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Wanting to understand why pedophiles are the way they are does not prove or disprove anything. I don't think you would accuse anyone else who had that curiosity of being one themselves. It's possible that your mind has convived you that you are the worst possible thing, a pedophile, which is why you don't feel as much disgust. Right now, you believe yourself to be one, so you may not want to feel as much strong emotion. I think you should try to recognize when you're attempting to analyze your emotions. Instead of letting yourself think "I should be more angry" and "Why am I not more upset", attempt to tell yourself there is no "correct" way to feel emotions. "I am feeling what I feel and that's okay" and move on. No emotional or thought checking. I hope this helps.
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- 4y ago
Yeah thank you ! I have to work more on that
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- 4y ago
Yes. Before POCD I hated pedos. I still do but not nearly as much as I did. I think it’s because we feel like we are one and hating them makes us feel worse about ourselves even tho we are not one at all. Sometimes I see stuff on the news and I’m like of that’s not that bad but it is horrible and I know it’s horrible. OCD is weird
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- 4y ago
This is exactly that ! When I say those things are horrible, ocd makes me feel an hypocrite, because maybe like you said we feel like one of them !
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- 4y ago
@abcd33 Yeah that’s what I believe atleast. I have defended sex offenders in my head ever since I got POCD even tho what they did was horrible and they have done evil things. For some reason now that I have POCD its like I want to stick up for them for some reason
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- 4y ago
Because of my POCD I've developed empathy for pedophiles. They didn't ask for their thoughts and feelings either. As long as they don't act on them, I have no problem with them Child molesters/rapists on the other hand definitely deserve a lot of prison time. I hope they get help though. They're still human and besides it will make kids safer. I don't really hate them, if for no other reason than I'm more concerned with the survivors.
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- 25w ago
So I was on a hat chat gpt and it said that people who are non-offenders experience distress and anxiety and disgust and depression and they feel ashamed of being a non-offender like WHAT like that's honestly terrifying and I'm so scared because that's how I've been feeling like when I'm out I get anxiety too especially when I see a younger person I always been attracted to MEN my whole life can people turn into monsters and I don't even care if they have problems if there attracted to kids then there sick in the head like don't care like this has been sharing me soo much and the worst part about it is that they said some are in denial or suppress their attractions I'm so done...... I can not do this this is too much I would rather be gone from this earth than find out that I might be one like you have to be kidding me if you're attracted to young people and desire that you're sick and dead to me you're a monster I don't care like its disgusting. for this eole some people are suffering from POCD like me are scared to think about that and I'm terrified.
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- 15w ago
Trying not to seek reassurance, but rather connect the dots on my OCD and possible reasons as to why I am the way I am. I have severe OCD (or at least I hope I do) mainly surrounding POCD. I've had symptoms of OCD the majority of my life but this theme has come up more recently. When I was a kid, and i'm talking 6-7, I was first exposed to some really gross adult content online. It was introduced to me by a friend of mine around the same age of me. I saw some really disgusting things that a 6-7 year old should definitely not see. This was not a one time occurrence, as I had been exposed to taboo topics online years to come after that, such as the same friend introducing me to Omegle... And i'm sure you can imagine how that went, theres a lot of genuinely disgusting human beings on there. Coming back to the reason for making this post; is it possible to early exposure to this content could be one of the reasons I struggle with POCD? It genuinely scares me to death because you hear that real p*dos dealt with simular situations when they were kids, so thats kind of making me feel that this could be more than OCD, and I could be a genuinely bad person. My POCD feels so real, that at times i'm fully convinced its not OCD. Sometimes I can't even distinguish the feelings of attraction between a younger person and an older person, except for the feeling of anxiety and fear. Its really hard to explain without going into detail, but it just feels so real. Some feedback on this would be great, thank you all.
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- 12w ago
Being exposed to taboo p*rn as young as first grade ruined my life and now ocd is making me pay for it. I have so much guilt for being a child/teen and looking at taboo stuff, and it was all fictional or anime or whatever but it was still so so gross. and I didn't realize It because I had been used to it at so young 🫠 I think what haunts me most is when I was a kid/young teen (like 12-14ish) and didn't have access to p*rn I'd imagine stuff similar to what I'd seen in the art. I can't even believe I'd imagine scenarios involving kid characters or whatever because it had been so normalized to me and I assumed it was normal since it was fiction. I'm 23 now so it's been a decade since I've done anything like that and I've never had the urge to since but still. I've NEVER been attracted to kids or had any urges or anything ever, even when I was addicted. The thought makes me want to vomit, I'd rather die than associate anything sexual with kids/minors and I think people who groom or assault kids are vile. But I still feel like the fact that I imagined stuff similar to the things I read sometimes when I was young is proof I'm a p*do. I don't think people would believe me if I said I'm not. I just feel like I don't deserve to live or that if I do, I'm living a lie. I know 'I was a kid too' but even when I was 13/14 I read/imagined stuff with characters younger than me because I thought it was normal. I'm so disgusted. I've had this theme for so long I'm starting to wonder if ocd is right. I feel too ashamed to tell my therapist.
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