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It's really one of the most shame triggering actions to violate one's own values and moral sense. For now you just have to go through that painful emotion and explain yourself, why you did what you did. Next time you are in a similar situation or could conduct the same mistake, you know even better not to take that path. Also your individual values got validated - you wouldn't feel so ashamed, if they were not important to you.
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You are correct I experience this shame and guilt as a result of my mistakes I just wanted the intrusive thoughts to stop or go away. I feel horrible about myself and my life I used to feel much better about myself than I do now, I think the biggest issue I now face is harsh judgment from others for my mistakes and my past especially women how they would view me I am trying to constantly figure out why I did what I did, I am a complete mess I feel helpless and hopeless on the inside and just pure gross.
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I knew who I was before all of this shit started I can never get that person I once was back
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@Sad mom š¢ I thought so, I thought that I would or I didnāt know, I know before this happened to me I was happy and alive on the inside I felt amazing about myself growing up I was confident never confused I feel into a severe depression, I know who I am but now I fear women judging me for It, my past really drags me down I feel horrible about myself
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@Sad mom š¢ Right now I feel like my OCD and my life are completely out of my control I feel Horrible
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Huge tw Iām so scared Iām a r*pist people have told me I am. I wanted to lose my virginity when I was 19 I felt embarrassed and ashamed I hadnāt. I decided to get drunk and find someone in a club to lose it to. I donāt remember much other than I was happy it was finally happening and remember thinking my plan had worked. I was told by friends that the other person was drunk and possibly on drugs. I must be a r*pist as I knew what I was doing and instigated it, I took advantage and used someone. I feel sick and donāt deserve to move on I canāt even apologies as it was a complete stranger what if theyāre living with trauma because of me.
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I had a compulsion to look up āchild nudityā on google to see peopleās opinions on whether nudity in children is sexualized or not. This came from a whole other obsession that Iām not going to get into right now. I had another compulsion to click on images and I told myself I didnāt want to I had a compulsion to look up āchild nudityā on google to see peopleās opinions on whether nudity in children is sexualized or not. This came from a whole other obsession that Iām not going to get into right now. I had another compulsion to click on images and I told myself I didnāt want to do that but still did it anyway. I saw one boy naked from the front. I immediately closed the tab but then got another compulsion to look again to confirm what I saw. I searched again and looked on images this time seeing a toddler girl nude from the back. I closed the tab and got a compulsion to look at the first image again to confirm the approximate age of the boy in the first picture and this time saw a girl toddler nude from the front. Doing all of this I yelled at myself to stop and when I saw the last picture of the girl I started crying. Iām still in tears and Iām so scared. I have another urge to look at the source of that photo with the boy again to confirm he wasnāt getting sexually exploited in that image. It was from 1920 and he had a straight face so Iām worried I actually saw something really bad. These images werenāt sexualized I think but are they still considered CP? Did I just see illegal material? Either way I just looked at photos of nude children 3 separate times and now I hate myself more than I ever had before. I feel like I shouldnāt be alive right now. Iām a disgusting human being l donāt deserve to live what is wrong with me. I donāt care if this is ocd I gave into a really inappropriate compulsion and didnāt stop myself. Iām not afraid Iām going to harm children I know for a fact I would never do that but this is a step too far. How do I continue living with myself. I messaged my therapist for the first time and she said we can have a session tomorrow but Iām an absolute mess right now. Iām crying so hard I gave myself a headache and itās getting hard to breathe correctly.
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As a teenager and in other ways up until age 21, I was just an absolutely horrible person. It wasn't just a one time event that I regret, it was a lifestyle. I was a hedonist and a narcissist to an unbelievable degree and didn't even realize it. I read people's stories on here related to their real events and I just feel that I've done so much worse so it fuels this feeling that I'm unredeemable. And again it's not like I just made "one mistake." I was living under such a cloud of self-delusion and non-confrontation that I couldn't even embrace that what I was doing was wrong. Something pulled me out of that one night and I was forced to confront my actions (I believe it was God) but I've been living in this hell that is obsession ever since. I'm so guilty and ashamed and I'm desperate to find redemption. I can't forgive myself and I can't understand why I was the way I was or how on earth I even covered up what I was doing from others and even from myself mentally. I would just put a veil in my mind and not even think it was an issue. It's more likely than not that I am what I fear I am, so I guess trying to unconditionally accept the possibility of being what I fear is the only real way through this. Realistically I deserve all the suffering I'm receiving but I realize I can't have that mindset if I'm to have any hope of recovery. This is unbelievably isolating and I can't talk to anyone because of the risks involved. All I can do is try to limit compulsions, try to (somehow) accept the possibility of the worst case scenario and do my best to serve others.
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