ocdsvcks
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- 5y
YayfortherapyYayfortherapy
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- 5y
I think it varies, though it will get better. Sometimes my OCD on certain topics goes away completely. Sometimes it lingers but gets way better after ERP, if that makes sense. I’ve never had an OCD theme that didn’t at least get much better from therapy.
ocdsvcksocdsvcks
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- 5y
omg that’s awesome!!! i used to deal with hocd but now it’s gone and i’m back to how i was before it hit. so i’m hoping it’s the same with this theme
YayfortherapyYayfortherapy
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- 5y
@ocdsvcks Thanks so much! Did you post yesterday (or the day before) about an event with your little brother and then delete it? I had something I really wanted to say about it, if it wasn’t you then I’m sorry haha but I have a masters in early childhood development and I was going to comment and say it’s extremely normal for girls to do that between the ages of 5 and 8. Not that it’ll help your OCD, but I think it will help the shame part to know that the behavior you showed at that age was extremely normal.
ocdsvcksocdsvcks
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- 5y
@Yayfortherapy yes that was me! i actually still have it up. but thank u so much oh my goodness. i felt so weird and icky about it. im pretty sure i was 7 years old although my ocd is now making me question whether i was older. but i’m sure it was under the age of 10. but thank u so much for this information it really helps ease my conscience.
YayfortherapyYayfortherapy
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- 5y
@ocdsvcks Yeah, I guess that’s why ERP is the best thing for OCD, because no matter what I tell you, your OCD will still say, “yeah, but what about...” So I hope I didn’t make things worse by reassuring you but I just didn’t want you to have guilt or shame over a normal part of childhood development. Actually, in the comment I tried to post to your original post, I told you that I did the same thing on family members laps as a kid and sometimes I get OCD about that ? but kids don’t realize it’s sexual, it’s more like, “this feels nice so I’m going to do this.” Keep doing your exposures!!! You can get through this!!
ocdsvcksocdsvcks
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- 5y
@Yayfortherapy YES exactly. the only reason i did it was because i knew it felt good. but since it was my brother, i waited for when my parents weren’t home. ofc ocd is gonna twist that and make it seem like i did it because i was trying to molest him but i just didn’t know it was wrong at the time
YayfortherapyYayfortherapy
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- 5y
@ocdsvcks Yeah! OCD sucks that way. So annoying. I’m really glad that exposures work. I student-taught second graders and it was like, A THING with the girls haha they rubbed themselves all over everything all the time! Super normal but of course it triggered my POCD!
ocdsvcksocdsvcks
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- 5y
@Yayfortherapy im so sorry :(( at least we know thats it’s ocd and we’re not like crazy molesters or anything lmfao but thank u so much for this information. i just hate that ocd has taken one small isolated incident and turned it into something it’s not. i would never do anything to harm my brother especially not in that kind of way. i guess that’s why ocd is egodystonic. but anyways thank u so so much for this!! good luck on ur recovery :))!!
J1llJ1ll
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- 5y
I have wondered that as well!
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