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I am totally with you on this. I had and I guess still do have an unhealthy relationship with pornography. I went down some dark rabbit holes and one day woke up and was like wtf am I doing!? Since then it has latched into everything and the guilt and shame are so real. The best we can do is have self compassion and remember we are human. We make mistakes and it’s what we do now and in the future that make us better.
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Real memory ocd. You have to put in mind that whatever you did in the past is over and it doesn't define you in the present moment. You feeling all that guilt about it 100% means you're a good person. We are humans we make mistakes and that's fine. What matters is this current moment and nothing else.
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thanks i’ll keep that in mind. i’ve been hurting for months since i’ve always been against that stuff considering what has happened to me as a child. do you have advice on what to do if my thoughts try to get to me in terms of the memories?
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@Rey ⚜️ Maybe do something good whenever you remember a memory, this can remove your guilt and always remember that you're in the present moment. Your old actions are over and they don't matter. What matters right now is your values at the moment.
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@not_me wow thanks 😁 you’ve really opened my eyes i really appreciate the advice (sorry if i sound sarcastic)
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@Rey ⚜️ As I said your guilt shows how good you are, glad I helped such a wonderful person🤍
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I had a very similar real event/pocd combo because of the disturbing taboo porn I saw when I was about 15. I do erp therapy through here and told my therapist about it, it helped a ton. My ocd uses it as evidence or proof a lot and it really drives me insane and makes me sick bc I’m in no way attracted to kids and I can’t even figure out why I watched it because it’s disgusting looking back.
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i currently am getting over my period and have been having a horrible flashbacks from some real events. it’s a amalgamation of all of the horrible things i did as a child/young teenager. all of it associated with p0rnography + sexual activities i did. i was exposed to sexual activity very young and it lead me down a dark path. i’ve had OCD forever it seems. it’s hard because i can see that i’ve had OCD symptoms since childhood but i constantly doubt wether or not my actions where because of OCD or something i genuinely wanted/was attracted to. i can’t seem to differentiate the two and it’s scaring me. i’m worried i was genuinely into the kind of stuff and it’s constantly flashing in my mind the last two days of things i compulsively did years ago. to be absolutely clear it has been years since i’ve even thought about those taboo things or saw anything of that sort. i’m talking 5 or 6 years give or take. it still feels like yesterday. in recent years i’ve completely pulled away from p0rn and now find it and s3x a lot less appealing. but every so often i get these intense flashbacks on things i did or saw or thought and it puts everything on hold. everything im interested in gets but on the back burner in fear of my intrusive thoughts being thrown into the mix. currently experiencing that now. im mortified of ruining everything i love because of these stupid thoughts. does anyone have any advice or experience with this specifically and have any tips???
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i feel like i have been posting a lot about this and i will try to stop since now but i just don't know where to start or what to do, and i can't take therapy right now either. my event is about something that did actually happen; i had a boyfriend and we had a 1.5 age difference (i know this sounds stupid) but the thing is that we both started to sext a lot since he was 14 and i was 15. we shared audios videos pictures ect and i don't know how to just let this go, even when i know that i never really forced him into anything and i was always constantly worried about him being comfortable, when to stop and ect. the memories keep coming back to my mind and the guilt is eating me up slowly because i keep thinking that i'm a predator or a groomer or something like that. i don't know how to deal with the what ifs either, lately i haven't stopped thinking what if i sexually harassed or sexually exploited him or something like that. how do i deal with the cycle of guilt and constant what ifs if i also feel like my event is worse than others i've seen? please help me with this. it's getting a lil tiring and even if somedays i know how to deal with this, i still get really triggered sometimes. this wouldn't even bother me before, i wish i could just get back in time before this theme popped into my mind. my life has been a hell since then and i live constantly scared and suicidal.
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Hey guys I just wanted to talk about something I was feeling I feel so trapped and terrible I have a bad pornography addiction even back then idk what to do I'm 17 years old but basically I looked at some very obscure things on the Internet ranging from hentai or just even more messed up things when I was younger I think maybe early teens I remember randomly just started remembering things I saw now I do not remember if I acted on them or jerked off to them idk what to do I feel so ashamed trapped I feel like I can't enjoy life anymore for what I've done I been introduced to porn when I was young idk what to do I seem alot back then some memories pop certain ones I don't remember if I had pleasured myself to it it feels like I did I have so much shame if I did but idk what to do
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