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My mind constantly tells me that I never really experienced that trauma just like it tells me I don’t actually have OCD, why????
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Oh god, how I understand you!!! I also have a trauma that I never talk about and at sometimes it seems that my mind is trying to convince me that it never happened. Also, I can only think of it if I try very hard, it’s like the memory is burried and I have to dig to get to it
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I understand you!! Theres definitely a connection because OCD is caused by anxiety but also due to the sense of LOSS OF CONTROL; which is what happens when a child is molested. I was sexually abused too by my cousin and Ive had OCD since a child but my OCD NEVER VALIDATES the fact that I do have OCD and it took a lot of therapy for me to validate my own sexual abuse.
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There can be a lot of overlap in symptoms (depression, rumination, anxiety, fear, guilt, doubt etc) and my therapist believes my OCD was triggered by trauma. It certainly has gotten worse in the wake of later traumas. Maybe if I'd been able to talk about it at the time, I wouldn't have gotten OCD. But I couldn't, and later wouldn't, that's just the way it is. It doesn't help me much to think about what might have been. But it's important to go over it in therapy.
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I don't think your OCD or PTSD could have been prevented; whether you told anybody or not. A child's brain is NOT DEVELOPED enough to consent or understand sexual acts; this causes severe TRAUMA to the child often manifested in different ways, one of which is OCD. ESPECIALLY if it was someone close to you and no one was there to help YOU, the child in need. This is not your fault AT ALL. You were just a kid. However, validating your experience WILL help you heal your inner child.
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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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Anyone else here with complex trauma and ocd? How did u find they correlate with each other? Possibly the trauma causing ocd? Have you found any mind blowingly obvious connections? Healing your trauma helps with ocd symptoms? I recently found out I have cptsd and have been abused by my family growing up physically and verbally. Btw still living with them and my ocd gets significantly worse or better sometimes.I have so many questions.❤️🩹
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My OCD is directly tied to my PTSD from being hospitalized in the past. I feel incredibly alone because of this. I’m 26 and was hospitalized twice - once when I was 14 for an eating disorder, where I experienced solitary confinement and SA. Then again when I was 22 for depression, where I was “cold-turkey” from one of my medications and almost had a heart attack. I’m traumatized because of these events and struggle with “insanity OCD” that directly ties into my trauma where I get terrified I’ll “lose control” and do something that will cause me to be hospitalized against my will and taken away from my loved ones. I’m scared to even seek therapy or reach out. If anyone has similar experiences/lived experience I’d greatly appreciate your guidance. Please forgive any grammatical errors; I’m not in the best state of mind rn.
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