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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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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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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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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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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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@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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I had groinal responses a lot but with enough erp I got over that part, thankfully, it was hell
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You can trust your therapist then for sure. ? good luck!!
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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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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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@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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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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@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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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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- 22w ago
I am wanting to go to therapy to hopefully lower my OCD symptoms but I am terrified to tell anyone else, like a therapist, about my intrusive thoughts. Has anyone else had this experience and if so how did you get over it?
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This might contain triggering content, but I'm also wondering if others have dealt with this similar thought, and if so, how to deal with it? Overall, I've been doing so well these past few days. I'm able to eat again, which I hadn't been able to do because of how much anxiety I'd been experiencing. I'm spending time around loved ones and not just rotting in my room, and I've been able to wake up without immediately being bombarded by intrusive thoughts. When things first got really bad, I'd wake my mom up every night for reassurance, but I haven't done that in a while either. I'm really proud of myself, but there's still this nagging thought in my mind... While looking through others posts on here, hoping to find advice that'd fit my situation, I ended up making things worse. Someone mentioned how they had a fear that they'd purposely search for illegal content (related to POCD). I panicked, and "what ifs" flooded my thoughts. "What if the intrusive thoughts affect who I am as a person, and I do that?" I'm terrified that I'll search for those things, which I know means I wouldn't do it. But then, another person on here said they'd actually looked for those things, and that freaked me out even more. Does that mean it's possible for that to happen to me? I don't want to do that, but I keep having intrusive thoughts surrounding it. I've been doing so well these past few days. I'm just... stuck. I don't know what to do. I've spoken with other people who have the same fears, but how do I manage this? It's not something I've even thought about before seeing those posts. I've been practicing accepting the uncertainty, but I'm really struggling with this one. I hate this. This morning, I woke up, and the intrusive thoughts were back. It's just disheartening.
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I’m sharing this bc I need advice or even support from anyone who can relate. If you can’t relate and don’t think you’ll say anything helpful or kind pls don’t comment anything… I’ve been struggling with somethings that’s making me question myself. There has been moments while self pleasuring when I get intrusive thoughts, in those moments it feels like I’m enjoying or even self pleasuring myself bc of the thought. Right after I immediately have an anxiety attack and my HEART drops bc it feels terrible I feel like a disgusting monster :( ppl have told me I haven’t done a bad bc of how intense my guilt and panic are but I keep thinking that MAYBE I made a horrible decision in the moment and the guilt is just realising that it’s just wrong this doesn’t make sense to me because I’ve always told myself that I would never act on this in 1 million years and I’ve been known that these things are wrong so I’m just like constantly questioning myself these feelings and exact same situation has happened two times already I even promised myself that I wouldn’t act on anything beforehand and yeah, I still felt like I did act on my thought during my alone time I’m genuinely convinced that I’m a horrible and it’s even got into the point where I don’t wanna be here anymore and I don’t even think this is my OCD :( tbh
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