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I'm curious. If a young person you cared about, like a nephew, did whatever you did, how would you respond? By saying that tey don't deserve to live anymore? By helping them to grow in a healthier direction? My guess is that hat you'd show them more compassion than you are yourself, while still acknowledging that their behavior was unacceptable
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I would show more compassion, you’re right. I’m just scared that I would judge them or think of them differently like I’m scared of someone doing to me. It’s so hard to tell what’s ocd and what’s not in this situation
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Oh same. Same same same. I feel like a fraud, and I feel the need to tell people what I did, to see if they’d still like me. Of course, I never can. I carry a lot of shame for the things I did when I was around ten years old. Things I wish I could go back and undo. But I can’t and nor can you. The present in now. Our values and morals are different, and we aren’t the people we once were. It did happen, but that doesn’t make us any less worthy of a long life full of change and understanding. It’s a part of growth, to identify and learn from our mistakes. We must accept the present moment :)
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I want to cry reading what you said because it sounds so similar to my everyday thought processes regarding this obsession. ocd black and white thinking makes it so much worse because I think that if i’ve ever done something bad, then my life is ruined. It’s so incredibly difficult and i’m sorry you’ve gone through the same. your words make me feel a little better about moving on despite how guilty i feel.
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@chamomilegirl I know. Black and white thinking is so frustrating and terrible at times. It does truly feel like everything’s ruined all because of one thing. But it isn’t. It’s okay to feel guilty, but don’t let that stop you from fulfilling your present life and values. And if it helps, I forgive you for whatever you did, no matter what it was. Now show yourself this unconditional self acceptance too :)
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Tell to yourself: i'm a good person, i can withstand panic, my family and friends aren't judging me, for a minimim of five times.
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Being something I suffered with I understand how horrible it is especially when it is stuff that happened. All I can give advice is trying to meditate, try the headspace app, and you've got to remember what you did before has no effect on who you are as a person now. It takes time but now when I get flashbacks I tell myself theres nothing I can do to change my past but change my actions for the now. Remind yourself of who you are now
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Whatever you did when you were younger, there are people who have done worse. Everyone has secrets and personal shames. You’re only human and we all do things that we regret. Your goal should be self improvement. You’re just being too hard on yourself. I’m sure you’re a wonderful person.
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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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17f I have a lot of events, but my main and my worst one which is absolutely fucking diabolical was done when I was 14 and repeated when I was 16. Everytime I post something about real event ocd here people are like you are probably didn't do anything that bad, and when they hear what I did they are like yeah that's bad. Someone even asked me if I'm autistic cause "it's crazy how you didn't realize that the thing ypu were doing was wrong at this age." And I kinda agree, like it's fucked up It's just that my event is bad. Doesn't mean I don't have real event ocd. You can have a reocd over the event that was bad, it doesn't mean the event wasn't that bad or you don't have recod. It's just people always expect it to be something innocent and it's not Even a healthy person would feel guilty over it, it's just that I had ocd my whole life and it's making the guilt absolutely destructive, like to the point when I sometimes have a hard time breathing when I think about it, I lost more than a year of life to it, almost checked myself out couple of times if I wasn't so scared of pain/failure, the event haunts me in my dreams, it's in my head 24/7 and I will never able to forgive myself. That ocd. But the event itself was bad. So maybe i deserve it.
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Hello 😭, so uhm I’m kind of in the point of my POCD where I’m just tired. I just need to get it all out and get some sort of instruction of how to just idk live? So for me my childhood is pretty blurry. I have a few real event blended with false memory events there but other than that I’m a csa victim. And the way I tried to cope? By fetishising nyself, making CP of myself, seeing my life goal as being used, raped and a prostitue. Self destructive behaviour through talking to pedophiles and seeing my only worth as if I was sexually attractive. Which made me kind of numb to CP as a coping mechanism I guess. And heres’s where my main event of REOCD/false memory ocd comes in. I have a few events in my life when I’ve accidentally stumbled across CP ish mangas or just plan abuse and not had a big reaction. Some of them I even liked the story. And my ocd LOVES playing with it, making me truly believe I enjoy and get of from CP. I’ve also had quite a few dreams. A few days ago I had a dream about me getting triggered by something I did in the dream. Which I now can’t figure out if it actually was a dream. But also moments overall where I’ve unintentionally touched my private part while my siblings are in the room or when I found a guy 2 years younger than me pretty in 4th grade. Or a few of my only friends who turned out to be younger than me, and I had talked about sexual things (like fan fictions, my trauma ect) with them. AHSHB I absolutely hate ruminating and I’m tired so so so so so so tried 😭 idk help me? Please TT
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