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I can understand a bit. I'm able to afford typical therapy, but not an OCD specialist. I can't give you the reassurance you're seeking just like you can't give me the reassurance I'd like. I can tell you that I work with elementary school kids. POCD fears it's head there, but what really gets me now is seeing some of these kids as they grow up. I notice that they're attractive and get sexually intrusive thoughts about them which I find harder to deal with because I knew them when they were younger. I question whether I am and maybe have always been attracted to them. It's extremely uncomfortable, but try and sit with the anxiety. Try doing what you would have done if these thoughts hadn't come up. We're in a similar boat and I'm pulling for you ☺.
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Thank you so much, specially for not give reassurance, I hope you get better and I will try to go to a therapist as soon as possible and I hope this will go away but I will work for it
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What's up?
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It's that I watch gilmore girls and in the last season it's a little girl and I don't know why I looked up her name, now she is like 18 or 19, like me and I start to following her on Instagram and have fantasies with her, but with she is right now that she have my same age, not in the show, and now I feel guilty a lot and I don't know, I feel like a monster
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@cami0102 I'm a monster
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@cami0102 I'm a monster, I shouldn't be alive
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@cami0102 Well, what do you think is going on in this situation ☺?
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@Ben84 I don't know, I just feel horrible, like I wish little kids, horrible horrible horrible
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@cami0102 But I didn't fantasize with her when she was little, I did when she was 18 19, like me
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Is it possible your OCD is perverting an age-appropriate fantasy?
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Maybe, I don't know, I don't fantasize with her when she was little, I did when she was grow up, like 18 19
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I'm so afraid, I feel like a monster, I'm horrible
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@cami0102 Are you currently seeing a therapist?
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@Ben84 I can't, I don't have money, I wish go, but I can't
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Thanks for your honesty Ben.. Try to sit with anxiety without performing compulsions. We can't control thoughts
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Hey friend, we cant offer you a solution, it will be a reassurance. But looking at what you said you grow up watching someone and then now started to like the person and the person now is above 18, not a minor, but because you saw the person since she was younger, I agree with the others, try to sit with it and dont perform compulsion, remember compulsions can be mentally too and try to talk with a specialist. Hope you get better
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I mean I watch the show like in 2017 but then,I don't know since when I search her name, I don't know why but I did it and I see how she is right know I really like her, but right know, that's what I'm afraid of
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@cami0102 You said it, you liked her right now, not before, not in 2017 and since you dont remember when you searched it doesnt matter anymore. This are intrusive thoughts, one of their characteristics is making people believing they are something they arent or that they did something they didnt and make the person guilty over it
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@cami0102 I mean like I knew she would be like 18 or 19 because the show it's like from 2000 and the last season aired 2007 so she would be like my age, I feel so sick
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@Newstage Yeah, horrible
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@cami0102 So you probably grow up with her, at the same pace
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@Newstage Exactly, like the same time, we have like the same age or maybe I'm like 1 year older
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I’ve been feeling the urge to avoid intimacy or purposefully engage (for reassurance that I won’t give into a compulsion) because of intrusive thoughts and fear that I’ll “check/test” my reactions. My OCD is making me so scared that I’ll purposefully think of a child and try to see if I like it. It’s so complicated but I guess I’m mentally checking if I would mentally check during intimacy. I’ve even envisioned myself checking and it’s making me so nauseous. I know it’s a compulsion like any other but the sound of “touching yourself to the thought of a child” sounds atrocious and vile. I’m terrified I’ll automatically start checking next time I am being intimate. I truly feel so worried. If anyone has gone through something similar, I’d appreciate hearing your experience. Or if anyone has any advice?
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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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Please read this. I’ve had ocd pretty much a lot of my life but never knew what it was until my senior year of highschool. I’m 21 with 2 kids and i believe i’ve had pocd a little bit before my daughter was born (which was 8 months ago). It made me start looking at all kids differently and i hate it. But it really started triggering me about 3 months ago. I’ve been thinking if i’d intentionally touched or harmed my kids the wrong way, or any kids for that matter. This started giving me false memories (or at least hope they are). I’ve been having panic attacks, yelling at myself, punching walls, praying, and even thoughts of ending my own life. I grew up in a severe toxic household throughout my childhood and teenage life. I’ve never wished that on my kids since i became a dad. I wanna give them the life i never got. I look back my photos of my children and i feel like i’m a complete fraud of a dad. I cannot look at my kids or be around them a lot of times. I can’t hold my daughter right. I can’t change their diaper when they need it. Even my son came and was hugging on me the other night while i was watching tv and i acted like a stranger to him. I can very little do this stuff sometimes because it’s either i get relief or i push my thoughts as far back as i can. I get scared if i did something to not just my kids, but any other kids in the past. I have such a a great life and such a beautiful family. It was hard and stressful at first being young with a family but i couldn’t be more thankful at all for them. I’m just so lost and stressed right now that i just don’t know what to do anymore
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