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I think you might be thinking too much into it. I think the situation reminded you of it because of the idea of him being in a bath reminds you of a child because typically children take baths. I think that triggered you to think the scenario itself is cute and silly not that it turns you on. It reminded you of a child because that is something a child would do not because you are attracted to a child but because you think of them as cute. I think that reaction is totally normal don’t let your mind play tricks on you by reading too much into situations. You got this!
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- 5y ago
Pocd is so rough. Your ocd is over analyzing this I wouldn’t worry about it. How have you recovered from this theme in the past?
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- 5y ago
Obviously something I haven’t fully recovered from. It will resurface when I obsess over a thought and I start ruminating
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- 5y ago
@bloop123 I see. I try to really just not obsess and realize my situation isn’t that bad.
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- 5y ago
I’m so sorry that you’ve been thinking so hard on this. OCD is irrational and it will try to use everything against you. A few days ago I had a really dumb thought that I have a crush on some guy because he once was a kid ??♀️. The concerns and fear feel very reasonable at the time but just know that OCD will make your mind run with everything. Of course telling a person with OCD to stop overthinking isn’t very helpful (that’s part of the disorder!). What I’ve started doing is accepting the thought (not the content) before my mind even goes there. For example, if I have an intrusive thought or the impulse to do a compulsion, I identify them for what they are: OCD thoughts.
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- 13w ago
Sometimes I think " do I like kids?" "Would i get aroused if I saw content with kids?""What if I'm a pedo and cant accept it?" "What if I'm ok with these thoughts?" "What if I'm not distressed enough " "What if I enjoy these thoughts?" , i avoid kids as much as i can, i cant look at them bc I'm scared I'm gonna have some groin like response. I keep testing if I'd get turned on or if I'd have some groinal response to sexual scenarios with kids. Sometimes I think that if I took my life this would be over and i wouldn't have to think about this and i wish i doubted something else instead of things like this. I had similar situations just with different topics such as if i loved or found sexually appealing a guy while in a relationship and i kept asking myself those questions for months and i avoided going to school for weeks and when I went I'd cry and have anxiety attacks. I had it with past actions i obessed over and felt the need to exploit every detail and be honest because otherwise i was being a fraud. I had it for sexual things that happened when i was a child. Im not diagnosed with ocd but should i tell this to my local counselor? Can someone help? Give me advice or tell me anything?
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(20f) I have been dealing with severe OCD symptoms for as long as I can remember. I recently got diagnosed about a year ago, and even though I know that these thoughts are probably my ocd, I still cant shake them. Growing up I was always very sexually curious. I was sheltered from a lot of things, as I went to a private school and things like sexuality and sex were never talked about. I remember doing some weird sexual things growing up (never affecting another person), looking up taboo sexual things, etc. I always seemed to become aroused no matter what the situation was, even if I just saw someone getting changed. I have no recollection of being SA'd, so i'm wondering where this all came from? Was I just curious and wanted to experiment and try different things? Or am I really a pervert, pedophile, etc. I have all these thoughts racing through my head and it's killing me. Everything I did as a kid I look back on and am disgusted, as those don't align with my views at all today. I never thought growing up thinking these things were wrong, or actually realize what they were until I got older. I'd like to think it was just my curiosity, but i'm not sure. What if i'm in denial and actually do like these things? I just need to know if theres something wrong w me, I cant keep going on like this. Could really use some advice.
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I don’t know if my hormones are extra wild this month or what, but I have been having so many POCD thoughts lately. It feels like I enjoy them in the moment, and then a few seconds later, I get this tiny flicker of *wait I don’t think I actually want to enjoy that.* It’s scaring me a lot. I was watching adult videos for the first time in about a year, since I had been avoiding them because of my OCD. I know they are not good for anyone, but I felt like i could (ironically it felt like a tiny win that my OCD had calmed down enough). But while watching, I had like 3 separate POCD thoughts. And it felt like I liked them. Like genuinely *liked* them. I don’t know if maybe my body was mixing up physical pleasure and mental pleasure, and then my brain inserted those not okay thoughts into the situation, which got tangled up with the pleasure responses I felt mentally and physically. It is all really confusing. I just feel so scared. I know OCD thoughts are supposed to feel real, and that once you get desensitized to the anxiety, they lose their power. But this feels like I am *actually enjoying* the thoughts, and that makes me want to cry. I’m scared that I actually like these thoughts when I’m really aroused :( Please help.
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