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my advice is to accept the things that happened and realize that you cannot change the past. easier said than done but part of ocd is accepting things and living with uncertainty and doubt. maybe you should feel shame and guilt, or maybe you should just move forward and allow yourself to be happy. there is nothing we can do to change the past or change the ways we hurt other people. we just move forward and do better. you keeping yourself in this cycle does nothing but make you miserable. what we do as children is not a reflection of who we are as adults if we grow, change, and accept ourselves for our mistakes.
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I am half asleep as i just am waking up, so im sorry if this comment is messy. But friend, you aren’t alone. Many of us, sadly, were stripped of innocence that we had as kids. Whether it was from trauma or early exposure to that type of content, it is not ur fault. It says a lot of good things about you that you feel bad and you feel guilty, you clearly aren’t that bad person. But don’t loathe in shame and guilt. I made some terrible gross mistakes as a kid. And it carried into my teenage years in the forms of intrusive thoughts and also weird things by myself etc. We have similar stories. Please give yourself grace. Kids minds can be corrupted in 0.5 seconds… it’s terrible so please don’t blame yourself. I go through cycles of shame with this same topic but I’ve learned to give myself grace. If you had a friend telling you this or even one of your siblings you wouldn’t be judging them the same way you are judging yourself. I’m sorry you were exposed to that stuff and im sorry it led you to act in certain ways. I’m also sorry for your siblings and anyone you’ve hurt and that’s hurt you. It’s all sad but it doesn’t make you evil. As the above comment reads, this isn’t a reflection of you and you just move forward and do better. easier said than done but it will happen☺️ Wish you the best friend on your journey of healing. ❤️🩹
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The comments above have said everything perfectly. You aren't alone 🫂
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I really wish you well!! I’m in the same boat here with the same thoughts :)) I don’t know how to stay alive with this things either
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It will be a journey for you, and I am hoping you can heal from all this. A lot of it is not your fault. I hope you can find people to really help you process it
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It’s not your fault that you were exposed to content so young. That was a failure of the adults in your life to protect you. When kids act out after exposure, that’s a normal reaction. It sounds like you were abused first—at least by this exposure—if not by more. You can’t blame a child for acting out of that. Yes!!! You can have forgiveness!!! God will completely forgive you!!! And good people will forgive you as well. It will be really important to forgive yourself too. And receive grace over yourself and your life.
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@Jo02 It’s okay please try as much as you can to forgive yourself!! Jesus has already done what it needs to be done for you to have forgiveness. By his love you’re saved.. so keep in mind that it doesn’t matter the past now… he loves you and forgives you and I know how hard that is to believe, specially in moments of so much pain and guilt and suffering that no one sees, (I’m crashing out in the same way ) but he sees ur heart.. please don’t give up on the idea of love, his love is enough
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@Jo02 Yes, abuse and early exposure to content actually effect developing brains a lot. It is trauma to the brain and psyche. Then sexual stuff comes out in children’s (or even teens’) behavior. That’s why I say that a lot that happened is not your fault. You were victimized in certain ways—and you were too young to interpret what was happening. Yes, God forgives you!!! His word says that He will forgive you, so you can believe it!!! I am a person who is working every day to believe the promises of God. When I can believe what God says, my OCD symptoms are alleviated (because my OCD is all about fear and doubt). (I do have trouble doing this, by the way, lol. 😂) You have taken the first steps toward healing by acknowledging the past!! That’s great!!! Keep taking steps and involving other people to help you. You will need the help of other people along the way . 💙💙 Big hugs. If you could just imagine a friend of yours (maybe your girlfriend) going through what you have been through, try to think of how much compassion and love you would show her. Then try to give that same love to yourself :):)
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And delete this app !! I see how it’s not helping me at all cuz all I keep doing is seek for reassurance. That’s not healthy
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I’m about to do the same !! Cuz I can’t afford the therapy here
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18+! When I was child I was VERY hyper-sexual I’m not sure when it started. All I remember I was being very sexual with other kids at the time, I think I thought it was normal and nobody was stopping me either at the time so I had no idea I was in the wrong. I think I had to be 13 or 14 where it hit me out of nowhere that I was wrong. The floodgate of anxiety was horrible I had so much guilt it was eating me up. I had to stay home, I quit going to family gatherings, quit hanging out with new friends I’ve made, I cried a lot. Til this day I think about it everyday and the amount of guilt on my chest. If I could go back and change it all I would. I wish I could have a better understanding of me and why I was doing it. It’s the guilt and anxiety I deal with every single day. I never meant to hurt anyone.
