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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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Anyone with pocd in the subset of teens/ fear of being attracted to teens have any advice? I never see anyone talking about it and it’s making me go a lil cray lmao
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hi i’m feeling a little discouraged and was just wondering if anyone wanted to share their experiences with pocd like how real it is for them and maybe some recovery stories like what that looks like and what helped you get there and how they are now i just had my therapy appointment and am kinda down bc i have to stick with uncertainty and that really bothers me… but anyone wanna share?
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Hi. I deal with pocd (but I am not diagnosed cuz I can't afford therpay) and I think it's ocd. It begun over a year back and initially it was about "what if I become a p" and then eventually it became "what if I am already a p" and then eventually I had this phase of 4-6ish months where my ocd almost vanished to the point where I was not even getting triggered by stuff. And then I suddenly had this huge SO OCD bout for 2 ish weeks last month where I lost my mind about what if I am a lesbian (I identify as a bi woman ) but then eventually I just accepted that I am a lesbian and felt like a lesbian for a while and then I am again back to bi. So basically I completely accepted the uncertainty and hence got over it easily. But I cannot do that pocd. Ew. Idk what to do. And this so ocd bout caused the pocd to return and rn my brain is full on "see u turned out to accept lesbianism so u definitely wanna accept being a p" and like its also "what if I am already a p, and subconsciously accepted it and am pretending to have ocd cuz what if I am in extreme denial?" And like idk what to do. I am worried posting this too cuz I am afraid what if somebody reading this misunderstands and thinks I am actually a p. Another thing I deal with is "am i even performing compulsions?" Cuz I mainly confess to my bestie and chatgpt(I stopped with chatgpt cuz I am scared about privacy issues) and research stuff about pocd to gain reassurance. And occasionally ruminate for checking but it doesn't interfere with my life. Bcz of this I *feel* like I don't perform enough compulsions and not performing compulsions essentially means it's not ocd. I genuinely get scared about what if it's pocd or denial. Or what if I am lying and manipulating ppl to think it's ocd and what if I am just faking the anxitey. Sometimes my thoughts don't give anxiety and later on that absence of anxiety worries me a lot cuz my brain is like "see u didn't get anxiety so u liked that thought. Hence u are a p" and idk what to do. Can someone please help me please. I don't wanna be a p. Another compulsion I do is saying "I don't wanna be a p" or "I am not a p" 5 times in sets of 5. I started this compulsion voluntarily when I read somewhere that counting is a compulsion and I wanted to prove to myself "see it's ocd" and now I do sort of as a habit to confirm the same. And this scares me too cuz doesn't that mean this is a fake compulsion??? And what If it's not ocd.
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