I used to be a teacher’s aide for preschool and I loved it and hardly ever struggled with these thoughts and only wanted to protect and care for them and I kind of thought it was a form of ERP. I quit working there for personal reasons related to something completely different and my mental health has kinda been downhill ever since. I never had the urge to hurt or do anything bad when I was there but now I don’t even want to be in the same vicinity because it sets my anxiety off and I’ll have a GR sometimes and I HATE having that happen when I’m around an actual child. I’m also really struggling with thought-action fusion and feeling guilty about it

Username: thebubblyonethebubblyone

Date posted: 30w ago

hey, i can only imagine how tough it must be dealing with those thoughts, especially when you're considering a career that you're passionate about but your ocd is twisting it into something scary. it's really brave of you to even think about facing this head-on with exposure, but i get how your ocd can spin that into something it's not. it sounds like you're stuck in a really hard place right now. 💔 by the way, have you heard about this new ai-powered ocd therapy tool called 'unstuck'? i've been in your shoes before, and what really helped me was this free ai ocd therapy tool called "unstuck" (unstuckmyocd.com/try) that my nocd therapist recommended to me. i think it'll be especially helpful for you because it's designed to provide personalized step-by-step support for situations just like yours, helping to navigate those intrusive thoughts without giving them the power to dictate your career choices. it's like having an ocd therapist in your pocket, offering guidance when those fears and doubts get overwhelming. i hate when people promote stuff, but i really think it can help you because it's changed my life. lmk if you have qs or just want to talk more! <3

Username: NewToOCD8

Date posted: 1y ago

Teacher & POCD

Is anyone else a teacher with pocd? I taught High School for 5 years. I left, but now I need the consistent income again- tried real estate, but I just wasn’t making enough yet. I am now faced with an opportunity of returning to the classroom to teach, but my ocd is spiraling.

POCD

Username: bigdreamstob...

Date posted: 1y ago

teachers with POCD

ppl who teach kids on here: any advice or tips? i feel like i’ve gained a certain amount of trust or acceptance for being there but there’s also this nagging sense of worry that i’m not taken seriously. or worse, they think i’m perverted. i try not to bring nervous energy around them but i’m a dance teacher so i notice a lot without trying. sometimes i can feel fine and comfortable, and other times i’m scared out of my mind to even go there. what can be done to relieve the anxiety other than “accepting uncertainty?” i want them to be safe and feel safe.

POCD

Username: .fx.nxy.

Date posted: 1y ago

POCD anxiety

contains tw// p-ocd, beatstiality, self harm mentioned briefly ok so to start this i really enjoy child psychology, working with kids, etc. I’m a camp councilor in the summer at two different camps and a babysitter in the winter. I’m the youngest so no younger siblings but i know if i did i would 100% take care of them just because of my love of taking care of kids. I’ve always had p-ocd and struggled with it but it’s only gotten worse within the last year, starting with my psychiatrist saying i didn’t have ocd and casing a panic attack in my partial hospitalization program (a mental hospital.) I get pretty horrible thoughts about pocd and children and im currently having a small-medium anxiety attack about it. i have never hurt a child to but my brain keeps repeating the fact that “P3dos work in places where they have access to childern” at times when i’m activity working with kids it will happen and i ignore it but right now it feels stuck to me. I can’t help but understand that that is a fact and i’m more likely to be a p3do because of the fact i’m a camp councilor. i also have some pretty bad ocd about beastiality and i’m also panicking about that. i have some memories of me being 7ish and doing some questionable things regarding this. ( i know is (in theory) normal for kids that age due to differnt developmental stages and due to the fact that i was groomed as a kid) but the memories play in my head repeatedly and make me really upset. i start gagging and i can’t look at my pets anymore without wanting to hurt myself or throw up. (it’s mostly bad right now, not usually) I always try and distract myself and it usally helps but it’s not right now. i have ocd but every time i think about it i can’t help but question weather or not i’m actually a p3do/like animals. It’s gotten to the point where i start asking people to send me to jail but im staring to think that was a good idea given how terrible my thoughts are. i also have trouble talking to my friends about it because i never know if they will ss my texts and spread that i’m a p3do (they won’t but i get nervous) anyway please give advice/help with any of these issues if you can

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