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- Silverymoon
- Date posted
- 33w ago
I feel like I deserve it
I feel like i deserve a head full of pain because I’ve been so toxic and I’ve done things I’ve never been held accountable for so it feels like my punishment that I deserve
I feel like i deserve a head full of pain because I’ve been so toxic and I’ve done things I’ve never been held accountable for so it feels like my punishment that I deserve
Think of it this way, the more you punish yourself like that the more toxic you’ll be. You gotta forgive yourself for your mistakes, I understand it feels crappy to have hurt others but no one is perfect and as long as you’ve learned from it, all you can do is move forward. I understand 100% like I feel soooooo guilty over some things in past relationships that still get me but I know that obsessing over the past won’t get me ANYWHERE near the future. I unfortunately obsess over improving though 🥲
Myself very much included, a common feeling amongst people battling OCD is a lack of self compassion. We usually don’t need someone else reprimanding us because we got that covered ourselves. When I first received my diagnosis, I used that to mean that I don’t deserve anything nice in life, and I just beat myself down more and more and more. You really should have heard how “helpful” my thoughts were when I turned my back for a moment and my 18 mo old daughter turned and fell and scratched her back. You may or may not have done things that you are not proud of, but truthfully, so does everyone. Things happen. Our choices may or may not be the right one in the moment or they may or may not influence an event. You can only make the decision you feel is best in the moment, and whatever happens will happen. If you haven’t, I recommend seeing a therapist specialized in treating OCD. They would definitely be someone you can share more with about why you feel you deserve this, and help you work through those feelings and to gain the tools to have whenever something new occurs in your life that your brain wants you to feel bad about
Does anyone feel like they deserve bad things to happen to them? And when they do happen, does anyone else feel sort of happy? Because you feel you deserve it?
A good life, success, healing, beautiful things? ⚠️ Important: please don’t read if this is triggering. No one should think this way about themselves, of course you deserve it all. I struggle with real events and harm OCD. My worst fear is being a bad person, causing harm or doing the wrong thing. These thoughts haunt me all the time and cause me to essentially throw my life away. I don’t go out, pursue opportunities, etc. because what if I don’t deserve them? I think of the worst things I’ve ever done all the time. The things that I’m most ashamed of. Like a broken record that’s all I replay in my head. Doesn’t matter if it was 5 or 10 years ago. And I beat myself up for not doing better. And I just don’t know how to move past it. I’ve read a lot of quotes and books about self help and love and acceptance (e.g. once you know better, do better). But for me I feel like I have to hate myself forever. I won’t ever get a clean slate, there’s a permanent stain on my record. I just can’t forgive myself, whether other people know it or not, I can’t allow myself to move forward. It’s about integrity for me. Does anyone relate? How do you do it? I’m so sorry if you’re also struggling. I don’t wish this for anyone. Please keep fighting, you’re not alone. ❤️
My life has been hell, and I don’t know how to move on. I (15M) did awful things when I started high school, thinking being sexual was the way to connect. I crossed boundaries, overshared, and kept flirting with friends and making sexual jokes, even after they said no (all over text). One friend stopped talking to me and can’t even look at me now. I feel like a monster. Why shouldn’t I be locked up? If I got therapy, I feel like I’d be sent jail. How can I ever move on?Then there were these 2 guys who were older than me one was 16 one was 17. The 16 yr old was introduced to me by my online friend who is my best friend and I begged the 16 yr old for pics (idk how it started but after my friends ex randomly messaged me and sent me pictures and then blocked me right after I think I became addicted to chasing that high) the 16 yr old eventually sent me a pic but it was real and I stopped bugging him on it after that but i feel so bad I did that but my friend tells me not to feel bad cause the guy was weird but I still feel bad. Then the 17 yr old I did the same thing with him but went too far when I tried getting pics from him by using my best friends ass pics she sent me (she was 15) I don’t think I grasped how wrong this was but that’s not an excuse she eventually found it when I told her after she tried getting pics from the guy herself to try and help me and the guy got mad when she stopped talking to him cause we found it weird talking to him. I told her about how I sent the pics she said she felt sick but forgave me cause she thought I was gonna harm myself. Fast forward the guy told me after I had still been flirting with him that I s@d him (we never met in person ever) and I felt so guilty and apologized a lot and he got annoyed and told me that he had been kinda manipulative to me and kept me in a loop of mystery and I don’t talk to him anymore. But one of my other friends stopped talking to me after I was being by too emotionally taxing on him because I became very depressed and didn’t wanna life anymore and tried to stop lifing a few times. And now idk if I actually s@d someone if I did that to someone and now I think I’m a pdo and I think I s@d my baby cousins and my little brother and now I’m scared bf I can’t even get help because my parents don’t believe in therapy and even if I wanted to I’m scared because I don’t want to go to jail but I think I deserve it honestly why should a monster like me live.
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