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Hi keep reminding yourself these thoughts come from fear not desire ocd can be really cruel don't fight them they come back harder just acknowledge them as anxiety feuled thoughts and bring your attention back to reality or focus on your breathing anything that's happening in the moment hope you feel better soon š
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Thank you
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Try to see it as just thought, it's just throught and not your urge or something like that. It's just throught, troughts can come and go, and it doesn't means that we want them. I know it is very hard but try to look it that way, it's ocd which makes you trapped in them, not your wish or urge. Try to remind yourself that. I wish you will be back to your free and beautiful state of mind where you feel happy ā¤ļø
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Thank you.
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Your welcome stay strong
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Iām so sorry your dealing with this right now, sending you love ā¤ļø Iāve heard lots of people with pocd who were saād worry about the same thing. You may get thoughts like āWhat if I do what my assaulter did to meā or āwhat if it turned me into a predatorā ocd is going to latch onto a situation like this because it heavily relates to your theme. Try not to engage with these thoughts, and treat them like you have other intrusive thoughts. Iāve actually struggled with a similar thing before and talked to my ocd therapist about it and apparently thereās no proof that being saād as a kid turns you into a predator, in fact I believe it she said it was the opposite.
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- 20w
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- 13w
Please comment. Just say if follows along the OCD pattern or not. I don't need reassurance per se! My daughter was laying across me and every time I breathed a certain way I was getting a groinal sensation. I kept breathing like that anyways (ugh idk why), and then my mind told me I had hurt/a**aulted her that I might as well do something else to hurt because what's more. So idk why or what overcame me other than the thought of doing it because my mind told me I had hurt her already ("my mind literally made me question what to do and I guess the only thing I could come up with was using my elbow) and causing another feeling but it came across my mind to elbow her, and I elbowed her crotch or side/thigh area. Which caused another very unwanted groinal sensation. Then I began FREAKING smooth out. And I've been stressing since. I feel like as a mom I don't deserve to be hers anymore. Idk what overcame me but my therapist says it's all OCD. I was doing SO well! Is this really OCD? This has all caused me a great amount of anxiety. I feel like a terrible person and mom. I just need help knowing if this is OCD. Not wanting reassurance. Just wanting to know if this lines up with the POCD I've been diagnosed with by my current therapist.
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- 11w
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