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Play with your niece,stop avoiding her let the thoughts be there,they are automatically generated they are not from you,Do not react with fear,Stop analyzing, ruminating and try to find their purpose,You shall have tremendous anxiety,guilt,shame and all sorts of feelings that’s part of OCD.Go to parks toy stores and let the thoughts be there ,They are false.Expose yourself to fears it is your only way out.These thoughts will come but don’t forget you are opposite of them.Don’t react to them with fear.The more you react with fear the more your brain ? register these thoughts as important and it will send you more of them inorder to protect you.TRY VERY HARD NOT TO PAY ATTENTION TO THEM AND GO ON WITH YOUR DAY.RECOVERY IS POSSIBLE AND FOLLOW YOUR VALUES MY BROTHER INSTEAD OF YOUR THOUGHTS ?
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I just got home from residential and sleep w my mom when I have a hard time (20 yr old female). Her hand touched me while she was sleeping and I had a full on panic attack. Did I like it? Did I force her? Was I aroused? It’s so hard. You’re not alone, and you’re not a problem or predator. It’s ocd
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It can be so overwhelming though
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@Lynnrich Agree but with more exposures acceptance mindfulness and no self loothing it will get better.It is an everyday practice.Is it easy?HELL NO but things will get better
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I can totally relate. The thoughts race around my head like someone else has control of my mind. Mine started years ago with hocd, but now it’s gone into pocd with specifically my 2 year old granddaughter as the focal point. When I get theses thoughts I want to kill myself. It is the most disgusting thing I’ve ever thought of
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My brother used to walk down the middle of the road to avoid pavements where he might brush into someone. Said he preferred to get run over than risk brushing against a young girl. Even when doing that he would still ask for reassurance that he hadnt made contact with anyone.
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His behaviour was 10x more extreme than any other case I’ve come across & now he’s almost completely cured.
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I hate being touched I had family gatherings last 2 days both days I broke down contamination ocd cant touch people or things or objects or they cant touch me causes massive problems . I'm 44 years old had this 23 years but this theme is new since july I bloody hate it . Hope ur ok it's so hard when around others
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Hello inkblack, Please know that my heart goes out to you. Thank you so much for your courage and strength in sharing your post. I'm a 39 y/o male who has suffered from POCD and Harm OCD for many, many years. OCD is an atrocious illness, and it has robbed me of so much. I'm determined to beat this. Through love, support, medicine, CBT, and ERP, I hope to eventually get to the point in my life where OCD takes a back seat, instead of being a main driver. I have taken Paroxetine (Paxil), 30mg/day for a long time, and it has been good for me. You may want to inquire about with your doctor to see if it may help you. Be assured of my prayers and thoughts. Wishing you much healing and wellness.
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In health, Determined
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Hi NOCD community, I was hoping to get some advice from fellow sufferers. In December we welcomed the first baby into the family, my beautiful niece. Since then, my POCD has been awful, which I know is probably very normal. Last week, in the middle of a very high stress day in my family, I was changing my niece and as usually happens, I got intrusive thoughts about awful things people do to babies when changing them. The thoughts were so harrowing to have as I was also changing her at the exact same time, and I felt my hands just quickly want to finish patting her dry before putting her nappy on, and for some reason, my heart dropped with that hand movement, because I was afraid that I had acted out the awful thoughts in my head, in a moment of mania because my morals, values and heart do not align with abuse of any kind, especially to children. My niece is my everything, and I know I would never want harm to come to her in any way, shape or form. I love her endlessly. I am having therapy, but have only had a couple of sessions. But, I cannot shake the 'what if'. I am tortured over trying to remember what it was I did that made my heart drop, but I can't, and its getting fuzzier and fuzzier the more I try to remember. Could anyone offer any advice on this please? Thank you.
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Let me start by prefacing that I developed ocd as postpartum ocd after having my first child. I had harm and pocd. I had it on and off for years and then it just eventually went away completely for many years until recently after a stressful life event. Now that it’s back it again targets my children but now my grandchildren also. It’s been horrible and makes me pull away from them. Last night my 6 year old granddaughter threw up in the car when my daughter was about to take her home so my daughter brought her back in the house and asked me to clean her up while she cleaned her car. I had some anxiety about it because of my ocd but I couldn’t say no to helping so I opened the bathroom door and my granddaughter was standing in her underwear waiting for me to clean and dress her. Everything was fine and normal but then for some reason, I have no idea why, I looked down at her chest area. I immediately got so upset and didn’t know why I looked there and now my ocd is saying it’s because i’m a monster. I tried to tell myself it’s just normal human behavior when someone is standing there naked that you look where you shouldn’t simply because it’s just there in front of you but I feel horrible. I don’t feel any inappropriate way about her or any child but my ocd is saying it was inappropriate. Has anyone else been through this?
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POCD I was holding my nephew, he's a newborn, and he was getting hungry so he started squirming around and grazed my chest (yes I was fully clothed). Of course, that caused anxious groinals.. It didn't feel bad in the moment just very very anxious feelings, and without thinking, I was holding his head still right there and I was moving it closer in that spot (at least felt that way) to make the feeling continue I guess. It felt like an urge because of the groinals. It was such an anxious all over my body feeling. I was so anxious and triggered by that feeling. It's like my groinals were so intense I automatically leaned into them? So I ended up having another groinal. After that I put the baby down and realized what had happened. Did I just hurt my nephew without consciously realizing it till after? Is this OCD?
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