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You did not rape her! I get intrusive thoughts about my pets & I am super passionate about them all!! OCD just targets what you love most.
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I love her more than anything. This isn’t the first time this has happened and you’d think I’d know by now it wouldn’t help but I guess I was so desperate to be rid of the anxiety. I love her more than anything she is my best friend and I don’t know if I’d even still be here without her
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@Rhys34 I know exactly what you are going through , I’m having a lot intrusive thoughts about my pets too . They’re saddening & honestly really gross
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👆🏼💯
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You did not rape her! I've had intrusive thoughts that made me question shit and gave me extremely high anxiety, and I had to do strange stuff that made me feel like the anxiety would go away by doing it, but it didn't and just got worse! You did something because you love your dog very much, and you wanted to relieve the anxiety that the intrusive thought gave you. You DID NOT rape her. You weren't sexually attracted to your dog, and you didn't do to satisfy a sexual thought, so absolutely don't feel like you did! OCD fucking sucks and attacks everything that you love, and it tries to put intrusive thoughts in your head that makes you think by doing your OCD, that the anxiety goes away, but it doesn't, it just makes it worse. If you get a thought next time, try labeling it as an intrusive thought and attempt to move on from it and do something else! You could also try prolonging doing any rituals that come with intrusive thoughts to kind of gradually build up control over them. I wish you the best in your journey against OCD, and I hope that you'll be able to gain control over your intrusive thoughts!
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Rhys34.. I did the exact same thing. It’s actually a compulsion because the reason we do it was to rid the anxiety , urge, discomfort or to figure it out, etc. Let me tell you though.. it does not work! You might even get short term relief of the anxiety or urge but not long after comes the anxiety, guilt, ruminating, etc. Basically gives your OCD a new target. Resist the urge to perform compulsions of any form or you’ll remain stuck in your OCD. You did not harm your dog but doing this compulsions will harm you. Please do not listen to your OCD. You can do this.
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- 22w
I don’t know why but today I feel so incredibly angry right now and I was so frustrated with everything including my two dogs. I didn’t hurt them or hit them or anything but I was particularly annoyed and angry when they were trying to get presumably a bunny or a raccoon from underneath the shed, so I had to pull my small dog away when he wouldn’t budge away from the shed and i couldn’t pick him up because I was not close enough. I feel bad because I know I love my dogs but oh my god I just get so annoyed with them and on top of them everything else I have to just shut down all day and the things I don’t understand. I feel like I’m going insane. I don’t want my dogs to think I don’t love them because i was angry and annoyed at them. I know they’re just animals and they love me and I love them. I want them to know I’m sorry for even getting mad. I wish I didn’t feel so angry and yet so disconnected at the same time. I’m terrified I’m an evil person or that I don’t love my pets or something. I started to hit myself and punch myself because I do that when I get over the edge angry. I don’t know why I feel angry. It’s a mix of anger and emptiness and I don’t want either of them especially towards my dogs.
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- 17w
I'm worried that I sexual assulted or r*ped my dog when I was 17 and I'm 18 now. This memory, has came up multiple and changes rapidly, it says that I was also saying very disturbing things to the dog, calling her good and weird disgusting things like that. I don't know if I can live with myself if this is true.
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- 13w
My child was laying across me and every time I breathed a certain way I was getting a groinal sensation. I kept breathing like that anyways (ugh idk why), and then my mind told me I had hurt them that I might as well do something else because what's more. So idk why or what overcame me other than the thought of doing it and causing another feeling (I literally had to question what to do during this and the only thing I could come up with was to move my elbow towards her groin area) but it came across my mind to elbow my child, and I elbowed their crotch or side area. Which caused another unwanted groinal sensation. Then I began FREAKING smooth out and asked my child to move. Then I've been stressing since. I feel like as a mom I don't deserve to be theirs anymore. Idk what overcame me, and in the moment, it felt like I wanted to move my elbow, but I know that can also be my OCD speaking. Right? I clearly regret it all and hate myself. I would never intentionally hurt my child; I don't know what happened in my head when this happened. I was doing SO well! Is this my POCD that I've been diagnosed with by my OCD specialized therapist? Just a struggling mom who used to be the best of the best. I'm very depressed by this. Idk what to do with myself. I live in regret now, and I just wish it would've never ever happened. I can't stop ruminating and being depressed thinking I don't deserve anything.
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