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You might be a heartless monster.. or you might not. You might very well hurt your loved ones eventually..or you might not hurt them. you may not ever be able to feel love again, or you may feel love tomorrow.Who knows? No one can know the future. Accept the constant uncertainty of your worst fear coming true, and do this without doing compulsions, and ur ocd will lessen. Trust me, this is the only way to freedom!
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you re not psychopath! that happens to me too
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youāre not a heartless monster, I think when people tend to overthink what they said or how they responded to a situation, it can feel like you did something wrong when you didnāt. words used many times start to lose their meanings. since you are having anxiety about becoming a psychopath, your mind automatically caught on to the fact that you didnāt feel anything when saying ā I love youā. completely normal:) it becomes so much of a habit. calming down and meditating too can help with feeling something again:)
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