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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 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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17f That's it I'm a monster. Before yesterday I had classic textbook POCD. Avoided children like crazy, was scared to even look at them. But something randomly clicked in my head and I became a monster. I suddenly became numb to s*xual thoughts about children. No anxiety, no remorse, no "this is wrong" or "this is weird" feeling. Nothing. Just weird curiosity. I was able to imagine SAing a child. Even made a hypothetical plan on how I would do it. And still. No remorse. No nothing. Now it's the next day and I'm freaking out. I still feel kinda numb to the images and the morality itself but at the same time it scared me how OKAY I was with the thoughts even made a PLAN.
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I remember another thing from the past where it was a sexual thought and I don’t remember if I was talking to or dating my gf at the time but it was like “if I was talking to someone else like _____ I’d be able to have sex already” and I feel terrible bc I don’t want sex. I would rather be with my girlfriend than any other girl. Idk if the thought was intrusive or not. I think the people or person I was thinking of may have been intrusive. I’m just terrified bc I really love my gf and don’t care about sex
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