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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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- 24w
Getting eaten alive by thoughts right now, when I was a child me and other kids around my age would experiment and do things we shouldn’t have, I’m talking very young, like 3-5 as I got older I was for whatever reason always curious to a horrible extent and it lead me to do in appropriate things to kids around me, I was 7-8 at the time. I would say it happened 3 times in total in my childhood. And i eventually told my parents the last time it happened because even though I didn’t know it at the time. I had ocd. And I knew it was bad. That was when it all started. I feel absolutely disgusted with my 7 year old self and it comes up every once in a while especially when I hear anything about sexual abuse. I’m nearly 20 now and I enjoy my life for the most part and I’ve been down the ocd path before but I feel unforgivable. And I never want to tell anyone about it, but my ocd seems to want that. I have a beautiful girlfriend that had some traumatic things happen to her and I love her with my soul. I don’t ever want that to come up. Because that’s not who I am. When will I be able to forgive myself? If at all I hope I’m not alone.
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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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- 12w
What if you did something extremely horrible as a child that you didn’t know how horrible the events were that your POCD and real events OCD targets? Does it make the intrusive thoughts true? I'm getting anxious from my POCD and real event OCD based on real events (3 times) from when I was 13…… I don't ever want to ever be a P at all… I don't ever want to ever be a Chomo at all... i don’t ever want to ever be a rapist at all… I was 13 when these real events happened and now I'm 20... I've asked my mom about this so many times and every time she tells me that it's not serious anymore, that the person is okay and doesnt remember, and that I'm not a rapist or a P or a chomo... I didn’t realize how horrible the real events actually were… I was 13 at the time… now I’m 23… my POCD and real event OCD call me a P or a chomo because of the real events… while my mom reassures me all the time that it’s all over, that it’s not serious anymore, that the person is okay, and that I’m not a P or a rapist or a chomo, but when I was doing compulsive research, I remember when I saw a post on a non OCD forum about someone’s similar situation to mine and two people said to the person that they m*lested and that they needed to turn themselves in… I don’t ever want to ever be a P or a chomo in any way shape or form… i didn’t know how horrible the real events were when I was 13… I really didn’t… and after the real events I never did anything like that ever again, and I never once ever thought (before, and after) about doing stuff with kids in any way shape or form... I never once fantasized about kids or wanted to do anything with kids… I was 13 and didn’t realize how horrible the actions were at the time and I never did it ever again… I never once fantasized about kids before or after the real event… I don't ever want to ever harm a child in any way shape or form... I seriously don't ever want to do that to any child in any way shape or form and I seriously don't ever want to do anything like that to any kid now or in the future… I never have had any fantasies about kids and I don't ever want to... I don't ever want to ever be a P or a chomo in any way shape or form... I was 13….. and after the real events I never did anything like that ever again, and I never once ever thought (before, and after) about doing stuff with kids in any way shape or form... I never once fantasized about kids or wanted to do anything with kids… I was 13 and didn’t realize how horrible the actions were at the time and I never did it ever again… I never once fantasized about kids before or after the real event… And it’s comparing me to actual P’s and chomo’s who did stuff from 12-15 and then did stuff as adults, and making me think I’m a P and a Chomo because of it… I don’t ever want to ever be a P or a chomo in any way… 😭😭😭
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