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- 4y ago
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- 4y ago
I am so sorry you are struggling! I did therepy with a therepist who wasn’t a specialist in OCD, and she was great and all, but I always put off sharing my obsessions with her. I was afraid if I told her about my history of HOCD she would say I’m just in denial. People with HOCD deep down I have realized really don’t want these thoughts becuase they don’t emotionally connect with them. Not becuase they are repressing, there’s a differance. For me I think realizing that my OCD tries to latch onto important aspects of our identity, like sexuality, moral code, helps to realize OCD isn’t me.
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- 4y ago
what’s the difference between repressing and not wanting the thoughts
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- 4y ago
Not sure who told you this. Not sure it really matters. If there was some woman out there who did realize that: cool. That has nothing to do with you and how your treatment would go. Seeing an ocd specialist and doing ERP is the only way to recover from ocd. And you shouldn’t discount it. https://battlingtheocddemon.wordpress.com/2014/11/04/erp-works-so-why-wont-you-do-it/amp/
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- 4y ago
I understand your hesitation with finding a therapist. I had a counselor and I was too afraid to tell them my thoughts mostly because I was afraid of their answer and diagnosis. But trust me when you find a good therapist that will take the time to treat you and help you, you’ll feel so much better. I really like my therapist and we’ve built a trustful relationship and ERP treatment that is best suited for me. It does take time and you might not be ready to express your thoughts to your therapist right away. Still don’t be afraid to find one or ask as many questions as you can. I feel so much better and I’m sure you will too.
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- 22w ago
I know I need therapy. I have a flare up every three months that rocks my world— it’s been like this for four years. I’m just too scared. I’m too scared to have a therapist tell me I’m a lesbian. I’m too scared to do ERP and have it not work because it wasn’t actually OCD. I’m too scared for the ERP to work and me finally feel comfortable with being bisexual or a lesbian. I don’t want any of that to happen. I don’t understand how I can get over this and still be straight. I’m petrified at the thought of therapy, but what is going to happen to me?
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- 18w ago
So I was on a hat chat gpt and it said that people who are non-offenders experience distress and anxiety and disgust and depression and they feel ashamed of being a non-offender like WHAT like that's honestly terrifying and I'm so scared because that's how I've been feeling like when I'm out I get anxiety too especially when I see a younger person I always been attracted to MEN my whole life can people turn into monsters and I don't even care if they have problems if there attracted to kids then there sick in the head like don't care like this has been sharing me soo much and the worst part about it is that they said some are in denial or suppress their attractions I'm so done...... I can not do this this is too much I would rather be gone from this earth than find out that I might be one like you have to be kidding me if you're attracted to young people and desire that you're sick and dead to me you're a monster I don't care like its disgusting. for this eole some people are suffering from POCD like me are scared to think about that and I'm terrified.
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- 12w ago
I feel so sad, alone, scared and hopeless. Until two months ago there was not even the remote possibility of being anything other than heterosexual and now the idea that I could find out that I was lesbian or bisexual terrifies me to death. Everything was born from the fact that I didn't feel sexual desire towards my ex-boyfriend and I started to be afraid that it was because I was a lesbian... how can I be a lesbian or bisexual if everything was born from this? I would like to run away from myself and my head. I would really like to go back and go back to my life before. I can't take it anymore. I just want to live my life like before
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