katyh
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- 5y
MJocdMJocd
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- 5y
Yes, not family but I always have thoughts like "what if I end up marrying one?" "What if that person I admire is one?" I get thoughts like that and they're disturbing.
katyhkatyh
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- 5y
oh yeah that makes sense! the unknown is always so terrifying, i hope it gets easier for us both
cm&29393cm&29393
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- 5y
Me too!
pureolifepureolife
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- 5y
That is super common! Not just with your theme, but with many others too. For example, people with sexual orientation OCD will fixate on the sexual orientation of others. People with gender identity OCD will fixate on the gender of others. People with religious OCD will fixate on the goodness/morality of others. People with relationship OCD will fixate on others relationships. Whatever it is we’re obsessing about tends to get projected onto others. And that makes sense because a major mental compulsion for themes like this is to compare ourselves to others obsessively. And to scrutinize every little detail, even when those details don’t make sense (people with sexual orientation ocd will often spend a lot of time trying to figure out if they or others “seem” gay/straight based on how they talk, walk, stand, dress, etc.)
katyhkatyh
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- 5y
oh that makes sense!!!
EljaeeeEljaeee
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- 5y
Me too! I'm not a csa survivor, but I still get terrified when I'm around anyone older than me. I guess I just find p*dos so terrifying that if one were in the same vicinity as me I think I'd have a panic attack and pass out. I'm constantly wondering "are they one? Are they gonna look at me or my baby sister?" Or "are they secretly a horrible person?" And yes, this goes for family too. I understand a bit.
katyhkatyh
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- 5y
oh i get the sister thing, im always terrified for my little sisters around uncles or older men even when that havent shown any reason for me to obsessively be worried. i guess there is a healthy level of worry that should exist as a protective measure but when its like this in my head i know i need to try to work on it
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dee012
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- 22w
anyone else?
maybe a therapist can respond or anyone who relates and experiences this also?? im trying to make sense . ever since ocd started, specifically harm ocd and pocd, sexual themes ocd in general, my brain makes everything sexual or gross. or just makes inappropriate connections with quite literally anything. or any person I see I wonder if they are a p, or if they are “like me”, because im fully convinced at times that im some weird or bad person, and then when i see actual criminals etc i cant help but compare myself to them it’s so weird?????? or sometimes I feel like i cant judge a p because im no different than them?? idk its so weird. rn writing this ik im not a p like what im just struggling with really bad ocd and trauma I hope :( It’s just my brain distorts everything and then it makes me feel worse, like “ur an actual p or pervert because see??? ur brain is sexualizing everything?” hopefully this makes sense
Youactlikeyo...
- Date posted
- 21w
Is this apart of ocd?
Hi I just have a few questions! (Im 14 btw) Okay so basically I’m really worried I’ll become a pedo/I already am and I don’t know it yet. I’m also really scared if I SA someone, even tho I don’t want to and I’d never do something like that but I feel like this part of me is saying that I will and it’s really scaring me. I feel so alone and I’m so scared I’m a bad person on the inside and this isn’t ocd and I’m gonna unleash hell on this earth I’m so scared. I’ll get a thought like if I’m walking past someone random it will be like “What if you sa them?” And it scares me so bad I feel horrible for thinking that. Is this apart of it? I feel like I’m always fixated on the topic of sa to check if I would do something like that, I don’t know anymore I just feel like a bad person (btw I have not done anything like that to anyone!)
Anonymous199449
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- 11w
pocd
so like i was like researching spirituality and i saw that when spiritual awakening happens you kind of question yourself and your values then i saw a shadow work video and they said if you judge someone its because somewhere deep down youre like them , so im scared what if im a pedo and someone did a tarot reading on me once and i dont really remember the exact words but they mentioned something about how im avoiding the truth or something like that and the first thing that came to my mind was being a pedo and incest and recently ive been ignoring all the thoughts cause i was exhausted from doing so many compulsions then i got scared that if i go to therapy they will just tell me what i want to hear. im so scared
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