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- 4y ago
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Classic POCD . It’s just another obsession so sit with the uncertainty since certainty is a feeling not a fact . You’ll never know for sure . I have this theme too you’re not alone in that . POCD seems like a common subtype . Iocdf has a good article on POCD
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- 4y ago
Thank you !
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- 4y ago
I am honestly so relieved seeing how many pocd posts there are I suffer from this too and its soooo scary and debilitating. I’ve already commented this elsewhere but a wonderful place to start is this book - ‘overcoming unwanted intrusive thoughts’ by sally winston and Martin n seif. As soon as I started reading I cried for 3 days. It explains everything about what intrusive thoughts are where they come from and why it bothers you so much. Essentially, the reason the thought sticks and shocks you is because it is the opposite of who you are, that’s why it’s so shocking and painful. Please understand you will get through this I felt so lost too and wanted to end things and this book is really helping. It emphasises a lot that there is nothing wrong with you, just with how you are dealing with your thoughts I really hope it helps.
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- 4y ago
Thank you ,so much for that
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- 4y ago
And too add that I’m now afraid to Leave my House sometimes ,but I still Force myself to leave put when im out in public I’m terrified
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- 4y ago
OCD likes to make me feel guilty for all the adult content I watched and masturbated too myself. It's annoying, but I feel like we've all been there or at least watched a lot of bizzare things on those sites. I think it's common at this point. I also think POCD is one of the more common themes and my OCD loves to latch onto anything sexual and twist it. It actually begins to twist memories of my sexual experimenting when I was much younger and pin it towards something else. The urges and rumination and distortions are all there for me too and it's honestly all bullshit. I don't know what to believe most of the time and I try not to dwell on anything. But know that you aren't alone. That's the last thing you'll want to believe. Don't take your life away. You're worth it.
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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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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.
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- 15w ago
Sometimes I think " do I like kids?" "Would i get aroused if I saw content with kids?""What if I'm a pedo and cant accept it?" "What if I'm ok with these thoughts?" "What if I'm not distressed enough " "What if I enjoy these thoughts?" , i avoid kids as much as i can, i cant look at them bc I'm scared I'm gonna have some groin like response. I keep testing if I'd get turned on or if I'd have some groinal response to sexual scenarios with kids. Sometimes I think that if I took my life this would be over and i wouldn't have to think about this and i wish i doubted something else instead of things like this. I had similar situations just with different topics such as if i loved or found sexually appealing a guy while in a relationship and i kept asking myself those questions for months and i avoided going to school for weeks and when I went I'd cry and have anxiety attacks. I had it with past actions i obessed over and felt the need to exploit every detail and be honest because otherwise i was being a fraud. I had it for sexual things that happened when i was a child. Im not diagnosed with ocd but should i tell this to my local counselor? Can someone help? Give me advice or tell me anything?
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