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a lot of my pocd has been centered around gronial response and false memory
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Hey bam123, mine is related around false memory too, here for you, x
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@bambi-lou thank you. you too!
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@bam123 How do you cope?
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@bambi-lou the most important thing for me is that i trust my true character and morals, and not the ocd trying to convince otherwise. i’m still struggling with it but right now i’m in therapy and soon going to see a psychiatrist! what about you?
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I have a lot of groinal reponses more than just thoughts this is my second time going to this theme I’m trying to do more exposure this time
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Yep I’m the same. I wrote the real memories down and I re read them when I freak out. But it still doesn’t make that guilt feeling go away. Scary what our brains can do.
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I’m 19 years old and live in japan studying Japanese. I have been trying to self help myself to victory all year long and did great but when I moved back to japan I started obsessing over japnese because I “need to understand” for my girlfriend who speaks japanese only. And that led me to worrying my ass off about if I still understand English still or if it’s too late which is obviously hilarious. And I have been obsessing over the recovery process in general and turning a lot of things mentally, like thoughts I think to myself, into reassurances and compulsions when otherwise they would be already. My life style has been pretty shit here to and really stressful but I’m working on it. I also want to goto college for all of this so I overthink the whole recovery process too much when I already know what’s best for me and have done it before 100 times. I just downloaded this app btw lol
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Being alone here for like months, in one way was the worse thing I could do for me, but in another it was a blessing because exposure is Litterally all around me.
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Anyone with pocd in the subset of teens/ fear of being attracted to teens have any advice? I never see anyone talking about it and it’s making me go a lil cray lmao
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hi i’m feeling a little discouraged and was just wondering if anyone wanted to share their experiences with pocd like how real it is for them and maybe some recovery stories like what that looks like and what helped you get there and how they are now i just had my therapy appointment and am kinda down bc i have to stick with uncertainty and that really bothers me… but anyone wanna share?
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this is a long post, so just skip to the bottom if you only want to see my question pocd has been one of my themes for about 15 yrs now. i used to be so scared i would hurt a kid or that i was sexually attracted to kids which was reinforced by groinals. i'm at the point now where i know without a doubt that i'm not sexually attracted to kids and will never hurt a kid, and i very rarely get groinals anymore however since i overcame that part of pocd, now my ocd has latched hard onto worrying other ppl will think i'm a p*. for example, yesterday i was carrying my paddleboard to the boat launch, and a grandpa and his granddaughter were walking near me. i purposefully wasn't looking in their direction, but then the guy commented on my paddleboard. the girl started talking to me too about how she also had a paddleboard and was telling me all about it and i responded enthusiastically to her comments, like "heck yea," and "that's awesome." the guy was still included in the conversation and i replied to him enthusiastically as well. when we got to the boat launch, i told them to have a good day and the guy said "yea you too" and my ocd was immediately like "he thought that interaction was so weird, he probably thinks you're a p*" when i got in the water, i purposefully made sure i was rowing in the opposite direction of them (which conveniently was the direction i planned on going anyway). occasionally i would glance back to see where they were to make sure he didn't think i was following them and my ocd was like "he knows you're staring at her bc he thinks you're a predator." so i made a show of looking behind me in the other direction to make it seem like i was just looking around. i tried to ground myself and focus on the water and my breathing and used my erp skills and within a few minutes they were completely off my mind i'm wondering if anyone else has had a similar experience with overcoming the main obsession just to have the ocd double down on a different part of the theme? how did you handle it? i know i'll be able to overcome this just like i overcame my previous compulsions, but rn i'm frustrated that i worked so hard and my ocd pretty much laughed and gave me the finger lol
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