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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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I was scrolling on here and now I’m having a panic attack. Someone posted resources and one of them was a NOCD article and I thought that was so great. I clicked on it because I like learning about this disorder and I love NOCD’s resources. But I read that one of the compulsions for pocd is watching cp? I thought that wasn’t a thing with POCD. I literally cannot breathe because I feel like this thing is now possible and I cant calm down. That was the first time I’ve ever seen that stated as a compulsion. I feel like I’m dying. What triggered my spiral in the first place was months ago someone contacted me and told me they watched it but claimed OCD and I felt absolutely horrified. I deleted my account and removed that person entirely. I am freaking out so bad I really can’t seem to breathe right now
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Please read this. I’ve had ocd pretty much a lot of my life but never knew what it was until my senior year of highschool. I’m 21 with 2 kids and i believe i’ve had pocd a little bit before my daughter was born (which was 8 months ago). It made me start looking at all kids differently and i hate it. But it really started triggering me about 3 months ago. I’ve been thinking if i’d intentionally touched or harmed my kids the wrong way, or any kids for that matter. This started giving me false memories (or at least hope they are). I’ve been having panic attacks, yelling at myself, punching walls, praying, and even thoughts of ending my own life. I grew up in a severe toxic household throughout my childhood and teenage life. I’ve never wished that on my kids since i became a dad. I wanna give them the life i never got. I look back my photos of my children and i feel like i’m a complete fraud of a dad. I cannot look at my kids or be around them a lot of times. I can’t hold my daughter right. I can’t change their diaper when they need it. Even my son came and was hugging on me the other night while i was watching tv and i acted like a stranger to him. I can very little do this stuff sometimes because it’s either i get relief or i push my thoughts as far back as i can. I get scared if i did something to not just my kids, but any other kids in the past. I have such a a great life and such a beautiful family. It was hard and stressful at first being young with a family but i couldn’t be more thankful at all for them. I’m just so lost and stressed right now that i just don’t know what to do anymore
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