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You were kid, and that's a lot of pressure for a kid. Forgive yourself.
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What you did was very shit definetly. But you should try to forgive yourself.
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You need to forgive yourself for this. Was it a bad way to handle the situation? Yes. But you need to remember you were still a child at that point, and that losing your temper in one moment doesn’t make you a bad person or a bad sibling. At the end of the day, it sounds like overall you’ve been very caring and good to your younger sibling, and even the fact that you’re thinking about this so much shows that you care and love your sibling deeply.
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It’s very good that you understand that what you did was wrong and acknowledge what you could have done better
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everyone does shitty things when they’re young! the good thing is you recognize it was bad now and you learn and grow from your mistakes
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Why were you responsible for putting your sibling to bed, and not your parents?
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It is a long story, basically over the years my sister got used to sleeping in my bed because we shared a room and she’d always crawl in with me, so she would no longer go to bed on her own. Because it would sometimes take a few hours for her to fall asleep someone had to be laying with her or else she would scream, because I also had school in the morning and because we shared a room it just made more sense that I would be the person to lay with her until she fell asleep instead of my mom who could be up cleaning or spending time with my step dad.
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@treehouse It was not your responsibility at all to take care of your sister, whether it was convenient or not. You were not equipped emotionally and otherwise to take care of a child. It's not on you. Forgive yourself. Completely and totally.
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Thanks guys, I wasn’t looking for validation because I know it was wrong but I just wanted to share. From what I’ve seen on here, I think a lot of people with OCD can’t let things go, especially regrets. It’s horrible to feel this way because I’d like to believe I’ve redeemed myself as a sister and a friend but in reality I feel like this is something that will forever define me as a bad person. Sigh, I would love to try to work through some of these feelings in therapy but idk when I will be set up with a therapist. Thank you for listening
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I have a VERY similar OCD struggle. I’ve been told it fits under moral scrupulosity. I did somethingYEARS ago as a young teenager that I really regret and it randomly popped into my mind. I could/ still cannot stop obsessing over it. My therapist had me write a VERY detailed script of the incident with my worst feared consequences from the event. My hw was to record it and listen to it on repeat. I haven’t been able to get myself to do it yet. Anyways, my point is that I 100% empathize and we should motivate each other to do erp work. :)
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my cat was smelling my other cat's bottom so to get him away i like quick "slapped" with the dorsal of the hand on his face and i got afraid that i did too hard so i compulsively did it again with similar strenght that i used to check if he was hurt and i regret it, like it wasn't a hard slap meant to hurt, but i did that impulsively and maybe i exceeded a bit over the limit in which it doesn't hurt. like he definetely reacted but i don't know if he was hurt, like he reacted in the moment but nothiny else, and he's lovey dovey. i dont think he was hurt but i feel bad. because if i did it once as a mistake i shouldn't have done the same thing again. i feel like an abuser. there are many things that are happening to me and im getting overwhelmed and i dont know how much longer i can hold on. because one thing i can't do is to forgive myself over mistakes.
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Hi everyone, I’m new here, and I wanted to share my experience. I’ve been struggling for over a year now on obsessing over a mistake. And the rumination of the mistake I made has been overwhelming and exhausting in those two years. I feel like such a horrible person. At the time, I didn’t realize what I was doing would affect me so much. When I realized it was wrong, I just said I’ll never do it again, and I moved on. But then months later, I was reminded of what I did, and I felt like I did the worst thing in the world, and that my life will never be normal again. And ever since then, it’s been a constant thought. And it’s exhausting. I have been able to open up to my family and a close friend about it and their reactions were so nonchalant compared to what my brain has been telling me. They say it wasn’t even that bad, and that I shouldn’t be beating myself up. I tell them how badly I feel and they just act like it was nothing. I thought that would help, but my brain continues to tell me how horrible of a person I am and I obsess over this one mistake I made two years ago. I’ve learned from it, I’ve moved on, I’ve opened up about it, I’ve gotten reassurance, but yet it still eats at me. It’s constant some days. Where all I wanna do is lay down in a corner and never leave. I feel like my life will never be normal again and I’ll never experience happiness again. Whenever I smile or feel any type of joy my brain tells me to stop and reminds me that I’m a bad person and I don’t deserve to be happy. Even though everyone tells me what I did wasn’t even that bad. And that it doesn’t make me who I am. But guess it’s not enough and I’m really running out of options.
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My child was laying across me and every time I breathed a certain way I was getting a groinal sensation. I kept breathing like that anyways (ugh idk why), and then my mind told me I had hurt them that I might as well do something else because what's more. So idk why or what overcame me other than the thought of doing it and causing another feeling (I literally had to question what to do during this and the only thing I could come up with was to move my elbow towards her groin area) but it came across my mind to elbow my child, and I elbowed their crotch or side area. Which caused another unwanted groinal sensation. Then I began FREAKING smooth out and asked my child to move. Then I've been stressing since. I feel like as a mom I don't deserve to be theirs anymore. Idk what overcame me, and in the moment, it felt like I wanted to move my elbow, but I know that can also be my OCD speaking. Right? I clearly regret it all and hate myself. I would never intentionally hurt my child; I don't know what happened in my head when this happened. I was doing SO well! Is this my POCD that I've been diagnosed with by my OCD specialized therapist? Just a struggling mom who used to be the best of the best. I'm very depressed by this. Idk what to do with myself. I live in regret now, and I just wish it would've never ever happened. I can't stop ruminating and being depressed thinking I don't deserve anything.
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