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- 4y ago
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- 4y ago
I’ve had OCD for over 25 years. I was around your age it turned into Pure-O. It started with just one thought about hurting someone, and that turned into 15 years of untreated and severe harm OCD. I had other themes during that time as well. I had all the same concerns and fears you have. “Am I going crazy?” “Am I going to snap and act on these thoughts?” “Am I a monster?” “Is my life over?” Here I am, 35 years old, and my life is better than it’s ever been. I’m so excited for the future, because I’ve got so much life to live and so much left to do. It can, and does, get better. The good news is a place like NOCD exists now. When this was happening to me, there wasn’t even a therapist in the state I lived who has experience with ERP. I can’t promise it will be easy. I can’t promise you won’t struggle. But I can promise you it isn’t over. Not by a lot.
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- 4y ago
"I'd rather die than harm a child" literally the furthest thing from a p*** that's possible. Real p*** don't worry about their attraction. They're encouraged to act on it. They even feel like they're enlightened because of it. You're acting the complete opposite of that.
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- 4y ago
Oh my dude I get the same thoughts. I dont know why I have groinal responses but apparently it’s because where compulsively testing if its true. But if you stop thinking and go to think about something else, it usually stops. I know exactly how you feel. My stomach churns from the thought and I was in the stage your in a few days ago. I’m alright now. You have to focus on something else. Read a book, watch a show, these things are going to have triggers sometimes, push through.
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- 4y ago
Do some erp. You can do this, you can handle the pain I know you can, you will get through this
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- 25w 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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- 18w ago
Like I'm not even scared I feel numb and ever since that night I've completely went down hill Idk what to do the feeling i felt this time genuily felt like i liked it and i didnt even have anxiety at that moment and now I'm panicking I really hope this is still OCD like I'm sorry if I'm still asking for reassurance but im really worried like it felt good in that moment I don't understand what's going on like I hope it was a false feeling and not something real.....like this has happened before but Idk 😭😭😭😭 I really don't know what to I don't want to turn into a p word I don't this I've been sleeping all day I still do compulsions a little to get rid of the thoughts but I've been getting sexual thoughts too and I don't want them but I feel like I do I don't understand I though I was getting better but I guess every time I get better everything gets worse..
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- 17w ago
Every time I go to bed late and I’m falling asleep, I suddenly get an intrusive thought of a child’s face and my groinal area always responds to it. It’s such an uncomfortable experience. I am way too tired to try and freak out so I end up falling asleep. The next morning I’m always trying to figure out whether I had the groinal response first or after the thought. I start giving OCD power but it feels like If I let it go, then I’m in denial or whatever. I don’t want to ever do anything sexual with a child. I don’t even feel comfortable talking platonically with people who are 17, much less a child. My therapist says that I have a deep rooted fear that I’m this horrible person and that OCD loves to feed off of it. When you get a groinal response, it makes the thought that much more real. I never want these things to happen. I want to only be into adults. It’s so discomforting and stressful. Especially since I’m hyper checking how anxious I am, and if I find I didn’t really have much anxiety, then I’m like “well if I didn’t have anxiety, what does this mean?” And more questions occur til I end up in a rabbit hole
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