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Hi! I used to walk around with my arms and hands bound in my sleeves or purposely hold things in both hands to ensure there was no way my arms would “go rogue” and hit someone or to prove to myself I didn’t steal something unconsciously in the dollar store. It was terrible. One day I was in the elevator and I asked a family member if I bumped into someone in the lobby and she said something like, “oh yeah, you kicked that old lady right in the shins.” It was such a ridiculous and unexpected response that I just started laughing. I think that response and the laughter broke the ocd cycle of thinking and I was able to get out of the loop of worry and doubt. Maybe something like this could help you. To find some humor in it. I know how horrible and real and confusing it feels. I don’t want to lessen the severity of your experiences. I just wanted to share this because it helped me.
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Wow
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Humor helps OCD, thank you for sharing, I appreciate it <3
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im so sorry 😔. im gonna provide reassurance for a quick moment and say that psychopaths are not scared of being around people and use them as gadgets for their own amusement. you are clearly afraid of this being a possibility, and i cant diagnose but you seem to be going through OCD. what you’re doing right now is avoidance which is a form of compulsion. it’s going to be very hard, but you really should immerse yourself in social situations with people. the urges may be there, and the intrusive images may be there when you’re with people, but it’s best not to react to them or analyze them
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Thank you :( yea it is so hard, I just hope it’s OCD because this feels way too different ..
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i also have harm ocd. i still get intrusive images and urges from time to time (pretty rarely) especially around my mom or my cat. however, i have become so desensitized, they dont bother me anymore. hopefully you can use spending time with people as a form of erp, and with time your brain can become desensitized to these thoughts. the frequency and intensity of the thoughts will decrease too if you perform erp regularly
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I’m glad you got over this, thank you for your words :) I’ll try my best to beat this monster
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i’m trying to not let the thoughts bother me but it’s just so stressful. even me typing that feels like i’m lying when i know i’m not. i’m scared because even my therapist tells me that it’s just ocd, but in the back of my mind i slightly don’t believe her, and its making me scared that i AM like those people and im gonna act on something. sometimes in social moments i get a quick thought of me being an outcast because im like those people who are sick in the head and act on that stuff, and it just makes me feel like i truly am gonna eventually act on something. another thing that bothered me is earlier my mom yelled at me for not doing school work (it was well deserved im really slacking on it) and i had like no reaction to her screaming. it had me thinking what if i have no empathy etc etc, and what if i get mad that she yelled at me and i do something involving those thoughts. how do i TRULY know it’s ocd? like i try to remind myself and be like “dude, your therapist said it’s ocd, she isn’t wrong” but the back of my mind is like “she is wrong, it’s not ocd and she just happened to misdiagnose you. you are gonna act on those thoughts and it’s your fate”. please someone respond if you read all of this, im really struggling
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TW: SEWERSLIDE WARNING I’m scared to continue living because I don’t want the worst to happen. The worst being me discovering I’m a sociopath, pedophile, ephebophile etc… I have people I don’t want to disappoint. I keep looking for an excuse/something wrong with me so that I can decide whether I want to continue living or just end my life and save myself from the embarrassment of my loved ones finding out. At the same time I’m afraid to die. I feel like I’m not making a lot of progress in therapy. The only thing keeping me going right now is the thought that maybe one day I will find out that I’m not a creep, a sociopath &/or an ephebophile. At the same time living everyday is hard with all this looming over me. Some days I feel like I can continue no &’s ifs or buts. Other days I feel like im my own cheerleader & i am actually this bad person i think i am. I am so confused. Yesterday this thing came up where i suddenly find myself thinking a 17 yr old actor is attractive mind you im 21 yrs old.. idk if this is arousal nonconcordance or what it is honestly..I’m just afraid that it says something about who I am.. maybe that’s why I like guys my age with smaller bodies because it reminds me of a younger person??? Idk
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