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Hey I’m sorry your going through this theme, I have it too, but I’ve gotten so much better! Remember that the content of the theme does not matter because underneath all themes is just fear! Exposures for me are being around my niece and when I see a picture of a kid on social media I don’t scroll by super fast trying to avoid it. I read online that good exposure is looking at images of kids on google, going to parks or walking by schools, and not looking away when you see a kid. If you have cousins or nieces/nephews, try being around them more and when you start feeling better, offer to babysit. It can seem hard because I felt really ashamed and didn’t want to do the exposures, but please do! It will help and you will get over this obsession!
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Oh I forgot holding a child while it’s mom sat next to me Intentionally saying hi to children when I’m in public Not changing aisles or moving if children come close to me Making a list of words associated with POCD and writing them until boredom
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- 6y
I understand. This theme makes me feel so disgusted sometimes, but I know that it’s ultimately meaningless. It can be so hard at times, but stay strong! Ask God for the strength and try letting go of your fears by giving them to him. His main focus is you getting better, He’s sending you guardian angels to help guide you through recovery. One of the hardest parts is just letting go and letting him lead you
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I know that must of been hard for you to write but thank you for sharing! Currently, I too am afraid to watch TV, movies, etc. because they may contain my OCD trigger. Lets stay strong tougher!
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The exposures I’ve done have been: Script writing Purposefully going to stores where there are children Intentionally passing closely by kids and looking them in the face
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I always avoid my niece and nephew or any kid really ?
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Don’t worry Philippians4:7, you are not alone. It can be hard and at first I avoided my niece too, but to get better you have to be around them. This will help to show your brain that the thoughts are meaningless
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Thank you. My ocd just really makes me feel like I'm hazardous. I despise feeling disgusted by my own self ? @0823
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That's exactly what I've been doing. He's my only comfort and hope regarding all themes of ocd.
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Thanks so much for the word ❤
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You’re welcome ❤️ He’s my comfort too
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Those are great exposures WorriedDriver! Thank you so much for sharing
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- 23w
i've been very sad these days, i saw a child on TikTok and i had thoughts calling her hot, it seemed like i liked it and i was very anxious and very scared. i cried a lot, i kept replaying the video several times because it seemed like i was attracted to her and only when i was sure that I wasn't attracted to her i skip the video. but then i went to watch the videos of this kid again to see if i was really attracted or not again and i got nervous about being attracted to her "chest" and i kept looking to see if I was really attracted or not 😭 i wasn't, but one thought scared me a lot, which was "you were only attracted because it looked like an adult's chest." i was very nervous, i cried a lot because of this. I'm not attracted to children, I never have been, why does it seem like i am? i don't want to look at children anymore, im too nervous. i'm not attracted to her, all of this makes me sick and sad, it's all very uncomfortable and scary. but I've been questioning myself a lot about the last thought, i can't stop questioning myself. every time i see a child my brain asks if i'm attracted to them or if i think they're pretty. i can't stop crying (sorry for any mistakes I'm using a translator)
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- 21w
17f So basically I think you know this whole accept and sit with the uncertainty thing. It applies to pocd as well. Because you can ruminate, test yourself, seek reassurance as much as you want but it will never be enough for you brain to be sure you are not a P. So you need to sit with "Maybe I am a P maybe not" and just don't do anything about it. So sometimes I can do that. But here comes moral ocd. If I accept the chanse of me being a pedophile, isn't it morally wrong for me to be around children? Look at children? Watch movies with children in it? Cause now I can't even look at children even if it was an accident without freaking out and thinking that I'm a monster. Sometimes it feels morally wrong to leave the house because there is a chanse I can meet a child on the street I genuinely don't know what to do. It feels paralyzing at this point. Seems like I can't do anything. Like I even need to cover children on the screen with my hand when I watch a movie. It's exhausting.
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im not sure what this could be described as exactly since this is the first time i can explicitly remember something like this happening and it lasted for a few hours (thankfully i had no internet on the flight so i couldn’t seek reassurance) but yesterday, as i was on an airplane back to the us, i was watching desperate housewives and was watching an episode where one of the moms (lynette scavo) went into a swimming coach’s (art shepard) house and there was a scene where she and her kids were in the house and she found her kids in the basement filled with a bunch of kids games. however, the wall to the side was also filled with pictures of young shirtless boys which indicated that he could be a pedophile. i feel like i looked at the screen a bit more intently during that specific scene to see what exactly it was that was causing the suspense of the moment. however, my mind started telling me that i looked at the screen because i was attracted to the kids and that i am supposedly a pedophile. i had a thought spiral about this for maybe an hour or two during the flight where my mind was trying to accuse me and i tried mentally rationalizing as to why im not a pedophile and reassured myself that this is probably just ocd but it seemed very real at the time period and it freaked me out
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