- Date posted
- 1y
Pocd
Im overwhelmed and stressed. My child was talking to me and i worrt about groinals but I didnt want to ignore them so i look at them when they talk to me.
Im overwhelmed and stressed. My child was talking to me and i worrt about groinals but I didnt want to ignore them so i look at them when they talk to me.
I have pocd too, I love my kids so much but face many challenges around them.
@Jesse1982 Wish you the best
@Anonynmous19 - I wish u the best too
Disregard. It has really helped my brain shift focus to the task rather than fear.
@Anonymous Thank you
@Anonymous Idk why i like body hair but than if i look at my childs arms and legs i worry is that bad but i cant just not look at my child. My anxiety is bad today. It says if i like body hair but see it on my child or someone else is that inappropriate or did i look inappropriately. But other parents without pocd dont even think this they just say whatever.
@Anonynmous19 My ocd hyperfocuses on body hair all the time than i worry that i notice it and is it bad or was my intent bad or why do i look at that
The way to get better is actually to stop avoiding your triggers. You actually should practice looking at your child, then allowing your head to fill up with OCD thoughts, and then keep going forward with your life. Are you in treatment? This is the type of thing you might conquer with therapy, because you will practice ERP therapy and start to try to not avoid children. My breathing OCD didn’t become manageable until I stopped avoiding scenarios that triggered it.
@Tea and Honey I appreciate it its hard because Im stressed. I was scrolling through kids youtube to pick a channel for my child to watch and than i worry after scrolling that i shouldnt scroll more in case i see kids. And i get intrusive thoughts. I kept scrolling and than chose a channel but worry was i acting on those thoughts to keep scrolling. So if i avoid it i am letting ocd control me if i fsce the trigger in this case keep casually scrolling tv chsnnels i feel guilty
@Anonynmous19 It’s okay. Let yourself feel guilty. It’s part of your training. You have to build a tolerance to feeling uncomfortable and guilty. I know I say this, but it’s hard for me too. However, it is the RIGHT answer. For example, my family was at a friend’s house today. I said something, and I was worried that I shouldn’t have used that particular word, and that I might be doomed to hell forever now. I felt like maybe I needed to correct myself and fix what I said. But I didn’t do it. I felt uncomfortable and like I was risking my eternal salvation by doing nothing. But I kept sitting there doing nothing. About 10 minutes later, I thought maybe I should go to the bathroom and think about this situation—and then maybe “fix” or correct what I said when I had some place to think clearly. But I didn’t go to the bathroom. I just stayed and talked with everyone for the rest of the evening —even though I was uncomfortable the whole time. I still feel uncomfortable (and I am home now). It might take some time for those feelings to go away. But this is just par for the course with OCD treatment. Being uncomfortable and feeling terrible and feeling fear and feeling guilty are all part of treatment. This is going to happen. This means you are doing something right. When you are practicing using your tools to conquer the OCD, just realize that you are going to have to sit through some awful emotions. BUT THAT IS THE PATH TO RECOVERY. Let yourself experience the guilt. It’s not real—just like the OCD is not real. The more you practice this, the easier it gets to defeat the OCD.
