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I would be great rn if i never researched anything. everytime I do I fall farther down the rabbit hole hell I’m in wonderland at this point
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Yeah I’m trying hard to resist hopefully it helps. But sometimes being on tik tok and Instagram trigger my thoughts and I’m trying not to let it get to me but I still end up overthinking
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@Anonymous Ya sometimes I see SA cases and I freak out like “what if I do that” then I research have a breakdown after feel a bit better then repeat. It’s a horrible cycle.
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@Anonymous I’m here for u if u need anything
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@unknown Thank you💗
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Alice? That you?
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Also going on here and reading other people’s themes can cause you too obsess over there themes too
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Definitely applies to all OCD! Research: all the cool kids just say NO!
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Reaserching is bad for you?
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@lizzy k Yes and no, it’s really difficult to say. I had a therapist once give me a 3 minute rule. When researching something if it passes three minutes then you are doing too much and need to distract yourself because you can falling into a rabbit hole of obessings over the research and trying to find an answer.
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@nguitron Oh alright, I like to research all sorts of things for fun but I’ll keep it in mind
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@lizzy k Same here! But there’s a line I like to remember not to cross and that’s how much of this is taking up my time in getting work or other responsibilities done.
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@lizzy k Well, in truth it depends on your reasoning. MOST of the time with OCD it’s used as a compulsion, to “prove” to yourself that you are OK… which just fuels OCD, gives it more ammunition, and makes it worse long term. Kind of like scratching a mosquito bite, feels helpful but it is not. If you’re researching something not out of a desire to ease your anxiety, it’s fine. You just have to be very honest with yourself about your reasons.
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Yeah researching makes it worse
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Trying not to seek reassurance, but rather connect the dots on my OCD and possible reasons as to why I am the way I am. I have severe OCD (or at least I hope I do) mainly surrounding POCD. I've had symptoms of OCD the majority of my life but this theme has come up more recently. When I was a kid, and i'm talking 6-7, I was first exposed to some really gross adult content online. It was introduced to me by a friend of mine around the same age of me. I saw some really disgusting things that a 6-7 year old should definitely not see. This was not a one time occurrence, as I had been exposed to taboo topics online years to come after that, such as the same friend introducing me to Omegle... And i'm sure you can imagine how that went, theres a lot of genuinely disgusting human beings on there. Coming back to the reason for making this post; is it possible to early exposure to this content could be one of the reasons I struggle with POCD? It genuinely scares me to death because you hear that real p*dos dealt with simular situations when they were kids, so thats kind of making me feel that this could be more than OCD, and I could be a genuinely bad person. My POCD feels so real, that at times i'm fully convinced its not OCD. Sometimes I can't even distinguish the feelings of attraction between a younger person and an older person, except for the feeling of anxiety and fear. Its really hard to explain without going into detail, but it just feels so real. Some feedback on this would be great, thank you all.
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