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Same here
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Same. I've said again on this app what my experience was. I grew up in a city where I was a popular boy. Everyone wanted to be my friend and I had plenty of crushes who liked me back. After one of my parents died we moved to another town where I was ignored, set aside, bullied and one rejection came after another. In the scope of my bullying, the entire school heard rumors that I was gay - which was of course false - and I even received a rape threat. All these events, along with other things that happened created a deep wound. And although I was able to repress the memories for a long time and pursue the life I wanted, that later caught up and is eating me up again. I really hate this, but there's not much I can do to change it. I wish there was a pill that I could take to forget all of it and simply reboot.
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- 6y
Do you think some of this is trauma deputy? A lot of good stuff is coming out about EMDR. Some of my issues I find that I can not obsess yet feel intense fight or flight arousal despite knowing deeply there is no problem. I’m happy to feel the anxiety but certain things are hard to do in that state. I’m thinking more EMDR will be useful as part of my brain is not getting past some trauma by itself. Frustrating I know, because it feels like part of our brain is so stuck when the rest of our brain knows it’s so unhelpful and stupid?
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I think most of it is trauma. I eventually moved away from that town where all this happened. A few years ago I was going to visit back and I broke down into a full blown panic attack and ended up not going. I've never heard of EMDR. I'll have to do some research on that today. Have you ever done it for yourself?
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Yes but I don’t think I did it enough and for enough things. I actually think I need a lot of therapy for a lot of stuff, and need to change a number of things that limit my life. It will be a long road. It took a while to develop the mindset that led to ocd i wasn’t born with it.
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That sucks. Do anything it takes to help yourself. Have you noticed EMDR helping you? The little I read about it sounded kind of scary.
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I think it needs to happen. I’d rather live the right life or not live. Existing is not living.
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- 23w
maybe a therapist can respond or anyone who relates and experiences this also?? im trying to make sense . ever since ocd started, specifically harm ocd and pocd, sexual themes ocd in general, my brain makes everything sexual or gross. or just makes inappropriate connections with quite literally anything. or any person I see I wonder if they are a p, or if they are “like me”, because im fully convinced at times that im some weird or bad person, and then when i see actual criminals etc i cant help but compare myself to them it’s so weird?????? or sometimes I feel like i cant judge a p because im no different than them?? idk its so weird. rn writing this ik im not a p like what im just struggling with really bad ocd and trauma I hope :( It’s just my brain distorts everything and then it makes me feel worse, like “ur an actual p or pervert because see??? ur brain is sexualizing everything?” hopefully this makes sense
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So basically I didn’t know till my hocd started. But looking back at my life I had ocd since I was a kid. Like 6-7 years old. First time happening I remember that when I was doing stuff many times I had to say something like a little poem in my head to stop it. Then I had this thing were if I felt my left foot touch the floor 5 times I had to do the touch the floor with my right foot too. Then I had something I guess contamination??? Basically after washing my hands I had a sensation on my hand like I could still “feel” the germs and I had to wash them again. Then I started having thoughts of my family members getting hurt. I had intrusive thoughts about me hurting my dog. Then I had this obsession that a guy who used to be in my school is looking for me to beat me up. And how it’s this obsession about my sexuality even tho I never doubted or questioned it before. Is that possible??? Like can you be born with it? I’m pretty sure both my parents have it too. At least at some level. Take my father for example he had an obsession that he was going to die the moment he turned 30.
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- 22w
for the past few years i have been struggling with a certain theme of ocd as well as most of the other themes. but this one i have not figured out a good way to do my own form of erp or non-engaging responses. basically i will be daydreaming or thinking and have a very random thought. i wouldn’t call these thoughts intrusive thoughts because it’s not necessarily fear of the thoughts coming true, its just fear that my thoughts are too unique. my ocd will latch on to random or weird thoughts and may also add in that i was doing something weird while doing the thought. let’s say for example i thought of something random while i was rubbing my feet. then my ocd would be like “why are u having such a unique thought while doing something weird? nobody has ever thought about that specific thought while rubbing their feet before” (just an example). but basically it’s like my ocd bullies me for having thoughts that are too random and things i’ve never heard people talk about before if that makes sense. i am just trying to see if anyone relates even a little and how i can accept that everyone has unique thoughts.
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