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I've read a lot about ocd as well as people's experiences on here as well as my own occasional experience with urges and they are are normal with ocd. Ocd can make you believe you want to do a lot of things because it is the doubting disease, making you doubt your morals, doubt the fact you have ocd, doubt anything. You are NOT ALONE. If you're able, see a therapist, if not, continue to look into tools to help your anxiety. It takes practice and it SUCKS and is so hard and you don't trust yourself but trust me, it is worth it.
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You can get through it. It's normal for ocd
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I have been through what you are going through it's all normal for someone who has ocd. You just have to learn to manage these thoughts and feelings and not let them control you
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And let them go
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I have found the hardest thing is having experiences that don’t feel normal and having a therapist that won’t explain to me what is ocd normal since she doesn’t want to reassure me. I just want assurance that the urge to act out is a normal experience. That the feelings I have are normal and I am on the right path. I feel like I am wandering down a path not knowing if I am on the right path. Thanks for the responses.
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I used to feel so alone when I had POCD (which has returned). I’m almost convinced it’s the most prominent theme now.
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- 23w
TW! please someone comment When I was 12 or 13 I used to babysit a little girl, she had a habit of keeping her hand in her diaper and was always touching herself, there was one point I was changing her diaper and noticed she was really red. I had separated her private parts and checked the inner area for signs of infection. She was okay, just some really really bad diaper rash. I know this is what happened yet my brain is trying to convince me that I hurt her, and that I wanted to do it, I know I would never hurt a child but with all the anxiety I feel when I think about it I'm starting to wonder if I did do it because I wanted to hurt her, I don't wanna be a p, I don't wanna hurt innocent children, I used to never have these thoughts but now I do and I'm so scared to tell my therapist as she hasn't diagnosed me with ocd yet. I don't want her to think I'm a p nor do I wanna hurt kids, but my brain keeps telling me that I do and that I'm just lying to myself and everyone around me, ik I would never do something that could harm a child but I keep getting these thoughts and their inappropriate and I just want them to stop, does anyone have any tips on how to help myself? I keep turning to my boyfriend for reassurance but ik that that's just a quick fix and that ill be spiraling about it again.Please help
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18+ TW! POCD Is this still Pocd. I’m so scared For example, I’ll be feeling aroused over a child and feel genuinely aroused like I want the arousal and I’ll stop forcing it to not come because in the moment it feels like I want it in the moment so alllow the arousal to happen. Another example is I’ll feel aroused over a kid and my ocd will say make your blanket touch your private areas for a feeling over kids and I’ll do it in the moment because I feel aroused over the intrusive thought of the child. Another example is I’ll even think “yes I want this arousal over the child” and in the moment it feels like I want it I hate all of this after and do many compultions
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- 19w
It’s scary how uncomfortable I feel around kids. Whenever I’m in close proximity of them I just feel so much dread and fear that I just wish to not be around them for the fact that I’m gonna feel or think something I shouldn’t. But wouldn’t that be an indication of something more? A few days ago I was in an uncomfortable situation where I was around one and those thoughts were there and I started to feel self aware of how uncomfortable I was, like maybe my discomfort was because I DO see them in that way and not for any OCD reason, and how I act around them just isn’t normal. I did try to just move past it like I was supposed to but it all felt wrong. And now I’m thinking “am I ever gonna be able to do anything without feeling uncomfortable around them? At what point does someone question that there’s something terribly wrong with me because of it?” Has anyone else experienced this with POCD? How do you go about it despite your discomfort?
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