TW for people with pocd Okay so since I've been on this app I've been getting ocd about people with pocd? I feel extremely bad about this, because I know how awful it is to have sexual intrusive thoughts (not about kids though), and I want to be supportive, but my mind keeps saying "what if you just encouraged someone who actually will harm children?" Maybe I shouldn't post this, I'll delete if necessary because I don't want to make anyone feel worse just because of my own anxiety... but even irl people around me keep making pedo jokes and it makes me feel so horrible, I guess I'm just really sensitive about the matter, I want to protect any child of any potential harm

What you're saying makes perfect sense, I just get a lot of ocd about being morally correct, I feel like I must help people with pocd and then I have so many doubts... because the whole erp practice seems to be about acceptance, but what if in one, singular case, someone is actually going to do harm and I encouraged it?

@rosejane13 "What if..." is classic OCD ☺.

@Ben84 Yea okay you got me there lmao

It's horrible how ocd picks on the things we care the most about.. I'm so sorry you have to go though that I guess it's impossible to be 100% certain of anything, especially on the internet, and ocd hates uncertainty and prefers to break everything down before any potential threat, however small it is. I'm guessing that's why you blocked them

I'm sorry I made you feel this way, I think this app is extremely good for people with ocd but can also be very triggering sometimes and could make things worse.. I also have intrusive thoughts so trust me I know that's it's not based on reality!

@rosejane13 Aww no don't worry!! :) the only thing is that now i'm fearing people see me as a p*do for having intrusive thoughts :(

@kaido I think people without ocd could never understand the vast majority of our thoughts, that's what this community is for, and that's why I'm really sorry that I made you feel unsafe here. I wish I could've posted where people with pocd wouldn't see it, because even though I really felt the need to talk about it, you don't deserve to suffer because of my ocd, I'm sure you have enough anxiety as it is :)

@rosejane13 Thank you so much! you sound very sweet :)! i myself at literally a child but managed to get POCD, it really is a hell :( I managed to convince my parents to let me donate to the kids who went through abuse though! i would do anything to help them and i have POCD :)!

@kaido You also sound very sweet! And even though I don't have pocd I can definitely relate, I don't even like to talk about my intrusive thoughts because they're so disgusting.. And that's an amazing thing to do! :)