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I’m sharing this bc I need advice or even support from anyone who can relate. If you can’t relate and don’t think you’ll say anything helpful or kind pls don’t comment anything… I’ve been struggling with somethings that’s making me question myself. There has been moments while self pleasuring when I get intrusive thoughts, in those moments it feels like I’m enjoying or even self pleasuring myself bc of the thought. Right after I immediately have an anxiety attack and my HEART drops bc it feels terrible I feel like a disgusting monster :( ppl have told me I haven’t done a bad bc of how intense my guilt and panic are but I keep thinking that MAYBE I made a horrible decision in the moment and the guilt is just realising that it’s just wrong this doesn’t make sense to me because I’ve always told myself that I would never act on this in 1 million years and I’ve been known that these things are wrong so I’m just like constantly questioning myself these feelings and exact same situation has happened two times already I even promised myself that I wouldn’t act on anything beforehand and yeah, I still felt like I did act on my thought during my alone time I’m genuinely convinced that I’m a horrible and it’s even got into the point where I don’t wanna be here anymore and I don’t even think this is my OCD :( tbh
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Hi, I’m new here!! I’m praying I don’t get judged for this. But, back in late May of 2022 ( literally right before I graduated high school), I added this one random girl from my school on Snapchat. She posted something about a graduation party , so I swiped up on her story basically saying how I can’t believe we’re almost graduated. She replied and we had a really short and simple conversation. The next day ( i believe) , we started talking a lot , and I just so happened to see her at the highschool when we were grabbing our graduation outfits and doing the rehearsal. When I saw her irl, I kinda got turned off ( I heard she was kinda crazy) , and on top of that , she was a little ugly irl. I remember seeing her Snapchat bio , and she was close friends with my female cousin ( a year younger than me) , who I happened to experiment sexually with when I was 10-11 years old. I remember going to work later that day and having sort of a lightbulb flick thought ( it wasn’t a good thought though) , what if my cousin told her about what happened when we were younger? So I started to kind of panic and immediately distanced myself from that girl. I also experimented sexually with one of my female friends when I was 10-11 , and from that day onwards, I’ve been pretty much living in paranoia and a little bit of guilt about someone finding out and my life being ruined . On top of that, It’s gotten worse to now sometimes I wonder if a girl I added off of quick add ( Snapchat) is underage even if they told me they were 18+ or had 18 and above in their bio, and I get so much guilt and anxiety about that. I even had a quick thought last February on what if I did something inappropriate with my younger cousin when I was 15-16 but I just can’t exactly remember when it happened , and it still eats me alive when I think about it, because I don’t know if it happened or not. I’m sorry for the long vent, I just wish I felt normal again. No matter how much I try to do things that old me used to do, life always feels “ off”. I always kept the top part about when I was younger a secret up until early (ish ) 2024, then I vented to one of my best friends and he told me that that’s a normal thing to do at a young age. Since then, I have told multiple friends and they all say they did similar stuff, but my brain just can’t accept that. Please help me, I quite literally overthink everything nowadays. 2021 was the last full year that I felt normal ( coincidentally, the best year of my life so far) . It’s not just about sexual related things either, sometimes I’ll wonder if I messed up something at work or hit a car while driving/hit someone and drove off. I just wanna live my life how I was supposed to live it after highschool ( carefree and happy) before whatever it is ( I think it’s ocd) hit me unexpectedly. Thanks to anyone who read this , I just needed to pour it out regardless of how negative I felt typing this, I hope someone can relate , because I feel so alone in my head at times.
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