- Username
- imtired
- Date posted
- 3y 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.
"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.
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.
Do some erp. You can do this, you can handle the pain I know you can, you will get through this
Someone please read this. I’m suffering a lot with pocd. It is the worst thing I have ever experienced. It truly makes me feel evil and disgusting and I’ve never hated myself more. The worst part is I have a younger sister who I absolutely adore obviously but now I’m afraid to be around any younger kids even though I know they’re just scary thoughts. I can’t help but think that I should stay away from them even if I have just had these thoughts cross my mind. I feel like this feeling is never going to go away and it’s ruining my life I really don’t know what to do anymore. I feel like I can’t live with this ‘secret’ because I feel like I’m hiding an evil trait. And I can’t stress enough how much I know that they’re not my true thoughts and of course I think it is disgusting and the most vile thing I could think of. And I think that’s why it distresses me so much, because it’s my worst nightmare. But never the less the thoughts are still haunting me no matter what. I really need help because I can’t imagine living with this forever but I can never see it fully going away. When I think about the future even, I feel like I can’t live the life I want because all I’ve ever been sure of is that I want to be a mum and now I feel like I cannot be. What can I do, I feel so helpless and out of control of my own mind.
Can someone just read this? I'm starting to get really afraid this is true. This whole thing is terrible like hell. What scares me even more is I learned some tricks to decrease the thoughts and they have worked but the groinal response is still there and it's terrible. Last night I was watching TV despite the anxiety and tried not responding to the thoughts anxiety or the response. Leading up to the terrible response I was thinking of a attractive woman about 5 seconds before it happened. Then a close-up of a fellow male popped up on a commercial. A little blood went down there. Not enough to even change its size but it scared the shit out of me. Was it me thinking about that woman? Increased blood flow from Anxiety? I turned off the TV and my hands started shaking, shaking has been a recent product of this. The thought of being with a man especially sex is still revolting to me through the entirety of this. ( If I offended anyone I didn't mean too ). I've been in relationships with women and loved it, I have always enjoyed sex with women. But what's up with the groinal response bullshit? All I've ever wanted is a wife and kids and I feel it's being ripped from me. I really hope this is OCD. People here have gone over 15 years with this and I can't take five months? I can barely take this anymore. I want to be myself again. Is that too much to ask God?
Im so drained , I haven’t been diagnosed I’m too scared to go to a doctor and I did tell my mum I think I had ocd and she laughed at me with disbelief because Im not a clean freak . My last option is suicide if I’m being honest I’m only 17 and I’m already having these uncomfortable thoughts that make me cry for hours . I can’t go on social media I can’t speak to my family I can’t be around kids , animals without having a fear of getting turned on or feeling stuff or thinking stuff . The thoughts get so believable idk if there real or fake . It makes me extremely uncomfortable “what if I like this feeling “ I have to constantly check myself my body if a video comes up of a kid . What happens if I don’t even have ocd and I’m just a pedo . I’ve been through a lot of stuff but this has been the most draining , depressing period of my life . I can’t eat , I’m starting to think I’m depressed again . I can’t sleep , I don’t know myself anymore . I’m scared of myself , my future , what happens if Im becoming one , since I’m so young . I don’t want to be here anymore I don’t deserve it . I don’t deserve to have friends I don’t deserve anything but to rot in my room . I don’t believe I can get help I don’t believe I can get better . I just want to be normal I’m so jealous of people that just think normally .
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