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18+ only I was already struggling from every possible OCD symptom and having a groinal just from pure stress but then I saw an ad, I didn't realise what it was at first, just skipped past a random ad before doing a double take and reporting it but it definitely made it all worse and I'm ruminating about it and all these intrusive thoughts and images are running through my head and I'm really resisting the urge to do a checking compulsion to something safe to disprove the groinals and intrusive thoughts but I know it'll just make it worse and OCD will say I did the compulsion for a made up reason. I'm still doing other compulsions like scratching my head or picking my lip so I'm not doing a very good job of not doing every compulsion. My intrusive thoughts are so much more frequent, and I think this may be related to ADHD but I keep having intrusive memories of disgusting "jokes" or things like dogwhistles and stuff. Just yesterday I saw someone post about Batman with a picture of that monkey with a cuddly toy as his mum and then found out they follow a bunch of people who wrote about him and his adoptive sons in terrible ways. Then after that, someone posted a gif of Catwoman and was being weird so I blocked them, but I got concerned about whether I should report them so I checked their following and there wasn't anything bad from what I could see based on their names and bios but their pinned post was kinda weird and I thought crossed the line so I had to report them as well just in case.

Kye!

Date posted: 2d

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jpell0w92

Date posted: Yesterday

Hello! So this is common in terms of how our brains respond to something that seems abnormal or in our cases triggering. For example I suffer from POCD, a thought or even an image can trigger anxiety to which it attaches itself to the OCD subtype, I have in the past have seen things that have triggered my anxiety that I spiral, it’s important to remember that ocd wants you to doubt yourself and the experience of what you may have seen or heard etc. reporting something is like a form of like temporary relief, it only worsens when we question if we should have. That’s the doubt part. Hopefully this isn’t complete reassurance, which also doesn’t help ocd, but “monitoring and policing the internet” is impossible, why because “click click” and then we end up in a more so downward spiral. Plus on the flip side from what I have been told companies use systems to monitor such content so it doesn’t interfere with guidelines and policies. Yes ocd will make you doubt this altogether, I recommend listening to watching Chrissie Hodges videos on ocd topics and subs types, great insight on the subjects.

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