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I know how you feel. I remember hearing that most pedophiles despise their thoughts and never mean to hurt anyone, and since I heard that I’ve been so worried I’m as bad as that. It made me really concerned that I felt bad for pedophiles, and then I became concerned about my morals and what if I didn’t find things wrong enough. As scary as it is, it’s just another OCD rabbit hole to keep you worried. Sitting with the uncertainty that maybe you are a bad person, maybe you’re not, is so hard but it’s where the progress comes! Don’t fall down the rabbit hole ?
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I get what you mean, I wish I could do the maybe maybe not thing but I'm terrified of the answer
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@Makki23 I understand how you feel. But that fear of accepting true unknown is why this is bothering you so much ?
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@199903 You're right :( it really does terrify me
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This is one person’s opinion on the internet and likely didn’t take into account the possibility of someone with harm ocd coming across it. Was Hitler just a human like all of us? Yes, he was. I think the person writing that wanted people to recognize that so we can recognize that the mechanisms that put his evil in power could happen anywhere, and we need to be vigilant not to contribute to a society where that’s ok. Hitler was human, yes. We’re all capable of great good and great evil. We could spend hours discussing the nature of humanity and hitler’s humanity but what you need to know is this: None of this changes the fact that ruminating about it is ocd. And you need to treat these ruminations like ocd. Look at the thoughts and say “Ok thought, I see you,” and sit with the discomfort. If you need help, doing that, have you ever tried the new SOS feature on this app?
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Thing is I don't want to becable of horrible acts like that. I see what you mean tho. Also I tired SOS but idk it doesn't seem to help....maybe it takes a few times
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@Makki23 Sometimes it isn’t about feeling better right away but allowing yourself to sit with the discomfort, and know that discomfort will go away eventually without compulsions. What kind of compulsions do you usually do when you have these intrusive thoughts?
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@Nikki1809 I tend to have a lot of mental ones. I question and debate the thoughts, I ask for reassurance/try to reassure myself, a lot of mental compulsions
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@Makki23 Ok. Try not to do those things. Just do whatever you normally would be doing right now if the thoughts weren’t there. If the thoughts show up, don’t push them away, just say “hi thought,” and then keep doing what your doing.
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@Makki23 I have basically the exact same compulsions for my obsessions. I felt so anxious and so trapped and was convinced I was a terrible person. It was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done to let the thoughts be without reacting to them, but it does get easier little by little!
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@199903 Thank you guys,I'm definitely going to work on it♥️ I really am grateful for both of you commenting and sharing your advice :)
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@Makki23 You’re welcome. I’m happy to talk more if you need some more help. It’s definitely worth talking about this with a professional though since they’ll have good advice on how to tackle this with ERP! With time, this becomes just another thought that doesn’t mean much to you. You can do it!!
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@199903 ^^seconding this. And I’m glad if I could help. :)
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@Nikki1809 Thank you you guys are amazing ❤️
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I can’t feel happy I can’t forget how these thoughts felt and I’m actually believing I’m bad, I imagined my intrusive thoughts about stabbing on purpose it felt like I know how it feels to do that physical action and I like how it feels and then I got this feeling like I was suddenly really happy or excited about it like I discovered why evil people get a thrill out of doing evil things and it’s sticking with me I can’t forget about it or argue with it or get rid of it normally I can find reasons to know it’s not true and forget about it but this time it felt like the feeling actually came from me as if I genuinely felt happy and thought it would be enjoyable or pleasurable/appealing to do that evil thing it doesn’t feel ego dystonic i feel abnormal like im pretending to be normal I don’t even have much anxiety I just hate my life im having this i don’t know what to do unless I can find a reason to move on and think no that wasn’t real then I can’t move on everytime I rember how it felt or that feeling of being happy it feels like oh my god like I can the saved or helped please I need a solution. If it’s true that I actually felt like that horrible thing could be enjoyable can I be helped? No I can’t that means I’m bad and now I can’t be helped and have to be in a mental home because I swear it felt like it was me who felt happy not a fake feeling and I’m jsut fighting against it because I wasn’t always evil but I swear it feels like I actually liked it and it appealed to me I don’t know how to deal with this
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I was checking out a community of adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse, and there was a post that said that pedos sometimes don't even know that they are that, or they don't realize it, like a racist person who won't admit that they're racist. I also saw a comment that mentioned that a ped0 tried to groom them and then when the victim realized, the predator simply said that "they were going to therapy and that their behaviours were a product of childhood abuse" They also said that people like that often did mental gymnastics because they had a personality disorder. This made me feel extremely anxious because, what if that's the case for me? I did things from 10 to 15 years old that made me extremely afraid and shameful, and thinking about the possibility of being that, i didn't abuse or groomed anyone but i saw disturbing things on the internet. Stating the things i did are sometimes accompanied by saying the abuses i experienced as a child, this worries me that it is a gigantic mental gymnastics to evade responsability or to deny being a paraphilic. This is horrible
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I shouldn’t have done this (trigger trigger trigger!!) So about a month ago..maybe I watched this video (as a compulsion to prove to myself) The video was called “interview with a p3d0” And basically it was what it says, I watched or more like listened to half of it…after I was disgusted by the person, but now all I can think of is every little thing I do, I feel as if tho I’m monitoring every thought/moment and feeling I have it’s torturous and I hate it..I feel disgusting, the person in the video has empathy and sympathy and had those feelings yk, I can’t explain it you’d have to watch the video yourself but please don’t it will ruin your journey…I feel more hopeless then before, my OCD is telling me so many things trying to convince me things that Ik aren’t true, I’m just really scared I don’t want to be that person I want to be a good cousin and person to my family, I’m sick of my head and myself, I’m so tired that sometimes I can’t even think straight, my head is always in pain and idek how to help myself..compulsions have been becoming more and more exhausting… I need advice or even someone to relate to, I understand I shouldn’t have done what I did but idk how to forget it.. I had made this post already but when someone replied I couldn’t see it for some reason so I’m uploading it again
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