I’m taking care of a friend’s dog for a week and I’ve been having intrusive thoughts of hurting him somehow. I’m worried I’ll put him in the microwave or break his neck with my bare-hands or something. I know I wouldn’t ever do either of those things but I’m kind of worried. Anybody have any tips?

Anonymous

Date posted: 4y

Hi! Whenever a thought like that goes in your head! Just accept that you had the thought, everyone has them, and don't give it any more power! I know its easier said then done, but if you said you never would, you wont!

bbgurl

Date posted: 4y

something that helped me was realizing this: if i’m so worried about a harm thought, that truly means i don’t want to do it, so then i’d think “it’s not me, it’s my ocd.” just thought i’d share, hope this helps & feel better :)

123kate123

Date posted: 25w

help

i’m struggling. so i’m a nanny and i had an intrusive thought to like do something bad to him so i was very upset crying saying i don’t want to do it but as i was changing him i got closer to it to see if i would actually do it and i got grossed out. now im feel extremely guilty i even got closer.

POCD

Imnew@this

Date posted: 23w

I’m a monster. I know it.

(21+ ONLY: TRIGGER WARNING) I’ve been increasingly worried that I’m a zoophile (among other things) and that I’m attracted to my family dog. I love him and I take care of him—I take him out to poop and pee, I play with him, and I feed and water him. But I get nervous when I have to be around him for a long time—I get these thoughts and they just won’t stop. I’ll find myself looking at my dog’s privates and having these strange urges. I feel horrible—like I could’ve done something to him or touched him inappropriately and conveniently don’t remember. I don’t know what to do…

Just trying ...

Date posted: 21w

I’m wondering if anyone has any insight or tips

So recently I have been talking to this guy and I really like him and for the past week I felt really good and happy about it, but then a sneaky intrusive thought popped up about what if in the future when and if the time comes to sleep in the same bed, I inappropriately touch him while he’s sleeping. Now I’ve struggled with sexual intrusive thoughts like that before so my brain just kept reminding me of how that thought felt the last time it came up, and the thoughts of sexually harming this person started snowballing and making me feel worse and worse. I spent most of the day crying and panicking wishing my brain could just shut down, and now all I want to do is hide from this person so I don’t get the chance to hurt him, which makes me feel even worse because I had been feeling so good about him just the other day. I was just wondering if anyone else had experienced this and if they might have any insight

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