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Did you try getting help? Like going to a therapist?
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- 5y ago
Ahy bro not the way to look at it. Ask and you shall receive. Ask God to help you and ask for what your purpose is.. because you have one. God bless.
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- 5y ago
I believe, help my unbelief. I prayed so much about it. It has become worlds better already but i want it to be completely healed. I'm sick of being sick but i know all things work for the good of those that love the Lord. Romans 8:28
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Hey, I do not have POCD but I understand the shame OCD brings. Therapy really scared me at first but helped me tremendously. My therapist understood and was not judgemental. If possible, find someone who specializes in OCD/someone who comes recommended from someone with OCD. Talking about it and knowing I wasn’t “crazy” was such a relief and I began to heal. Still am, but goodness it was helpful. Personally of course.
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- 5y ago
Not related to the pocd. I just found out this week that it is an actual thing. At the moment there is to much shame involved for presenting it to smb in rl. Do you have positive results with therapy?
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- 5y ago
I can't actually afford therapy and also it's looked down upon to go to a therapist in my country. But I do self-erp (exposure response therapy) and yes, I am currently working on it and my OCD has improved quite a lot :).
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- 5y ago
Also, I think talking to a therapist about it shouldn't be considered embarrassing though I can actually see the obvious reason why you wouldn't like to. But at the end of the day it's just a disease so please try to contact a therapist who is more open to OCD and different types of them to talk about your problem
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- 5y ago
Dear @Jesus saves, please read the email sent to you from NOCD at any mention of self harm or suicide thoughts, actions. We understand how difficult and painful it is to struggle with POCD. The email will provide referral support. Please also reach out to your support persons, dial 911 or go to the nearest emergency room if you have any thoughts of self harm or suicide. NOCD cares about your safety.
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- 25w ago
So I was on a hat chat gpt and it said that people who are non-offenders experience distress and anxiety and disgust and depression and they feel ashamed of being a non-offender like WHAT like that's honestly terrifying and I'm so scared because that's how I've been feeling like when I'm out I get anxiety too especially when I see a younger person I always been attracted to MEN my whole life can people turn into monsters and I don't even care if they have problems if there attracted to kids then there sick in the head like don't care like this has been sharing me soo much and the worst part about it is that they said some are in denial or suppress their attractions I'm so done...... I can not do this this is too much I would rather be gone from this earth than find out that I might be one like you have to be kidding me if you're attracted to young people and desire that you're sick and dead to me you're a monster I don't care like its disgusting. for this eole some people are suffering from POCD like me are scared to think about that and I'm terrified.
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- 15w ago
Trying not to seek reassurance, but rather connect the dots on my OCD and possible reasons as to why I am the way I am. I have severe OCD (or at least I hope I do) mainly surrounding POCD. I've had symptoms of OCD the majority of my life but this theme has come up more recently. When I was a kid, and i'm talking 6-7, I was first exposed to some really gross adult content online. It was introduced to me by a friend of mine around the same age of me. I saw some really disgusting things that a 6-7 year old should definitely not see. This was not a one time occurrence, as I had been exposed to taboo topics online years to come after that, such as the same friend introducing me to Omegle... And i'm sure you can imagine how that went, theres a lot of genuinely disgusting human beings on there. Coming back to the reason for making this post; is it possible to early exposure to this content could be one of the reasons I struggle with POCD? It genuinely scares me to death because you hear that real p*dos dealt with simular situations when they were kids, so thats kind of making me feel that this could be more than OCD, and I could be a genuinely bad person. My POCD feels so real, that at times i'm fully convinced its not OCD. Sometimes I can't even distinguish the feelings of attraction between a younger person and an older person, except for the feeling of anxiety and fear. Its really hard to explain without going into detail, but it just feels so real. Some feedback on this would be great, thank you all.
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- 12w ago
Being exposed to taboo p*rn as young as first grade ruined my life and now ocd is making me pay for it. I have so much guilt for being a child/teen and looking at taboo stuff, and it was all fictional or anime or whatever but it was still so so gross. and I didn't realize It because I had been used to it at so young 🫠 I think what haunts me most is when I was a kid/young teen (like 12-14ish) and didn't have access to p*rn I'd imagine stuff similar to what I'd seen in the art. I can't even believe I'd imagine scenarios involving kid characters or whatever because it had been so normalized to me and I assumed it was normal since it was fiction. I'm 23 now so it's been a decade since I've done anything like that and I've never had the urge to since but still. I've NEVER been attracted to kids or had any urges or anything ever, even when I was addicted. The thought makes me want to vomit, I'd rather die than associate anything sexual with kids/minors and I think people who groom or assault kids are vile. But I still feel like the fact that I imagined stuff similar to the things I read sometimes when I was young is proof I'm a p*do. I don't think people would believe me if I said I'm not. I just feel like I don't deserve to live or that if I do, I'm living a lie. I know 'I was a kid too' but even when I was 13/14 I read/imagined stuff with characters younger than me because I thought it was normal. I'm so disgusted. I've had this theme for so long I'm starting to wonder if ocd is right. I feel too ashamed to tell my therapist.
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