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I wouldn’t care. The past is the past I love my girlfriend for who she has been with me and for who she is now.
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Don’t dwell in the past. We’re humans and we make mistakes. The only reason you made a mistake was because you feel you did. I personally wouldn’t judge you for that decision. But really, don’t beat yourself up for something that can’t be changed you deserve to enjoy yourself for who you are now.
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@lulu23 Thank you for your response. I googled online and saw a forum where men were saying they would never date someone who was a sugar baby or tried it. I got really upset. Everyday for the past 3 years I’ve beat myself up over it. These men got me drunk and just wanted sex from me, and I believed them. They just treat women like crap on those sites. I even went to NYPD special victims unit to report them for conning me but no proof and so many years have passed. The guilt eats me up. My ex boyfriend used to get mad at me and throw my past in my face to upset me so I’m afraid to date now. My parents raised me to be a Turkish Muslim wife so I carry a lot of guilt around this. It’s hard growing up with peer pressure in America and other cultural expectations at home.
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@NYCgal I’m so sorry you’re going through all of this. You deserve better. You deserve a better partner that won’t do that to you. One exists, don’t lose hope. I trust that you’re a great person especially since something like this is getting to you so badly. Most of all you deserve to feel better about yourself please take time to learn to accept yourself and live as happy as possible. The guys who talk bad about women’s past aren’t the guys you want to be with anyway. I understand why you’re going through this but just know you’re not a bad person for having a past you don’t like. You seem like a caring person to me.
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I wouldn’t care, everybody makes dumb decisions, just as long as you learn from it then you’re fine. It’s tough to block out the guilt because of the ocd but it’s just the ocd trying to make you believe that, it heightens everything
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And I see your name has nyc, I live in ny too, you could get yourself into debt easily here, I’ve been there before
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Yea I second this ocd creates guilt in the form of an intrusive thought in my opinion.
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Yeah I grew up on Long Island and work in nyc. I traveled also and got into credit card debt that I was drowning in and my family is toxic and emotionally abusive so I was out of my mind trying to pay off my debt and move out. Since I was sheltered growing up I learned lessons the hard way by making bad decisions and getting into trouble. The ocd eats at me. There was a time I was even looking myself up on porn sites seeing if I was secretly taped and posted on there. Constantly seeking reassurance and keeping the good girl reputation I was raised with. My mind suffers everyday.
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Wow that sounds rough, but you have a whole life time to continue making your situation better
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@paul12345 Yeah now my debt is almost paid off. I lived in Dubai for a year and was in an abusive relationship. My bf would shove my past in my face and keep me isolated in his apartment with no money after I got laid off. I was cooking and cleaning and didn’t see sunlight for weeks at a time and was brainwashed to believe that I deserved it all. When I returned back to the states last summer I was so anxious from isolation I couldn’t even go to a grocery store without having a panic attack. Now I got a great job in the city, work as a cashier on the weekends, and did this all from will power and no insurance to get meds or anything. Since I am so busy now, I found the better help app for some online therapy for now, and waiting to get insurance from my job to see a psychiatrist for meds. Slowly but surely I’m building my life back but I still have ocd flare ups from time to time. My friends moved away or fell distant over time so I’ve been working and going home. The alone time makes my ocd worse. I think of the past and just overthink. I want to get back into dating again but I’m scared.
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@NYCgal The way I look at it is that you’ve has enough strength to leave a shitty guy, and you sound like a great person trying to get her life back together. You know you deserve that or else you wouldn’t be trying.
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@NYCgal I get really bad intrusive thoughts and anxiety and at the time it feels like it’ll never go away but it always does
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@paul12345 Thank you for your kind words. Are you on medication or do you have tools for dealing with the intrusive thoughts and anxiety? I saw an ocd specialist for 10 years and I’m 26 now. I can’t afford her anymore and I am on the online therapy platform. I learned the tools but it’s hard to talk to myself all day everyday with scripts. When I had insurance I was on adderall to distract me from ocd thoughts but it just changed my personality and made me addicted.
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@NYCgal I’ve seen a therapist for only a few sessions and I took medication for a little bit but i stopped. I don’t want to tell my parents what I’m dealing with because I don’t want to worry them. Basically what I deal with is like magical thinking, I get intrusive thoughts of my friends and family dying/getting hurt and if I’m watching a movie or eating something I have to stop it or else I think somebody will die or get hurt. And when something bad does happen I usually think it’s somehow my fault
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@paul12345 When I was 5 my brother died in a car accident and my whole childhood I was always afraid my parents would die
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I’m sorry about your brother. I can see how that trauma has affected you and ocd. If you ever want to talk about that with me you can. I talk a lot as u can see lol but I’m I good listener as well. I have a problem confessing to my mother. All started when I was 14 and thought I was gay because I got a little turned on by lesbian porn. I used to not tell my mom anything and now I get relief from my obsessions when I confess for reassurance. The key to ocd is sitting with the uncertainty and anxiety and eventually it will go away but when I try to do the exercises it causes me insomnia and lack of concentration, which is hard with no meds and having a full time schedule. I feel like talking to each other on this app helps a bit because it reminds you that you are not alone.
