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- 4y ago
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- 4y ago
It definitely can! Pay attention to how the intrusive urge makes you feel. The feeling you get about it tells you all you need to know. ❤️ the distress and possible guilt and disgust shows your true self and intentions, OCD is showing you your worst fears
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- 4y ago
So if I feel guilty or disgusted over some thoughts or like "what ifs", that's who I really am?
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- 4y ago
That’s very nice of you but another question what if you don’t feel disgust sometimes?? Does that possibly mean .... :(
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- 4y ago
@sonia.i Even if you don't feel disgust, OCD gives us emotional reactions and sometimes it doesn't. You know yourself better than anyone! Listen to yourself not your OCD.
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- 4y ago
@rosecoloredgirl You know yourself better than anyone. Whether you feel disgust or not, intrusive thoughts are making you overanalyze yourself.
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Yes unfortunately the urges happen. Especially when your thoughts are taboo/violent/disgusting/shameful (mine are, so are lots of other people’s with OCD) You can frequently get the urge to do something bad and then think to yourself “what if I act on this thought?” “What if I get a strong urge and it overcomes me and I do it?” Just remember these are just thoughts. If you start therapy, your therapist will show you ways to let them be there and coexist with you, no matter how horrible they are. And remember that you’re still in the driver’s seat of your own body. If you don’t “want” to carry out one of your thoughts, simply don’t do it. You are in full control. I know it’s easier said than done, because I struggle with this as well. I hope you find something that helps you!
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- 4y ago
And as Booba said above, the guilt and sisgust reveals your true intentions! OCD makes you shameful of things that have never happened and you don’t want to happen. It makes you question your feelings on things that you already know your feelings for. When OCD attacks a particular subject, person, or thought, it’s latching onto it because it knows how morally wrong that thought is for you. It’s literally just trying to psych you out.
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- 4y ago
I think so. It scares me too. *hugs*
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- 15w ago
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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- 10w ago
(20f) I have been dealing with severe OCD symptoms for as long as I can remember. I recently got diagnosed about a year ago, and even though I know that these thoughts are probably my ocd, I still cant shake them. Growing up I was always very sexually curious. I was sheltered from a lot of things, as I went to a private school and things like sexuality and sex were never talked about. I remember doing some weird sexual things growing up (never affecting another person), looking up taboo sexual things, etc. I always seemed to become aroused no matter what the situation was, even if I just saw someone getting changed. I have no recollection of being SA'd, so i'm wondering where this all came from? Was I just curious and wanted to experiment and try different things? Or am I really a pervert, pedophile, etc. I have all these thoughts racing through my head and it's killing me. Everything I did as a kid I look back on and am disgusted, as those don't align with my views at all today. I never thought growing up thinking these things were wrong, or actually realize what they were until I got older. I'd like to think it was just my curiosity, but i'm not sure. What if i'm in denial and actually do like these things? I just need to know if theres something wrong w me, I cant keep going on like this. Could really use some advice.
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- 7w ago
I am struggling right now with intrusive harm urges. They feel real and it feels like I am going to act any second. It feels like I have to hold myself back, which is a scary thoughts. I am trying so hard not to compulse, but does anyone have tips on what they do in these situations?
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