- Date posted
- 34w
Anything I do triggers me
I stumbled across some adult women’s gym shorts on Amazon and saw really attractive women on there that I liked seeing. Everything was fine til I saw this product that looked like white adult women’s shorts and I was trying to decipher wether or not it was men’s product or women’s (I’m into Women). I tap it and of course (with my bad luck), I saw the word “boys”. I legitimately felt sick to my stomach and closed as fast as I could. I was under the impression that it was adult clothing, given that I was seeing adult clothing all over my page on Amazon and I’d get recommended similar stuff. I had just come out of a therapy session and I didn’t mention the word kids out loud in my session when talking about my POCD with my therapist. I know phones do that thing where they listen to keywords and then you start seeing what you were talking about online or in advertisements. I went back to see if it was gone but then it was still there under the word “girls” and I thought I had seen wrong before so I checked again and NOPE, still had to do with children article of clothing. I tried to get reassurance but it only made things worse. When I think the word girls I think of adults but I wasn’t think when describing clothing you have to mention the word Women’s in order for the system to understand you. This whole situation just made me sick and made my POCD worse. What my therapist tells me is that if I really was a p*do, then I wouldn’t have clicked out of there or have been sick to my stomach or thinking about it at all. I just can’t help it and right now I just feel lots of anxiety. I have a girlfriend and she knows my OCD and I just feel a bit awful. I know deep down I was under the impression I wanted adult women’s clothing and I didn’t search up anything insinuating minors, let alone children. I think these compulsions make things so much worse because I’ll eventually see something that triggers me