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Instead of saying i am a bad person you should say OCD makes me feel like I am a bad person.
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∆∆∆∆great advice
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Thank you for understanding. I just feel terrible, because this is something I stand against now obviously but everything I look at tells me that it was child on child sexual abuse. I hate myself for it, but your insight has helped a bit. Thank you.
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Of course this was not child to child abuse and I'm a little shocked that you hate yourself for this incident. You should at least have the insight that this is OCD talking and there's no reason to hate yourself. OCD is trying to make you feel like you're bad person and you fall for it don't do that. There is nothing bad with this incident.
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Wow. Thank you for that insight, I needed it. I'm not sure why but I've just been thinking the ocd is making me obsess over this situation and not actually distorting my view on it, or what it actually was. But a webiste I looked at did file having 4 yrs between the two people abnormal, and I'm still iffy about the situation where she was sleeping. It just makes me feel wrong.
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you were 10 though, and the fact that you’re acknowledging what you did and you’re not okay with it is a sign that you’re not a monster. A real monster wouldn’t care if it was good or bad and continue to do it. Trust me, you a far from a monster
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Yeah, I may not be a monster now. But knowing I once was is too much to bear. I feel like sexual is so important and a terrible crime. So I feel like a criminal-- even more so for not telling my sister that I made her grope me in my sleep. I just... it's too much for me to handle. I'm weak.
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@worryqueen I would hug you so tight rn but obviously I can’t. You aren’t your past, you’re not a criminal. You weren’t one then, and you aren’t one now. You were 10 years old, as a 10 year old you don’t logically think about things like that. It’s okay
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@ocdgirl$ummer Thank you so much. I feel like I've read too much about the topic. I've looked at articles of children who were actually convicted for things like this, and I guess if theres a 4 yr she gap it's wrong. I have too much info, I guess. Consent is key, that's all I know, and a sleeping person cant consent.
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The reality is: it's not with one second to think about this incident. The more you analyze the more you look up those things in the internet, the worse you will feel teaching your brain that something is important which in reality is not. Every second you deal with this incident is making it worse be it asking others for reassurance, looking in the Internet, or analyzing and ruminating. Every second counts. Instead of concentrating your powers on finding out what happened or to reassure yourself that you are not a bad person you should concentrate your power on just leaving the topic behind.
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Thank you, I needed this reminder. I know the only way to leave it behind is to accept it and forgive myself, but it just feels incomplete in my brain. OCD makes me think theres a missing puzzle piece that needs to fit in, and I hate it.
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Yes I know this is exactly what OCD does. It gives you the feeling that if you only solve this last question everything will be great forever. The longer you prevail not to give into this the less search will become to get this final answer. And as I said you should consider taking SSRIs to make it easier for you.
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It's a tricky and horrible disorder. I'm going to try and find a therapist first to help me with this, then I will consider taking SSRIs. My hypochondria makes me hesitant to take meds.
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Are you aware that you're engaging in loads of compulsions? If they worked, you'd have felt better after confessing to your mom .... But you don't feel better
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I know. I just dont have anyone to say this too rn because I'm not seeing a therapist when I really need to.
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*you are far from a monster
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I know, OCD likes to prevent you from taking meds. It's really tricky.
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(20f) I have been dealing with severe OCD symptoms for as long as I can remember. I recently got diagnosed about a year ago, and even though I know that these thoughts are probably my ocd, I still cant shake them. Growing up I was always very sexually curious. I was sheltered from a lot of things, as I went to a private school and things like sexuality and sex were never talked about. I remember doing some weird sexual things growing up (never affecting another person), looking up taboo sexual things, etc. I always seemed to become aroused no matter what the situation was, even if I just saw someone getting changed. I have no recollection of being SA'd, so i'm wondering where this all came from? Was I just curious and wanted to experiment and try different things? Or am I really a pervert, pedophile, etc. I have all these thoughts racing through my head and it's killing me. Everything I did as a kid I look back on and am disgusted, as those don't align with my views at all today. I never thought growing up thinking these things were wrong, or actually realize what they were until I got older. I'd like to think it was just my curiosity, but i'm not sure. What if i'm in denial and actually do like these things? I just need to know if theres something wrong w me, I cant keep going on like this. Could really use some advice.
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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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I think I know what honestly is what caused my OCD. I’ve never told anyone this but I have to if I want help. When I was either 10 or 11, I think 10 I was at my family’s thanksgiving dinner. Around this time I discovered porn and got addicted. I would watch porn and read erotica. Because of this I guess I wanted to experiment. I feel absolutely horrible just thinking about this but I was playing around with my little cousin, he was around 7 I think and I remember we were playing chase or hide and seek, and I grabbed him and hugged him (something I never done before), and got a boner. I did this for pleasure. That’s all I did that was sexual but I feel so horrible. I try to give myself grace as I was only 10 and didn’t know the consequences of something so disgusting. I keep thinking “what if I went farther and hurt him?”. I talk to him sometimes and he seems comfortable with me and I think he doesn’t even remember this ever happened and just thought I hugged him for some reason all those years ago. I am NOT attracted to him at all but I think this incident and remembering it when I was 14 has caused my OCD such as POCD for all these years. I am 18 now but I feel absolutely horrible. And now it’s even worse because I have been invited to his 15th birthday party in Mexico. I’m traveling all the way to another country just to be near him! Obviously I know I won’t touch him or be innopropriate with him. But what if he has felt uncomfortable with me all this time? He seems fine with me and not uncomfortable around me but still. If I feel as if I go to this trip, I am a horrible person. I don’t know what to do. Am I a horrible person for what I did and continuing to be around him? I remember reading Reddit and Quora stories of similar people who felt horrible and people told them to not feel bad as they were only children and they learned and now know that was wrong and that to not tell anyone as it could only make things extremely awkward.Please help. I know COCSA is a very serious topic that harms people and I feel like a horrible perpetrator now.
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