Can someone please just comment me anything:(

Feeling so lonely and lost. Is this anything like what can happen in pocd? I’m a teacher and I was with pre-teen student. I got that thought to think something even worse than my previous obsession to get rid of my anxiety. So I focused the features that I liked with that boy and found him somehow attractive and whats came to my head was ”I could do something with that boy”. I wasn’t even anxious in that moment. After half year I remembered this and freaked out. I really don’t know what I felt in that situation. I just feel I made my self attracted to that boy and can’t tell if I literally thought that I could do something. In worst days I’m scared that I acted somehow even though i don’t know how.

Riana bean

Date posted: 18h

Pedos don't hold back. They don't feel bad about their attractions. Ruminating won't solve anything. If you're afraid of doing something, it literally means you are opposed to the thought of doing it. Just telling you facts. I don't know what it's like for you so I cant tell you what it is. But you have to have faith in yourself and move through life with your morals and values even if it is hard. That's just how it works.

Amason22

Date posted: 18h

It sounds like for that half year you were able to treat it just like anyone without OCD would, "it's a random thought among thousands of others I have" and moved on. Now maybe due to stress and anxiety your OCD has decided to latch onto this and torment you. Write it down or say it out loud, exactly how your brain is using it to torment you and just sit with that for 20 minutes. The more you try to answer the unanswerable the worse you will feel.

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