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- sophie02
- Date posted
- 4y ago
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- lizardgurllizardgurl
- Date posted
- 4y ago
hi! i know it's really scary these thoughts and feelings, but that's all they are thoughts and feelings! they're not the truth, and they don't define who you are on the inside. you are just overwhelemed and getting anxiety over this! you have control how u react to these things, you got this!
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- sophie02sophie02
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Thank u! Your encouragement means so so much and it helps to know I’m not the only one who has struggled with this❤️
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- 2dollars2dollars
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Its ok!! The fact that you are worried about it means you know that it's not ok and that you don't wanna do that to them! I hope you are able to get through this and you feel a little better!?
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- sophie02sophie02
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Thank you! Your support means a lot to me?
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- ARTnotOCDARTnotOCD
- Date posted
- 4y ago
I’ve had to check my dog’s penis before for a tick, not just the hairy outside...the cool your jets part... (Thank goodness it was just dirt.). It felt so odd and I didn’t know what he thought about it, and then when it was only dirt, it was like, “Did I just want to do that deeper inspection? Like did I know it wasn’t a tick?” Ya know what? I just wanted to make sure my baby was safe. He just thought it was a nice belly rub except for when I removed that speck of dirt off him, which he was still ok with. Regular belly rubs resumed, and only OCD had anything more to say about it. I have so many other stories about how often I’ve felt weird because I touched his penis during a belly rub, or when I have to check his anal glands often, when girlfriends and I notice how muscular his legs are, or when he lies on my breast or my lap (but maybe with a foot on my crotch), or even when he would try to get on the bed if I was being intimate with my partner. (Hooray for closing doors or dog crates to solve that!). I know that I don’t want to harm my pup in anyway (even if I have an intrusive image of physical breaking his arms while I trim his nails.) I remember the OCD is not me. And I keep rubbing the belly, letting him lie on my lap however he’s comfortable, or whatever else triggers. I don’t really even have to sit with the anxiety at all anymore. At this point I just repeat that it’s the OCD and continue respectfully loving and caring for my boy.
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- sophie02sophie02
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Thank you!! This was so so helpful I feel like you really understand. The fact that you were able to get over it gives me so much hope and is so encouraging. Thank you?
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- Evelyn4416Evelyn4416
- Date posted
- 4y ago
I have dealt with this before! It’s super hard because they’re like your babies! I was dealing with it with my dog and my cat, both intrusive thoughts of sexual and violent nature. The best way to overcomes this is to continue what your doing of petting and being around them. If you begin to start avoiding them, it’ll make it worse. At first it was very distressing to be around my cat having these thoughts, but I continued to have him close and “facing that fear” so to say, and not it barely bothers me anymore. I hope you are able to get through this, you got it ?
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- sophie02sophie02
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Thank you! The fact that you were able to overcome it gives me hope and is so encouraging. Sending hugs?
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- myocdstory
- Date posted
- 4y ago
"zOCD false memories" HI... I'm so sorry for bothering you... I'm not looking for reassurence, not at all. Just some sympathy? I have the strangest and ugliest feeling that I may have done sexual things to my pets but I just forgot about them. I truly don't remember ever doing anything wrong or weird to them, but that feeling doesn't vanish... Everytime I look at them, that feeling resurfaces. I continue to interact with them (exposure i guess) but this feeling doesn't get any smaller... Am I the only one? It helps me a lot to know I'm not alone... Or that this is normal in ocd. I feel that feeling similar to "whenever you leave the house, you feel like you forgot something but you go through your belongings and nothing is amiss but that feeling doesn't vanish" I guess the reason why I am so worried about it is... If something actually happened, I have to kill myself... I keep thinking about about possible scenarios and see if anything could have happened but I remember nothing...
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- crunchwrapbilly
- Date posted
- 47w ago
ZOCD?
Does anyone else strugfle really bad with ZOCD? Its scary for me because as much as I have a genuine care for animals, Im scared to ever own any in the future because I dont want to hurt them or do anything wrong with them. Im scared sometimes even just seeing stray dogs (not bc im scared of them, but bc of the intrusive thoughts about them...) i dont want to live like this :(
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- Beachpie
- Date posted
- 46w ago
I’m scared
I got diagnosed with ocd recently from my therapist after having years of symptoms since I was a toddler and recently I have had a terrible dream with beastiality in it about 3 months ago and I woke up and cried. I went through the day as usual and then I told one of my friends and I sobbed because that is the last thing I have ever thought about in my life. Luckily my friend was there for me, but then the OCD kicked in. I’ve been having horrible thoughts and I’m scared, I don’t want to do anything to animals never have I ever had thoughts of such. I have two pit bulls that are my sweet babies and I have never had thoughts of anything to do with beastiality in my whole life and now I’m 20 just now being scared of this. It has been the worst ocd obsession I have had in a long time the last one I had lasted 3 years. I’ve been wanting to lock myself in my room and not look at my dogs because I’m afraid to even let them sleep in my room anymore. I stay up all night sometimes because I’m scared I’ll see another dream. My mind is starting to make think I want those thoughts and I’m so scared I’m tearing up whole typing this. I’ve been contemplating suicide because of this fear of doing sexual acts to an animal I would rather not live. I hate living like this and it has been hard to sleep with my partner because now I’m afraid to have intercourse which I have always been able to do with my partner no problem. But now the beastiality OCD has ruined my life and I don’t know what to do.
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