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- 6y ago
- Date posted
- 6y ago
Oh honey, this is just ocd. I’ve had these thoughts when being intimate with my husband. A main part of my pocd is false memories so I’ve constantly had feelings of checking or trying to ruminate during sex as well. Which made me feel worse. Please don’t despair. One time I read something on a forum that really comforted me. It said that whatever many people are aroused by in their minds, is not something they would ever carry out. Not saying you were aroused by that thought intentionally but you might have felt like it because you were in that sexual moment when the thought came along. To give perspective, some women have a fantasy of being raped at one point or another. Would they ever do such a thing or want it to actually happen to them? Of course not. Basically, thoughts and actions are separate. The difference is that we have ocd and we attach way too much meaning to our thoughts. However It is our actions around us that define us. Acceptance does not mean that we have to accept we enjoy the thoughts, because that would be very hard to accept because it is against our morals and values. Accepting means accepting that the thoughts can come and go as these please, because they are simple thoughts. Nothing else. Anything can come into our mind while we are enjoying sex. I hope this helps some. If this is affecting you so much (not eating, sleeping) try to reach out to a therapist if you haven’t already. Next time it troubles you, practice just letting the thought come and saying ok well it doesn’t mean anything it’s just a thought We are here for you
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- 6y ago
Oh never mind just reread that you said you are seeing a therapist. Excellent. Pedophiles enjoy their thoughts they don’t obsess and worry over them and especially stop eating or sleeping because of them. It is most definitely pocd
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- 6y ago
Your not ! It’s hard and I’ve been there and still at times there with you. They are thoughts that send us on wild journeys. I hate them feel sick distressed and lonely, but the more we play with the thoughts the worse they get, it will get better and you will have ups and downs along the way, as do I ! It’s an horrendous topic but it is what it is and we can get through this
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- 6y ago
Thank you for your response. I am just so afraid that something like this happens again, now it feels even harder to accept the thoughts because OCD is telling me this situation is proof that I actually enjoy them. I just don’t know how to stop thinking about it and I feel like I will never be over this, forever anxious about getting wrong feelings thoughts and emotions, acting wrong. Don’t want to do sexual stuff with myself/boyfriend any longer, I am so scared of this happening again or something else :(
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- 6y ago
Everything your describing is in your head, your not acting on your thoughts/ feelings. Hang in there it will get better.
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- 17w ago
I’m sharing this bc I need advice or even support from anyone who can relate. If you can’t relate and don’t think you’ll say anything helpful or kind pls don’t comment anything… I’ve been struggling with somethings that’s making me question myself. There has been moments while self pleasuring when I get intrusive thoughts, in those moments it feels like I’m enjoying or even self pleasuring myself bc of the thought. Right after I immediately have an anxiety attack and my HEART drops bc it feels terrible I feel like a disgusting monster :( ppl have told me I haven’t done a bad bc of how intense my guilt and panic are but I keep thinking that MAYBE I made a horrible decision in the moment and the guilt is just realising that it’s just wrong this doesn’t make sense to me because I’ve always told myself that I would never act on this in 1 million years and I’ve been known that these things are wrong so I’m just like constantly questioning myself these feelings and exact same situation has happened two times already I even promised myself that I wouldn’t act on anything beforehand and yeah, I still felt like I did act on my thought during my alone time I’m genuinely convinced that I’m a horrible and it’s even got into the point where I don’t wanna be here anymore and I don’t even think this is my OCD :( tbh
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- 15w ago
Sometimes I think " do I like kids?" "Would i get aroused if I saw content with kids?""What if I'm a pedo and cant accept it?" "What if I'm ok with these thoughts?" "What if I'm not distressed enough " "What if I enjoy these thoughts?" , i avoid kids as much as i can, i cant look at them bc I'm scared I'm gonna have some groin like response. I keep testing if I'd get turned on or if I'd have some groinal response to sexual scenarios with kids. Sometimes I think that if I took my life this would be over and i wouldn't have to think about this and i wish i doubted something else instead of things like this. I had similar situations just with different topics such as if i loved or found sexually appealing a guy while in a relationship and i kept asking myself those questions for months and i avoided going to school for weeks and when I went I'd cry and have anxiety attacks. I had it with past actions i obessed over and felt the need to exploit every detail and be honest because otherwise i was being a fraud. I had it for sexual things that happened when i was a child. Im not diagnosed with ocd but should i tell this to my local counselor? Can someone help? Give me advice or tell me anything?
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- 14w ago
I feel like a really terrible person right now, I keep replaying this, and no matter what I can’t remember what happened, it’s like my brain is purposely not letting me think about it. Without wasting any more time, I’ll get into it. Basically, I was at Walmart, and looking at cards with My Dad, I saw anime ones, took pictures of them for my sister, even ones that were anime kids, because I did my best to ignore it, so I looked at a Hunter x Hunter card, I stared at the black haired kid, being all like “ I’m glad I’m not having any thoughts about this, I’m glad I’m having normal thoughts and not thinking anything” I felt happy, then as soon as I looked at killua (white haired kid), everything collapsed. I don’t know what happened, my brain won’t let me remember. But I’ll give bits and pieces. I think that I had false attraction, and something in my head, said “oh, I wouldn’t mind being attracted.” “He is attractive, and I’m attracted to him.” “I remember a girl thinking he is attractive and he is” “ It’s not wrong to be attracted” “ I don’t care about his age” .. something along the lines of that, and now I’m panicking super hard, because I’m worried if I said those things, I feel like I ruined my life that I’m a pe//do and deserve nothing, idk what to do, I feel terrible… I remember when I was having the intrusive thoughts, I was panicking and was worrying, but it kept playing out, and I kept hearing things talk, it was drawn out too long, that now I feel convinced that I was saying those things, I tested it too, and I can confirm that I didn’t say that, but why am I still not convinced? I know I wouldn’t say those things, I was hoping the complete opposite would happen. My brain kept making me feel like it wasn’t wrong and it was okay. Maybe that’s why I’m so convinced I did that. I’m just spiraling super bad right now, I don’t know what to do or what to think, I don’t know if I said that or not… even if I did test it, I genuinely just feel like I said it, and I wanted it, because I still feel uncertain, I still feel like I said it, part of me just wants to be like oh I did and so I can move on, not because I agree with it, I just don’t know what else to do… I’m really scared.
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