- Date posted
- 38w
I need insight on something
(cw: intrusive thoughts about sexual assault, incest, pretty long paragraph) For a while it seems like I've developed a new obsession, in the past my OCD revolved around me hurting other ppl and being a terrible person, but now it has switched and what I'm obsessing about is being hurt by others. In the first case i had the cpmfort to know that i was the one that controlled what i do and what I don't, but with this i have no control over, i can never guess when someone might think about hurting me, and it seems this obsession has latched onto an specific person: my younger brother. For context, my brother is 16, and he's a very physically affective person, likes to hug, likes to annoy others, while on the other hand I'm very touch repulsed, i like hugs and whatnot but on a much lesser measure, and whenever i pushed him away bc i was uncomfortable i think he believed that he was just annoying me, but recently there's been a series of events that have escalated this situation and i have no one but my own paranoia to blame. These last few days I've experimente very bad episodes of panic that caused me to go sleep with my mom bc i didn't feel safe in my room, and now i feel bad bc i feel like my brother might have catched that, and this week we all left to stay at my sister's home while she was away, during our stay (my brother decided to leave before us after two days) i talked with my mom about how i wamted my brother to leave behind some games of his and to understand that he wasn't just annoying me but making me uncomfortable, she talked with him and told him that i just didnt like being touched and i believe he understood, but that same night while he was playing around the house he asked (and i hope he was saying it jokingly) "are you scared of me" to which i responded with another joke (something like "the only thing i fear about you is your bad breath") but now i can't stop thinking about that... Today i arrived home to pick up some stuff before i had to leave again, and i saw that the door connecting our rooms (which has a whole where the knob should go) had a plastic sheet taped on top of it on my side, i asked my brother if he did to which he said no, but told me to leave it there (it turned out that my grandpa had put it there bc he was scared my brother's friends could spy on me... Even though that has never happened) i told my brother i considered taking it off bc i felt it was unnecessary, ( i know I'm paranoid and I don't want anything else feeding into it) to which he denied, even after i told him it didnt bother me not to have it, he insisted it was so that i could keep my lights on without them bothering him, then i told him that there's still cracks between the door and the frame where the lights sneaks in and he just dismissed me and told me to leave it there... I know all of this sounds redundant, but i dont know what to do, or who to talk to, i don't want my brother to feel like i fear him or think badly of him, he already deals with feeling pushed aside and neglected by other family members, i don't want to fuel that, I'm older than him, i should know better... How can i deescalate this? Am i just overthinking everything?