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This is an intrusive thought that got stuck. Please stop trying to seek reassurance and sit with the thought until it becomes less scary.
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I hope so but i am really worried what if I really did that
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i know it seems like they're wanting reassureance but, to me it doesnt seem that way as they're saying how they feel negative or otherwise. they are just having a very bad intrusive thought and sometimes it gets us going down a spiral. but please try to be a little respectful as i read what you said as rude even though i think you werent trying to be
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Glad to help! Hang in there- there is always a light at the end of an OCD spiral even if it doesn't seem like it in the moment
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I really hope so. Thankyou for your support I really wanted that
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You are not a monster at all. Ive dealt with the same thing. If you didnt have any anxiety or guilt about the situation then it would be different. True pedophiles could care less about hurting kids. Ive dealt with POCD for 20 years and still have good days and bad days. Hang in there. POCD is a living nightmare but it can get better
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Hey is there any way to contact you like your discord? I am suffering a lot and I think you could really help me. Sorry if that is too much to ask
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The fact that you're worried confirms that it is an intrusive thought.
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I am really planning to do chemical castration so that atleast then I would lead a good life I guess
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@nohope123 Have you spoken to a therapist versed in OCD about this?
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@LMB034 No I cannot afford a therapist tbh
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@nohope123 I'm sorry to hear you are in that situation. Maybe your community has a social worker that is experienced in OCD that would be able to chat with you? I don't think there is an expense for that type of thing- I could be wrong depending on your country (Canadian here). Either way, please know I believe in you, and I really hope you don't make such a permanent decision without seeing a professional of some sort to help you work through your OCD around it. The fact that you're thinking of that procedure to prevent something very clearly tells me that you're brain is tricking you into believing something that is just not true.
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@LMB034 I really hope so. I don't weather your words gave me reassurence but it definitely have made me feel less monstrous. Thankyou for it. Also I'm from India where most people don't know what OCD Even is
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I dont actually have discord. I really want to help people who struggle with what Ive dealt with but Im gonna go through my therapy sessions soon and work on getting myself 100% first. I still have 2-3 times a year where I get brain locked. Im in one of those episodes right now. Let me work on myself and get better than I can help others. The best thing I ever did was face my fears and talk to a local therapist. Have you seen anyone?
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20 years how u do that
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It first started hitting me at puberty and Im now 40, so I guess 25 years. Ive had OCD since I was a little child. Ive experienced most of sub categories from sexusl orientation to having to turn lights on and off ect but POCD and what comes along with it has been the worst. Im so glad NOCD is here for people because I struggled for a long time to summon the courage to discuss it. You dont want anyone to think your a pedophile when that’s actually the opposite of what you are. How have I done it? To be honest I found a good therapist who I went to for a long time but he retired. It hits me hard 2-3x a year when Im very stressed. I’m hoping with this therapy program and working with people who understand it I can learn coping mechanisms
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How does it work you now, do you have bad anxiety
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Do I still get anxiety? Ya I do. When I get bad Im trying to work on ways to cope. I have a very stressful busy life so thats been causing mine to beat me up. The most important thing is getting the right medication and a good therapist
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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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I feel like a really terrible person right now, I keep replaying this, and no matter what I can’t remember what happened, it’s like my brain is purposely not letting me think about it. Without wasting any more time, I’ll get into it. Basically, I was at Walmart, and looking at cards with My Dad, I saw anime ones, took pictures of them for my sister, even ones that were anime kids, because I did my best to ignore it, so I looked at a Hunter x Hunter card, I stared at the black haired kid, being all like “ I’m glad I’m not having any thoughts about this, I’m glad I’m having normal thoughts and not thinking anything” I felt happy, then as soon as I looked at killua (white haired kid), everything collapsed. I don’t know what happened, my brain won’t let me remember. But I’ll give bits and pieces. I think that I had false attraction, and something in my head, said “oh, I wouldn’t mind being attracted.” “He is attractive, and I’m attracted to him.” “I remember a girl thinking he is attractive and he is” “ It’s not wrong to be attracted” “ I don’t care about his age” .. something along the lines of that, and now I’m panicking super hard, because I’m worried if I said those things, I feel like I ruined my life that I’m a pe//do and deserve nothing, idk what to do, I feel terrible… I remember when I was having the intrusive thoughts, I was panicking and was worrying, but it kept playing out, and I kept hearing things talk, it was drawn out too long, that now I feel convinced that I was saying those things, I tested it too, and I can confirm that I didn’t say that, but why am I still not convinced? I know I wouldn’t say those things, I was hoping the complete opposite would happen. My brain kept making me feel like it wasn’t wrong and it was okay. Maybe that’s why I’m so convinced I did that. I’m just spiraling super bad right now, I don’t know what to do or what to think, I don’t know if I said that or not… even if I did test it, I genuinely just feel like I said it, and I wanted it, because I still feel uncertain, I still feel like I said it, part of me just wants to be like oh I did and so I can move on, not because I agree with it, I just don’t know what else to do… I’m really scared.
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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!)
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