OK! I am going through the weirdest thought process and it’s kinda TMI but I just don’t know who else to talk to. So I’ve been dating this guy for a while and he is sO goofy. He sent me a snap video of him in a bath and he was trying to make me laughing peeing in the video too. And it was cute seeing him in a bath because he’s a grown man in a little bath all by himself I thought it was cute. But when he pee’d it reminded me of my nephew. Sometimes when I take my baby nephew to the potty I have to carry him to pee because he’s so tiny and when he finishes it’s this funny little trickling noise. And that’s the noise my bf made in the video. So when that came in my mind I had this idea that I’m like a pedophile or into children because I thought... Like I don’t even know I can’t even explain it. Like when my bf sent me that video I didn’t think of it sexually or turned on by it. I genuinely just thought it was adorable that he was in a bath like a little boy. And then it made me panic like do I think it’s cute because I’m into children?! I don’t really know what to do. I’ve always suffered from POCD but I’m really scared about this...

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!

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?

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.