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I do personally. Like i'll see a person of a different race and my brain will introduce such horrible things and ill be sitting there like what the hell why
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I'm sorry you're struggling as well. Have you found anything that's helped?
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@canigetawitness So sometimes my intrusive thoughts are about people of color and itll jump to "theyre gonna shoot you" which as you can imagine is a horrible thought to have and very distressing cus its the opposite of how i feel. But to keep myself uncertain and not entertain the OCD, you have to just say "maybe, maybe not" and then not give into a compulsion. Avoiding is a compulsion so if ur automatic compulsion is to walk away with your head down, keep your head up and walk toward that person
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I do have racist instructive thoughts as well.
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yes! im a poc myself and i’ve dealt with this! i’ll tell you something that rlly helped me. firstly, being anti racist is not an end all be all. everyone has racist perceptions and tendencies wrapped within them due to the society we grow up in, our job is to let minorities have a platform to speak on what they need to help push them forward (speaking from a minority myself), being able to grapple the fact that it will always be a process and not an end all be all statement rlly helped me deal with the fact that even if i’m a person of colour, i will deal with racism within myself. as long as you recognize it, realize it’s wrong and work to change then ur fine. now ur OCD has a way of warping that into both a life sentence and implanting thoughts in you that you don’t even believe! what i find has helped not just with race ocd but other things is that i laugh at the thought. i don’t entertain the thought but it helps ease the anxiety of it all, or i simply shrug my shoulders at it bc you know it’s your ocd. fighting racist tendencies we have and our intrusive thoughts are always separate and don’t need to be intertwined, ur clearly trying your best to be an ally and i appreciate that a lot!
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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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I struggle so bad with intrusive thoughts. They can be so bad that I'll cry because I KNOW that's not how I feel or want to do. (Too embarrassed to say what they're about) I'll constantly try to figure out why I have them, and constantly figure out what they mean, causing me to constantly circle around and around. I had to get on anxeity meds, which helped a little but the thoughts still happen. How do you help yourself with this? How do you know that you're just not some physcopath? 😅
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I’ve been feeling the urge to avoid intimacy or purposefully engage (for reassurance that I won’t give into a compulsion) because of intrusive thoughts and fear that I’ll “check/test” my reactions. My OCD is making me so scared that I’ll purposefully think of a child and try to see if I like it. It’s so complicated but I guess I’m mentally checking if I would mentally check during intimacy. I’ve even envisioned myself checking and it’s making me so nauseous. I know it’s a compulsion like any other but the sound of “touching yourself to the thought of a child” sounds atrocious and vile. I’m terrified I’ll automatically start checking next time I am being intimate. I truly feel so worried. If anyone has gone through something similar, I’d appreciate hearing your experience. Or if anyone has any advice?
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