- Date posted
- 13w
i need help please
can someone help im confused by my actions adults only please preferably women (im a woman and feel more okay talking to women)
can someone help im confused by my actions adults only please preferably women (im a woman and feel more okay talking to women)
I’m a woman, I can try to help ❤️
@anonanon5 do you have experience with pocd or incest thoughts? i’m scared and feel sick to my stomach and need help. i’d talk to my partner about these things but i’m afraid of what they might think
@helpmeeee_ - I don't currently, but I have had both of those themes in the past (like 2-3 years ago). So I understand and I won't judge you!
@anonanon5 last year some time i was scrolling on facebook and someone had their baby as their profile picture. i got scared and wondered if i had any groinal responses so i started to recheck if i did by forcing groinal responses. i kind of zoned out while checking and then i got thoughts like “why am i still checking? this feels intentional. am i doing this because of the baby?” and i immediately freaked out because i guess it felt like i had done something very inappropriate. i ended up moving on but i had hours and hours worth of panicking. well, recently it’s resurfacing and i’m scared i had bad intentions and i’m wondering why i kept checking over and over and wondering why i didn’t stop. recently i have been getting uncomfortable inappropriate thoughts about a family member and earlier i heard them say something and i was worried that what they said was attractive to me and i got a thought like “what if i tense up? (force groinal response)” then i felt my anxiety disappear and i tensed up. immediately after i wondered why i did that and felt scared and confused. idk what to do and i feel very trapped. also just now the family member walked by and as i was standing up to avoid them i got a groinal response from standing up and im worried i did it on purpose. it feels like i purposely made the sensation happen. im trying to make it happen again and it wont. when standing up ive been trying to “push” so i dont experience any sensations down there but it doesnt work all the time and some sensations feel intentional like just now
@helpmeeee_ - So these are definitely checking compulsions, which are some of the most nefarious compulsions in my opinion. This is because checking often involves actions. Like you described: looking at something on purpose, tensing up, etc. Because you do an action to check, the anxiety that comes back on you later is so much worse and more powerful, since you have that "evidence" of you doing an action. You are dedicating a lot of energy and thought to trying to figure out your thoughts, actions, responses, emotions, and also how your anxiety reacts to them. When you spend this much time thinking and analyzing your own mind, you lose touch of your true desires and values. How you can get out of this is by promising yourself that you will stop engaging with the thoughts and feelings. For example, you said that you changed the way you stood up to avoid the groinal responses. What that does is give more power and meaning to the feeling. Instead, live your life as you normally would and RESIST going back to things to check, changing the way you move, etc. If you are able to resist those things, you take away their power and slowly go back to the peace you once knew. Plus, you avoid the extra anxiety and guilt that follow a checking compulsion. Currently, you're engaging with the OCD -- which isn't unethical or wrong -- but it will make it worse. And it will give you anxiety.
@anonanon5 thank you so much, i’ll try it’ll just be difficult to stop everything i’m tired of over analyzing everything. tomorrow i have an appointment to get medication so i’m hoping things can calm down soon after i get my medication
@helpmeeee_ - It is super hard. I tell myself that either I have to deal with the anxiety now from not compulsing, or the anxiety later that comes after the compulsion with is always worse. So you gotta pick the less bad anxiety option! Getting on lexapro changed the game for me. It helped with my OCD a lot. I hope it works out for you!
i'm positive i was attracted to women before this got a thought when i was high thought really really deeply into and changed my life now im 24/7 scared im gay ive always been attracted to girls but early in my sexual life where im at ive always got with girls and seemed a little disapointed after would love help and to hear past experiences
I’ve always been straight my whole life and I’ve never considered being different nor have i ever had attraction to women but lately I’ve been going through a lot of different thoughts that definitely feel unlike me. When I was a kid and I don’t remember how old I was but im sure like 7 or 8 and my cousin that was I very close to had me do inappropriate things to her that I didn’t really know anything about at that time. After that happened to me I knew it was wrong and I felt so bad and disgusting and scared but at the time I didn’t really know anything and I remember when my mom would drop me over my grandmas house while she would work, I’d take my grandma’s phone and I looked up kissing videos and I saw the kissing scene from Jennifer’s body and looking back on it I just feel so much shame and confusion bc it certainly feels embarrassing. My cousin always liked girls but I never did. I loved sitting and watching Disney movies preferably princess and the frog and wanting to be a princess getting married to a prince just like in all the movies. I knew who I was from a very young age and that never changed about me. When I learned what porn was at an older age, I started becoming hyper sexual so I watched tutorials videos of women to learn how to pleasure myself. When I was a kid and to now I’ve never looked at women in that way. I’ve had best friends and sleepovers it’s never been anything sexual, romantic, or intimate. Just simply innocent friendships and hangouts. When I got to high school that’s when i started remembering what happened to me and i remember how the girls would talk about their first kisses and i remembered my sa and how I felt so scared to say anything to anyone bc I didn’t want people to think badly of me simply bc my first kiss was like that so I would simply just not say anything. Lately I’ve been having obsessive thoughts out of nowhere wondering if my sexuality has changed or if im bi or is it just my thoughts? I’ve always had ocd and even in school, the kids would pick at me because I always eat my food in order and by the lightest color. But lately it’s gotten worse. It’s like I’ve never had thoughts like this nor have I ever been like this. Not even when I was a child. And humans question themselves of course but this feels like something different. I’ve gotten distant from my best friend who’s also a girl and I’ve just cut off social media and female friend relationships at all because for some reason my brain tells me that it’s “gay” to even hug your friends or hold their hands anymore like you used to do when you were kids. I even got to a point where I would watch women porn and try to masturbate just to see if I was attracted to it or not like that’s how bad the thoughts got. It felt like an evil voice was in my head trying to convince me and sweet talk me to do and enjoy those disgusting things even when my body didn’t want to. I eventually had confided in my bf about it because he was also a victim of sa and so he helped me through it and I stopped doing it but then and my bf (now ex) broke up a couple days ago and now ive been dealing with this alone which feels like the hardest part for me. So I’ve texted my bff a lot to catch up because I’ve been distant dealing with this and I was just checking my phone awaiting for her responses to my texts because she tends to type slow and usually I never think anything of it because I used to check my phone all the time when I would await my boyfriends reply or simply just a text from him and so now im having thoughts like “why am I awaiting her texts” “do I like my friend?” Its just so many obsessive thoughts and so much overthinking that I am getting tired of because It’s been going on for months so I know this is a lot but please if anyone can please help me I beg, it would be such a great help appreciated bc this has became a really big impact on my life and not in a good way lol. Thank you !!
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