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- Wildcat14
- Date posted
- 5y ago
- Username
- jespencercrowjespencercrow
- Date posted
- 5y ago
There's the patient confidentiality law. Your protected, and legally your therapist is not allowed to disclose information unless you give SPECIFIC permission too. You can't help these intrusive thoughts! There's absolutely nothing wrong with seeing help. Because your getting help, it shows you don't want these intrusive thoughts. Stay strong! Tell your therapist about this because chances are he has other patients with POCD! Don't doubt yourself. ??
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- marilynbordmarilynbord
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Make sure to find a therapist that specializes in OCD. My first 2 therapists were obviously not at all educated on OCD and they made me so much worse with bad advice. They can't report you though, unless you give them permission to, so you need not worry about that:) especially if you get a therapist who specializes in OCD, they are going to know exactly what you are going through.
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- figuringitalloutfiguringital...
- Date posted
- 5y ago
I told my therapist and I was horrified. I remember sitting in the waiting room thinking it was going to be the end of my life. Her reaction was so calm and casual, she kind of laughed at how stressed I was to open up about something that is so common.
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- LewisLewis
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Not necessarily, but they wouldn’t look into it. They knew I was mentally ill. I’m still getting over these false memories. But it’s a lot better than it was atm!
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- marilynbordmarilynbord
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Lewis I almost did the same thing , Haha. My husband took me to the hospital instead. My pocd is directed at my son and it's really been tough lately. I don't even struggle with the intrusive thoughts anymore. Just the past compulsions where I'd think up the thoughts on purpose to gage my response. It's all so messy.
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- Wildcat14Wildcat14
- Date posted
- 5y ago
@marilynbord God I’m so glad to hear another parent! Mine is not “directed” at my son per se but having a son makes the terror of all this 10 times worse.
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- marilynbordmarilynbord
- Date posted
- 5y ago
I had groinal responses a lot but with enough erp I got over that part, thankfully, it was hell
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- marilynbordmarilynbord
- Date posted
- 5y ago
You can trust your therapist then for sure. ? good luck!!
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- LewisLewis
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Yeah mine does (only been once). As soon as I started talking she said “That is POCD” so she clearly knew what she was on about. :/ I’m sorry to hear that!! I spent 2 months ruminating, asking for reassurance, speaking to police. I’ve been ‘stable’ for 2 days basically using a new method. Need to stay focused otherwise OCD sneaks in and takes any chance it gets! Even when you don’t realise :/
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- LewisLewis
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Trust me, I’ve phoned the police and told them about this because I was so distraught. I thought I could have downloaded something or could have messaged someone under age (no memory of it) They said to go to the hospital...haha
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- iajswhiajswh
- Date posted
- 5y ago
@lewis so the police understand what pocd means? Or did they try to make u sound crazy/like a pedo person for saying that to them?
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- figuringitalloutfiguringital...
- Date posted
- 5y ago
I’m so scared of being a parent one day with having this. How do you guys do it?! I marvel at you so much, you are defying my biggest fear. I’m most nervous about having groinal responses while with them, I couldn’t imagine dealing with that fear. Oddly enough, my POCD really only exists when I think of myself as a dad. I never really have scenarios where I’m just a regular ol’ predator trolling the streets, lol.
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- Wildcat14Wildcat14
- Date posted
- 5y ago
@marilynbord so you were able to talk to your therapist without fear of him or her making a report since you’re a parent? That’s my fear. I want to get help but I don’t want to blow my life up.
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- Wildcat14Wildcat14
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Thanks, my therapist does specialize in OCD and has been helping me tremendously with my other obsessions/compulsions, so I should trust him. I know what you mean about bad advice - it took me two therapists to find this one as well.
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- pluto
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Talking to a therapist about pocd. So I'm not actually diagnosed with OCD officially but we've talked about it I'm not sure I have typical compulsions though which is why maybe they didn't give me the diagnosis? But I have the obsessions. I've talked about harm fears but although I've said I'm afraid of doing something to children I've not been able to come out and say my fear about pocd. Any advice?
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- jelly
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Hey so I’m an 18 year old college student I’ve had ocd for a long time but I never wanted to admit this aspect of it as part of it and I still don’t. That’s why I won’t say it cause I’ll just end up crying again. I don’t even want to post about it cause this would just make the problem real. I know I’m not sexually attracted to them but my mind wants to trick me and I end up getting confused on which is rlly me, like the other aspects of my ocd. It spiked ig when someone sent me a meme and it was fine but at the end of it it showed a child being shown in a sexual way which was suppose to I guess be funny but it wasn’t rlly funny to me at all and got uncomfortable and the pocd thoughts came in hard and I had such a bad panic attack and then I felt the need to go back and check to see what I was feeling and went to the video the next day after avoiding it to see which after reading the threads here is I guess a big no no? I know I’m not sexually attracted but my mind is playing these games and confuses me and I’m so scared to even talk to my therapist about it or ask people for help cause what if they think I’m a pedophile? Children genuinely make me happy and I have a motherly instinct to care for them but my mind turns it into something darker and I know I don’t think of these kids sexually but it’s like I have the power to?And that freaks me out so much and it won’t leave me alone I don’t know what to do I know I’m not one but my mind is tricking me and it’s freaking me out and if my mind says it could be what if other people think I am no one I trust will even understand idk what to do I just needed to put this somewhere to vent
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- Celi
- Date posted
- 2y ago
Advice For Someone Undiagnosed
i'm sorry in advance for how long this post is and if it's to much information. i'm undiagnosed but have been struggling with compulsions and intrusive thoughts since i was 7 or 8. My worst intrusive thoughts theme has been about p*d*phil*s. I've been dealing with it since my freshman and sophomore year but these thoughts didn't become debilitating until June of last year. I had a panic attack and confessed to my parents about these intrusive thoughts. They were obviously shocked and share. I felt so ashamed and like a monster. After talking with my dad he said we would see a therapist about it. Sadly we never did the first appointment we were late and missed are spot and the second appointment i sprained my ankle the night before so instead i was in the hospital. After that i closed myself off i tried dealing with them on my own using sources like NOCD and stuff. I did try to bring up going to therapy to my parents. Every time they would ask me if the intrusive thoughts were back and I would lie saying "no i just would like to go to therapy" I was so scared they'd be afraid of me and stop loving me, especially my mom. Eventually after awhile my parents forgot about it and I tried ignoring these intrusive thoughts because I was so focused and stressed from school. I decided I could just wait till I turn 18 and schedule myself into therapy. recently though my intrusive thoughts have gotten worse. I recently had a convo with one of my friends who has intrusive thoughts as well and she's encouraging me to talk to my parents. I'm asking y'all what should I do. As much as I'm scared I want to get help because I'm sick of living and feeling like i'm day away from acting on my intrusive thoughts.
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