Vent: Haven't done these in a while, so it's good to come back to it I suppose.. Sometimes I feel really alone with my OCD... My only real struggle is real event and already that makes me feel like I have it worse than others suffering. I'm not trying to make this a competition or anything, definitely not. Maybe these feelings of feeling worse than everyone else is also OCD. I don't worry about intrusive thoughts that haven't happened at all as much as the ones that have happened. Everything stems from even I was younger. Everybody tells me that sexting is normal and a variety of all kinds of people do it. Teens do it with other teens and adults do it with other adults. I did it a lot when I was a teen... Ever since the 7th grade, when I were an 11 year old, it's like I had some sort of sexual awakening. I became so obsessed with sex and feet. I even remember these where I acted out on it. I sexted so much online with other girls and they did it back. At the time I thought it felt so good and it gave me a rush doing it and I was experiencing what it would maybe be like to be with someone of the opposite gender sexually. I sometimes did it with people of the same gender due to false feelings and curiosities, but realized I only like girls in sexual ways. I guess the adrenaline rush I would get from doing this is why I kept doing it. But other times, I've had friends that appreciated feet of people as much as I did. I really do love feet in a general sense and an attraction sense. At the time when this all started, I used to have a lot of trouble accepting that, but I'm very comfortable about it now. There were times where I had friends online that felt the same way about this and we shared pictures of our feet for further admirations of our friendship. This was still a time where I wanted to figure out all of these feelings but I just feel like I've done all of this in the worst ways possible. I'm always ashamed of this and I can't help but feel like I should be in jail. That might be really irrational but it's what my OCD tells me.. I managed to stop doing all of this at 17 because I guess I realized this wasn't worth all of the pressure and anxiety. I'm very glad that I stopped and I haven't done it since. Another guilt I have has to do with my addicted to adult content. I've been so hooked on it at a very young age. So many things changed for me at that time. I've watched so much of it, got off on it so many times, came across so many bizzare ways just to get the same fulfillment. This has been engrained in my life and I'm doing the best I can to keep it away. So far I've been 17 days fresh. I'm happy that I'm abstaining from it all because it got to a point where I didn't feel enjoyment out of the content, I worried about being addicted on occasion, and then I cried when I tried to add a taboo towards my fetish. I really didn't like that and the fact that I was addicted. I'm just really glad I'm doing something about it, I guess. I'm just really glad that I can be here, speak my feelings about all of these things. Just let them all out maybe. OCD convinces me of so many things. Like if I saved illegal videos into my computer which I know I didn't. And anything I did have NSFW I deleted everywhere because I felt there was absolutely no point in saving things I would realistically have no use for. That I would harm someone for pleasure, when I would never ever ever want to hurt people. I would only want to help people and just try to make friends. It's even convinced me that arousal is 100% bad. I hate the feeling of it and I hate when it get it and what it does to me. I began to be afraid of looking for content for pleasure and when I did find something that really messed me up and made me very uncomfortable, I would just have a meltdown. I'd report whatever I see concerning, but now I don't search for anything anymore. Right now I don't do any of the things I used to in the past when I was younger and I'm glad I don't, but I still feel like a really awful person anyway. I always feel like I'm bad or that I broke the law or that I shouldn't get a second chance. I dunno. Believing what is and what isn't is almost impossible when it comes to OCD. I'm sorry if anyone was bothered by any of this. Didn't mean to make people feel that way if it occurred.