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You need to find a therapist that understands OCD and specializes on ERP. Normal talk therapy will just trigger you even more and make things even worse. Before realizing that I probably have OCD, I did years of therapy. I would share, do the homework, and never see any improvement. I tried several different counselors.
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so if i have a therapist that focuses on CBT would i see at least some improvement? my fear is explaining this thought and then thinking i genuinely want to do this when i rlly don’t
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@Xxara Get erp therapy through here. They have a lot of good therapist in this app
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i’m the same! i’m outside and i’ll try to be arguing with the thought or telling it to shut up and it just makes it worse and i know that i never want to do this to anyone so idk why i keep getting these thoughts
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@Xxara You are getting these thoughts due to a malfunction in your brain. It is not because you are sick, not because you are a bad person. It is no different than if you had diabetes or a thyroid problem or some other physical ailments. Mental illnesses, including OCD are medical illnesses
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That’s how I feel I get the same thoughts about rape. It’s literally my biggest fear rape and for some reason I think about doing it to others and it really freaks me out because I know I could never. It’s so hard. I feel like every other word in my head goes to rape and I don’t understand why. I feel like I want to think about that word but that word is so disgusting and I hate that it’s in my mind. I also hate that the thoughts that I get are command thoughts of rape and I get them around family or people in general and it’s really scary. It just makes me want to be home all the time. It’s like a constant in my mind
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i experience the exact same thing like exactly, then i start having a back and forth with my mind abt it where i say that i don’t but then my mind hits back that i do want to do it and it becomes a big rumination fest bc the thoughts get worse the more i argue
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@Xxara I don’t argue you anymore I just kinda let the thoughts be but sometimes it does get frustrating and scary and than I come in here to distract. Nothing helps distract me no more. I’ve never been like this before
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@Anonymous i’m the same but i have difficulty not arguing bc that’s my assurance yk? and nothing distracts me bc thoughts are like constant like i cannot escape them everything becomes tainted like it’s so horrifying
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@Xxara I’m going through the same thing and I’m hoping when I get diagnosed today I’ll get answers
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@Anonymous good luck! my psych appointment is in a few weeks but still good luck!
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@Anonymous Same.
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Stop arguing with your thoughts. You’ll just makes the OCD worse.
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ur right i’ve just been trying so hard and when i don’t argue i get more distraught bc my only assurance that i don’t like these thoughts is my arguing with it which only makes my ocd hit back with more vengeance
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I am not a professional but I do know from my ocd that arguing with it will strenghten the ocd. Do you have a therapist specializing in ERP?
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nope not yet i just got a therapist i’m a little unsure if she does ERP
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my anxiety keeps fluctuating i want to let this thought go but i keep ruminating
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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.
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Hey guys today I just wanted to come here and share an experience I have and I generally don't know what to do I feel like a terrible person for having these thoughts and for thinking them I genuinely don't know what to do I don't know the signs behind it and why I think the way I do but it's honestly driving me crazy I don't know what to do I have a pornography addiction for a long time it's where it's like anytime I'm an intimate moment or am masturbating my head just thinks these weird things always the same repetitive thoughts to of family members your younger sibling or a young child I myself am a 17 year old and I feel so disgusted I feel like I can't live my life anymore I feel like I'm a criminal cuz like it feels like I chose this these thoughts like I actively think them I don't know the signs behind it and I just really need professional help if there's any like therapist here that could fill me in that would be nice I would also like to know if you guys had any similar experiences because for me I feel like I have to rewatch pornography and do it right without the thoughts cuz I feel like the thoughts are just like to prevalent anytime I do anything related to masturbation why do I think this way I'm also just trying to be as honest as I can with this I'm not trying to make myself I guess a victim I'm trying to hold myself accountable if I actually am like this because I also have doubts in my head that tells me that I enjoy these things I feel like I'm going crazy someone help because it feels so real like I acted on them or that I was pleasuring myself to the thoughts and not towards the video it's just how can I live with myself you know also during it it felt like I was thinking the thought for a long period of time like it was dominating my head so I couldn't focus it felt l
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I feel nauseous. Extremely sick, i cannot eat, cant sleep well, and I haven't enjoyed things I normally enjoy to cry in bed and spiral for several days already. I feel extremely anxious over my past real events. I remembered something extremely triggering. I used to be morbidly curious about crimes and like I remember when i was a younger teen I watched a dark documentary that honestly i shouldnt have watched. There was this extremely weird scene and i think i felt weirded out but also a little aroused? but only bc I was thinking "lucky, shes already having sex. I wish I was her so i could experience it too." The poor person was like 1-3 years younger than me at the time. I KNOW how wrong that is now i legit feel like im going to throw up rn. Anyway I think I felt a little aroused??? And I think I touched myself a little bit and imagined myself in her place? I dont think I enjoyed it bc i remember it felt forced and weird and i stopped. I never did it again. I feel so sick! I would NEVER watch a documentary like that now as an adult and think or touch myself to it thats just so wrong but im scared that this is a sign im a sicko/p. I remmeber crying at the end of the documentary bc I felt disturbed by the contents but i still put some in my watch later out of morbid curiosity to see more real cases of these crimes bc they scared me. I never watched them again though. It only happened once and it was before my ocd started which SCARES me even more!!! And i wouldnt watch them as an adult either theyre too disturbing! I regret it so badly and feel like a monster bc it was messed up. Like what was wrong with me?! Theyre extremely disturbing to me and I rather avoid such content bc its triggering to my ocd but im afraid now like was that a sign of me possibly being a p? Am I a monster??? Am I in denial? Is this even ocd?! I feel so much shame and guilt it's killing me. 😔
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