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Throughout my life I’ve had lapses of sometimes it being good, in control, manageable or just bad. Last year half the year was terrible and then the next half I had it under control but at the start of 2019 idk what happened and that’s when I started to take meds and seeing a therapist
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@paul12345 As in last year I meant 2018
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And yeah this app is great and could share anything without the feeling of judgment
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@paul12345 OCD is known to flare up during times of stress. It happened to me right before I left for college and just whenever major things are happening in my life. It’s so hard to manage sometimes so I get it. I’ve tried CBD oil and vitamins for sleep and anxiety in the meantime but sometimes it doesn’t work.
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hello everybody! 🔞 last saturday i did something i shouldn't have done, and i even posted about it here, but no one responded to my post (it's okay, i completely understand). to inform you, since i deleted the post: i consumed erotic literature where two 14 year old children had a relationship (☠️), on wattpad. and i consumed this theme to see if i was really attracted to it..i think. i'm unsure about it, but i know i didn't feel anything consuming it. i was feeling extremely anxious and felt extremely bad the next day, and i only got better when i talked to my girlfriend and an online friend. i'm still feeling bad, i know i shouldn't have done it and whenever i'm feeling genuinely good, it comes back to haunt me.. i'm worried because i'm not feeling enough guilt or remorse, idk.. i feel bad and i regret it, and i can't stand going through this problem anymore.. i was in therapy a few months ago, but i stopped for financial reasons and my psychologist doesn't see me virtually anymore. it's been difficult.. just a vent.
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I’m a 23 y/o female who has recently entered a phase of obsessive thoughts of mistakes I’ve made, ranging from events that happened over a decade ago when and I was a kid up to things that happened recently. I feel so much debilitating guilt I can’t do anything or function. I especially feel bad for this one instance. I have always had extremely low self esteem, and I often seek attention and validation especially from men. I like being liked. I find myself trying to act or look cute, or even act somewhat like a pick-me, so that I feel liked. I feel like I may even do this with girls too, but especially guys. I just really like attention, and I’ve been in a stagnant 6 year relationship where I don’t really feel desirable, and I’m very lonely. A few months ago I started playing a game where I met a large group of people and we would all play together everyday. One of the people in particular was a 15/16 year old guy who flirted with me a lot, and I kept my distance because he was so young, and I felt kinda weird talking to someone younger than me, but we would still talk sometimes because we were apart of the same discord group, and I have a problem being stern and confrontational so I didn’t want to be mean or make things awkward in the friend group. Although it made me uncomfortable that he was so young and that I’m nearly a whole decade older than him, and I did make it clear that I was dating someone and I was way too old for him and I would tell him to stop, I wasn’t very stern and I was very lighthearted about it and I even found myself liking the attention I got from him. I was flattered. I liked that he liked me so much even though I knew he was a teenager and I feel like I was maybe even seeking attention from him like I did with the other guys in the group. And when I say seeking attention, I mean that I was acting cute so that I was liked and got attention. Is that considered flirting? Was I flirting with him? Does this make me disgusting? That I liked the attention I got even though he was teenager? That I acted cute around him as well as all the other guys so that he would like me? I feel disgusted with myself. Does this make me a predator? Doesn’t this make me disgusting that I liked attention I got from a teenager? To be fair, I like the attention I get from any guy. I just like feeling liked. But I feel like it makes me disgusting that even though I knew he was a teenager I still liked and was flattered by the attention and was possibly even seeking it out from him. My head is all messed up. I really feel like I’m having an identity crisis. I feel disgusted with myself to the point that I’m nauseous. I’m so ashamed. I’ve been crying nonstop for days on end and I feel truly hopeless. I don’t know how I’m supposed to live my life with this shame and that I’m convinced that makes me a predator or a sick person. I don’t know if I’m overthinking things or not. I just really need some relief because I feel like I’m losing my mind, but I want someone to be honest with me about my actions.
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i feel like i have been posting a lot about this and i will try to stop since now but i just don't know where to start or what to do, and i can't take therapy right now either. my event is about something that did actually happen; i had a boyfriend and we had a 1.5 age difference (i know this sounds stupid) but the thing is that we both started to sext a lot since he was 14 and i was 15. we shared audios videos pictures ect and i don't know how to just let this go, even when i know that i never really forced him into anything and i was always constantly worried about him being comfortable, when to stop and ect. the memories keep coming back to my mind and the guilt is eating me up slowly because i keep thinking that i'm a predator or a groomer or something like that. i don't know how to deal with the what ifs either, lately i haven't stopped thinking what if i sexually harassed or sexually exploited him or something like that. how do i deal with the cycle of guilt and constant what ifs if i also feel like my event is worse than others i've seen? please help me with this. it's getting a lil tiring and even if somedays i know how to deal with this, i still get really triggered sometimes. this wouldn't even bother me before, i wish i could just get back in time before this theme popped into my mind. my life has been a hell since then and i live constantly scared and suicidal.
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