Criminal shows/Horror movies

does anyone else get really triggered when watching stuff to do with serial killers, p3dos, r@pists etc. I literally start to compare myself and check to see if i share any qualities with them. Ita really scary cause i really like this show Criminal minds, and i absolutely adore the characters, but its hard watching something i like cause of all the g0re and stuff. Not to mention all the thoughts that are convincing me i like the horrible stuff. Someone tell me if tou relate..

Harm OCD

Nica

Date posted: 5w ago

It used to be, but I don’t have any issue with them now due to ERP. Now I watch that stuff for self ERP regularly.

Yannina

Date posted: 5w ago

Hi !! I relate you, criminal minds is my favorite show and since I was diagnosed with ocd it has become very hard to watch because I feel like a horrible person I send you all my support🤍

khloe!!

Date posted: 5w ago

@Yannina Thank you 🥹💕💕

CalicoCat

Date posted: 5w ago

Yes, for as long as I can remember. I can only watch those kinds of shows or movies if I am in a strong headspace.

lil13x

Date posted: 5w ago

honestly i use to be quite open to crime shows and stuff before my harm OCD but now thats one of my main themes i avoid anything to do with crime!! even had to stop watching greys anatomy because of the surgical tools 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Holl1

Date posted: 5w ago

I use to love watching horror movies/crime documentaries but one horror film triggered my harm OCD and haven’t watched one since, so you’re not alone.

OneDayAtATimee

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 5w ago

When I had Harm OCD years ago- I was terrified of doing exposure work where I purposefully had to watch these things. I used to avoid them so hard previously. The exposures themselves were so scary and I remember crying during them and trying so hard not to compulse. But after going through ERP therapy, I made such huge progress that I started to watch killer documentaries simply out of boredom in my free time 😄 I would paint while having a killer podcast on for background noise. I could simply see the videos as interesting stories (I don’t recommend watching all that negativity often tho). Sometimes I would get an intrusive thought while watching them but it’s rare and it passes fast. Your life can turn a complete 180 after ERP

TBLbolts2025!!

Date posted: 5w ago

Suggestibility, Suggestibility, Suggestibility it is a common trait of OCD. The same school of thinking applies to health anxiety as well. Someone mentions hypertension, cancer, diabetes, schizophrenia and bang my mind is convincing me I have all of it. Over and over again. Where it becomes disordered is when you try to prove to yourself that you actually don’t have what the mind tells us is real. Working with an ERP specialist is the best decision I’ve ever made. What you’re experiencing is extremely common.

fuzzy_caterp...

Date posted: 5w ago

I quit watching a lot of movies and shows like that because it triggered me so bad

Anonymous

Date posted: 5w ago

ugh i feel the same way, i get triggered by similar shows or by reading posts on reddit/listening to drama on tiktok. I know I need to stop for my own good and to enjoy these things at a slower pace but its so interesting to me at the same time

emmahitam

Date posted: 5w ago

yes i get exactly the same 2 weeks ago i was watching a crime drama series about a guy who struggled with anxiety but ended up getting involved in dr*gs and then mass murd3r and because i struggling with anxiety my ocd has got me in this infinate obsession of rewatching him and comparing myself to him

🎀🧸🩷🤍

Date posted: 25w ago

Can someone help me??

I love Terrifier and I love horror movies but I have these intrusive thoughts or fear ever since Terrifier 3 came out and I feel extremely bad about cause it’s not about me. Every time I hear someone talk negatively about the director and creator my brain goes “what if you support that?” Or “What if they’re actually sick in the head for making that movie?” Or “what if you’re a bad person for liking movies with so much blood and gore” or something like “the director is a bad person for making a movie like that you should not be watching that” or “you shouldn’t like that character” and etc. I feel so bad😭 and my ocd brain is asking “is he a bad person” “should I not enjoy this?” Etc. like I can’t enjoy shit with negitave Nancy’s and Joe’s on the internet and shit😞😭

🎀🧸🩷🤍

Date posted: 26d ago

Random OCD?? Anyone else get this?

I love horror movies and would watch them random sometimes even Terrifier cause art is my new favorite character. I just felt like I was a bad person for this⁉️ I don’t support his actions but I like his goofy faces he makes. I can’t enjoy anything no more Literally me rn in life

Anonymousssssss

Date posted: 9d ago

Can someone please offer words of advice :(

Why are things so real the first time they’re in my mind and then when I think about it later it’s easier for me to be like wtf?? I was watching a movie earlier and the young girl had developed more in the chest area than the last movie and I felt the desire to check her out so I did. Then later I let myself imagine her having sex and I liked it. But now looking back I’m like ew. The boys in the movie have also developed as the movie went on and I couldn’t help but think that in their real life they’ve probably woken up to boners and s*men and stuff. And looking back it’s just ugh. Idk if it’s sexual relevance but I genuinely let myself indulge in these thoughts and groinal responses and I remember thinking to myself I don’t want to be attracted to little kids and how do I stop myself (everyone has attractive qualities so in younger boys I see man like qualities). Idk I need help. I wouldn’t type this out if I truly believe I was messed up but I’m still scared

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