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I can relate especially when I’m anxious and I’m trying to ignore it. The thought gets louder and I start to get irritable I guess and I feel like I’m going to act on it and it freaks me out so much. Sometimes I wish I could just stay home forever so I don’t do anything stupid
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Yeah same. I’m honestly so terrified I don’t know what to do
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@Just Breathe ❤️ Me neither I feel like getting locked away forever so i don’t do anything stupid
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Do ERP! Today I woke up feeling anxious regarding pocd & hocd. I usually start my mornings with outdoor meditation & prayer. Then I do ERP. It helps me when I go on instagram & look at my followers (maybe dads or moms) & see their content. It helps to see happy little children! & it makes you realize “wow, I am not attracted to these kids at all” it takes away power from thoughts, OCD is always gonna have a second opinion. But keep fighting! I wonder this too “whats wrong with me?” hun, we have obsessive compulsive disorder with an AWFUL theme attached to it. Please fight, this will all be over one day.
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But why does it feel so real like it’s an actual desire? I don’t ever want it to be. I’m extremely terrified and I honestly just want to end it all. It feels so real. I keep thinking what if I want it? I can’t do this anymore
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@Just Breathe ❤️ I’m your age, do you mean you actually have a desire against children or it just feels this way? OCD can trick you many ways. Its told me I want to be a p, its told me I want to look at children inappropriately. I just know is that pedophilia is a lie, at least in my case. I’ve never desired a child harm in any way, & I’ve thought the most evil I could ever think! All I can advise is ERP!! It really helps, get up & fight for your life & identity against OCD.
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@hunty It feels that way. I would never in my entire life ever harm a child. I don’t even know how to explain it. I’m really having a panic attack
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@hunty So what’s going on is I was having random sexual intrusive thoughts about a specific person and ever since my mind keeps telling me that it’s real and that I want it when I know I would never. I think that maybe it was because it was sexual in nature and not really had to do with the person itself but rather because it was a sexual intrusive thought. But then again I keep getting intrusive thoughts “oh well you like this” or “even if it was that person you would still like it” and that can’t be right! I just don’t understand. I’m done. I want to end my life I really do but I’m too scared to
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@Just Breathe ❤️ My thoughts tell me I am only sad about these thoughts because I cannot act on them, which is not why I am sad. I am sad that I have these thoughts & just know I don’t want to act them. We really are not our thoughts, in so many ways!!! Reassurance doesn’t always feel great, but its just the truth
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@hunty I just keep thinking what if I’m turning into a monster. I don’t ever want to be a monster 💔
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@Just Breathe ❤️ you either are a p or aren’t . unless you actually engage in pedophilic behavior , which is awful to even think about! Many people recover from pocd, & I just know that you & I can too! How long have you had pocd?
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@hunty About 2 years
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@Just Breathe ❤️ have you done erp ? honestly i am not naturally around kids so i really cant
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@hunty I’ve tried to do erp a little bit but honestly it’s so hard to do sometimes
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@Just Breathe ❤️ When I did erp with my niece & nephew it was so weird , like weird where i couldnt tell . But my husband was there! & I only felt comfortable being intimate with him, like laying on his grown body. If I was with a child alone, I don’t think I’d do anything. 😵💫simply because i didnt want to which is the beauty of it, but it doesnt make me feel good. like if i dont want to hurt kids, then why the fucking thoughts. so thats when you’ve got to try to defuse from thoughts
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@hunty Right I totally get this. It’s only been the last couple days that I’ve felt the way I have I know for a fact I would never harm anyone it’s just not who I am. I’m honestly so heartbroken this is happening to me. I hate the thoughts like despise them with a passion but my ocd keeps telling me otherwise. It feels so freaking real I don’t get it
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I have this strong yearning to tell my mother all my thoughts and what I go through on a daily basis but then I get scared of what she'll think of me or that she'll worry even more and feel like it's her fault. I just want someone to understand what im going through but whenever I even begin to explain my thoughts to my therapist, she doesn't really get it and today it feels like no one ever will. like I try to make my therapist understand and bless her heart, she's super compassionate and understands how much pain it causes me but beyond that, it still feels like im not able to fully convey it. I'm sure this is something many people can relate to, but still. I feel alone.
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I know I keep talking about This but I’m too tired :( I’m really struggling and I don’t know what to do anymore. I feel like I might be the only person who experiences this in the way I do. It’s gotten so bad that during intimacy or self-pleasure, I feel like I’m acting on a thought — like my body is moving because of it. It’s terrifying and deeply hurtful. The moment it happens, I immediately panic, try to rewind everything in my head, and ruminate to figure out what I was thinking at that exact second… but I can never remember. That makes it even worse. feel so lost and hopeless, like I’ll never be able to heal or move on from this. People tell me “it’s just OCD,” but it doesn’t feel like OCD to me. It feels like I’m the exception — like no one else truly experiences it like this, especially the part where it feels like I physically responded to a thought. I know people say “others go through this too,” but my mind keeps saying, “not like this, not this specific thing.”Sometimes I just wish I could go back and relive those moments so I could be sure what happened, but I know that’s not possible. I feel so stuck in guilt and doubt that I don’t even know who I am anymore. I’m scared I’m a bad person and that I’ll always feel this way. I’ll never be free or be the same again everyday I live with deep depression
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Sometimes I feel like nobody really gets me. Nobody knows what’s going on in my head. I try to explain in vivid detail, but my ocd immediately reads the other persons face and registers that they don’t get it. It’s a very isolating experience. Anyone else have something like this?
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