- Date posted
- Yesterday
Is this my OCD?
NSFW content warning For the past 3 weeks I’ve been spiralling 24/7 about the years when I was in a long distance relationship with my now husband. I would make a bunch of nsfw photos and videos for him and we would make videos together for when we were apart for a long time. This stopped years ago when we moved in together and we have since deleted the content from anywhere we actively had it stored. My problem is that I’m obsessed with the idea that I could have been hacked somehow and the content could be online without my knowledge. I never had any signs of being hacked or having a virus and I had 2FA on my accounts (most of them at least, I can’t remember exactly it was too long ago), but I had multiple accounts and maybe had some that got abandoned that I don’t have access to. I used to do virus scans and never had a problem with a virus but what if I didn’t realise I had one. I’m also obsessed with the idea that somehow this content could have ended up on someone else in my households devices somehow, thoughts like “what if i shared this folder by mistake” “what if i accidentally put it on an SD card or memory stick”. I’ve been honest with my family about this and I’ve even gone through all the family photos (as best I can, there are thousands and some glitched and were unavailable to view) and found nothing, but I’m scared that there could be stuff on my old laptop hard drives at my parents house and whilst I know they would never snoop I’m scared they could get robbed and the hard drives taken but I don’t know if digging them out and erasing them would be compulsive? I’m also struggling hugely with false memory that has worked its way into this overall fear. What if I recorded something bizarre that I didn’t even send to my husband and don’t remember? Everyone I’ve spoken to including my husband and mom think I am being irrational and say this is my OCD but I am struggling too much to believe there is no real threat so I’m not avoiding my compulsions because my brain is making me feel like this is an active threat. Is ERP even effective for something like this that has basis in reality? I feel like my life is completely over from this fear, sometimes I think I am being irrational to put my life on hold and have it destroyed over something i have no proof of happening but I have considered suicide over this.