I'm 21 and eventually I would like to have a child. I am terrified about the fact that I could have sexual thoughts about them... So now I am filled with intrusive thoughts. How should I respond to these? "So yes, what if I will have intrusive thoughts about that?" But im terrified because a normal person shouldnt think about even that at all. I am so scared. I cannot respond "what if" because this is too serious and it makes me so bad if i respond "what if"
Havent been on in a while but todays rough. Had a major ocd episode. Its literally ocd number one million different iteration In summary i saw teen boys had intrusive thoughts. Looked away. Moved my foot which had a groinal and the pcd hyperfixation of them being in my side view and the additional intrusive thoughts saying “the false attraction and groinal non concordance means i aroused over them” followed by intense gut wrenching guilt sick to my stomach is what ocd is making me ruminate and provlem solve and feel guilt and stuck and question y intention even thiugh i know my true self. Also i tried doing what others have said by responding “maybe, maybe not” and just agreeing with the thought to shut it up. I know i wasnt arousing over thr boys and wasnt checking tbem out and im not a pedophile and not attracted to teen boys or boys/men period. I know groinals are a natural occurence and ocd symptom . I just had this random intense ocd episode. I was standing at the store and seen two teenage kids. I had intrusive thought they were handsome but i dont think they were handsome. I looked away but still seen them in the corner of my eyes and i adjust my foot which caused a groinal. I looked at them and their mom twice i think then looked away but my ocd hyperfocused on them in my peripheal view and since i had a groinal ocd had followed up with another intrusivr thought saying this means i aroused over them and its pedophilic and then i felt a gut wrenching disgust and guilt. I dont want any of this. I know im not a pedophile. I know i wasnt checking them out or arousing myself. I just was looking at people like normal and had intrusivr thoughts and groinals. I looked away as a compulsion but since i still seen them in my peripheal and didnt completely block them out ocd says it means i wanted to see them and chrck tbem out and arouse myself. This is ego dystonic. Its causing me extreme distress and gut wrenching guilt. I dont even think theyre handsome and im not a pedophile. Ocd makes me feel guilty and doubt if i did something wrong. These intrusive thoughts and feelings are intense It all happened so fast i saw the boys. I had the ocd thoughts. I looked twice. I felt anxiety so looked away but still seen thrm in my sode view and ocd was hyperfocused screaming to me theyre there like a lion was next to me. I simply moved my foot which caused a groinal reaction. Then ocd followed with the intrusivr thought “you aroused yourself youre a pedo” etc and then the gut wrenching guilt and dosgust followed but i know its ego dystonic and not who i am and ocd thought number one million because ive had this before. A compulsion would be closing my eyes or looking away so they wouldnt even be in my peripheal and since i only partially looked away ocd said it means i was doing something inappropriate but i knoe thats not true I know i was already feeling anxious because of the large crowd. I know i was just looking in their general direction nothing wrong and had intrusivr thoughts. Then i looked away at a guy next to me to distract myself from these intrusive thoughts and from the boys. Plus me looking away to the guy and all i did was move my foot and that motion plus the anxiety caused a groinal. So OCD said “you aroused over the boys= POCD” and since i basiclaly did a semi compulsion semi erp i looked away to avoid the kids but still could see them in my peripheal view thats when ocd played on it and said i didnt fully avoid them so i mustve aroused over them but i know its all ego dystonic. A real pedophile wouldnt feel guilt or anxiety or discomfort or gut wrenching feelings and wouldnt avoid looking. Theyd look and enjoy it. I was extremelt uncomfortable and the groinal was uncomfortable. I dont even think the boys were good looking. Its the gut wrenching guilt symptom of ocd and the intrusive thougjts that make it feel real and keep stuck in the loop In summary i saw teen boys had intrusive thoughts. Looked away. Moved my foot which had a groinal and the pcd hyperfixation of them being in my side view and the additional intrusive thoughts saying “the false attraction and groinal non concordance means i aroused over them” followed by intense gut wrenching guilt sick to my stomach is what ocd is making me ruminate and provlem solve and feel guilt and stuck and question y intention even thiugh i know my true self. Also i tried doing what others have said by responding “maybe, maybe not” and just agreeing with the thought to shut it up. I know i wasnt arousing over thr boys and wasnt checking tbem out and im not a pedophile and not attracted to teen boys or boys/men period. I know groinals are a natural occurence and ocd symptom
i’ve graduated and it just seems terrifying now because my pocd is flaring up again and i’m terrified of myself , i was planning to become a teacher but i just find disgust in even applying and I want to avoid children I have had these recent thing where i have intrusive thoughts and im scared to look at children because im scared i might look at their intimate areas and it’s killing me because i avoid looking at children or even have conversations with them because im scared of what my ocd does. Even when i try to conquer my fear of looking at children and just letting the fear sit, my OCD convinces me that i do look at them in a weird sexual way and I feel like ripping myself into shreds even saying that.
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