- Date posted
- 6y ago
- Date posted
- 6y ago
I know I always feel like deep down, I’m some kind of weird sicko. And the worst part is I believe it. I just wish I could look and a kid and see a kid and move on. I hate OCD
- Date posted
- 6y ago
i know it doesn’t make sense. but i feel like we just get so caught up into our heads. and we overthink things so much. it scares us. just remember you unwanted thoughts are not real and they dont define you. ocd is a pain in the ass. remember to breathe and to meditate
- Date posted
- 6y ago
I feel you @isai. It’s always perplexing to me that the brain goes so haywire. @carrot a vulnerable self theme means areas where a person’s sense of self or identity can more easily be damaged or undermined. It’s not uncommon for pretty much every OCD sufferer to have had some dichotomous experiences in childhood, be it abuse, bullying, inconsistent parenting. Stuff that creates a conflict in your fundamental environments. This conflict becomes internalised and leads to a vulnerable self theme in key domains (sexuality, morality, scrupulosity). Doesn’t mean they have or do change, but you as a person or vulnerable to being influenced by others, or your own inner critic so to speak. We know there is no conflict but we feel one. And that often originated in childhood. So the increased need for control provides comfort even if it’s small magical beliefs. But an unstable environment means this childlike thinking hangs around more than it should, and it grows like the psychological cancer that it is. Until you hit life stressors like leaving home, starting college, your first job, major relationship breakup. Then the ‘ocd’ takes it’s mask off
- Date posted
- 6y ago
I'm struggling from the same. Honestly though it's extremely debilitating.. all I guess is it's HOW you respond. With this theme it's controversial. The right kind of CBT is needed
- Date posted
- 6y ago
No. Your brain is just very aware. I’m getting there now and I’m bringing the pictures on. I’m fucking sick to death of being bullied! Problem for now is this latest bout has made me anxious during sex so struggle for ages to get a proper hard on even if I either let or even encourage the paedophilic imagery to be there. You gotta do the same. You’ll never find yourself again until you turn on the dragon and find you for yourself-not from constant reassurance gathering here on this app. I’m gonna use it once a day and wean myself off. I need to believe in myself, based on absolutely no one else’s input.
- Date posted
- 6y ago
Never forget that at the heart of OCD is a vulnerable self theme in key domains. That is what needs to be challenged. And the work needs to be done to meet that challenge.
- Date posted
- 6y ago
What's a vulnerable self theme
- Date posted
- 6y ago
I totally get this, while my medication has been helping and I feel better I still can feel spikes with certain things and it’s not always but sometimes when I see pictures of kids I’ll spike and sometimes I won’t but I realized I can’t let this hold me back. It’s been really hard to be intimate with my boyfriend but I’ve pushed through recently a few times because I refuse to let it ruin my intimacy. It makes it hard for me to enjoy things but I’m trying, I try to focus on him and the moment. It’s also like it’s become like anything sexually. Like even adults being sexual triggers me? I’m just like what the hell there’s nothing wrong with THIS I think my brain just gets scared and wants to avoid anything sexual now.
Related posts
- Date posted
- 15w ago
Trying not to seek reassurance, but rather connect the dots on my OCD and possible reasons as to why I am the way I am. I have severe OCD (or at least I hope I do) mainly surrounding POCD. I've had symptoms of OCD the majority of my life but this theme has come up more recently. When I was a kid, and i'm talking 6-7, I was first exposed to some really gross adult content online. It was introduced to me by a friend of mine around the same age of me. I saw some really disgusting things that a 6-7 year old should definitely not see. This was not a one time occurrence, as I had been exposed to taboo topics online years to come after that, such as the same friend introducing me to Omegle... And i'm sure you can imagine how that went, theres a lot of genuinely disgusting human beings on there. Coming back to the reason for making this post; is it possible to early exposure to this content could be one of the reasons I struggle with POCD? It genuinely scares me to death because you hear that real p*dos dealt with simular situations when they were kids, so thats kind of making me feel that this could be more than OCD, and I could be a genuinely bad person. My POCD feels so real, that at times i'm fully convinced its not OCD. Sometimes I can't even distinguish the feelings of attraction between a younger person and an older person, except for the feeling of anxiety and fear. Its really hard to explain without going into detail, but it just feels so real. Some feedback on this would be great, thank you all.
- Young adults with OCD
- Students with OCD
- False Memory OCD
- Mid-life adults with OCD
- "Pure" OCD
- POCD
- LGBTQ+ with OCD
- Date posted
- 10w ago
(20f) I have been dealing with severe OCD symptoms for as long as I can remember. I recently got diagnosed about a year ago, and even though I know that these thoughts are probably my ocd, I still cant shake them. Growing up I was always very sexually curious. I was sheltered from a lot of things, as I went to a private school and things like sexuality and sex were never talked about. I remember doing some weird sexual things growing up (never affecting another person), looking up taboo sexual things, etc. I always seemed to become aroused no matter what the situation was, even if I just saw someone getting changed. I have no recollection of being SA'd, so i'm wondering where this all came from? Was I just curious and wanted to experiment and try different things? Or am I really a pervert, pedophile, etc. I have all these thoughts racing through my head and it's killing me. Everything I did as a kid I look back on and am disgusted, as those don't align with my views at all today. I never thought growing up thinking these things were wrong, or actually realize what they were until I got older. I'd like to think it was just my curiosity, but i'm not sure. What if i'm in denial and actually do like these things? I just need to know if theres something wrong w me, I cant keep going on like this. Could really use some advice.
- Date posted
- 6w ago
Hi I just have a few questions! (Im 14 btw) Okay so basically I’m really worried I’ll become a pedo/I already am and I don’t know it yet. I’m also really scared if I SA someone, even tho I don’t want to and I’d never do something like that but I feel like this part of me is saying that I will and it’s really scaring me. I feel so alone and I’m so scared I’m a bad person on the inside and this isn’t ocd and I’m gonna unleash hell on this earth I’m so scared. I’ll get a thought like if I’m walking past someone random it will be like “What if you sa them?” And it scares me so bad I feel horrible for thinking that. Is this apart of it? I feel like I’m always fixated on the topic of sa to check if I would do something like that, I don’t know anymore I just feel like a bad person (btw I have not done anything like that to anyone!)
Be a part of the largest OCD Community
Share your thoughts so the Community can respond