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I just started mine for POCD. I started with pictures. Specifically of my siblings to start off. Another ERP excerise would be watching movies or TV shows involving children. Another ERP exposure for me is going to the park and watching the kids play. Since I have concerns about being a Pedo one of my higher level exposure is going to be watching a documentary on actual pedophiles. It just goes off by your lowest level anxiety to your highest. You get to pick and chose what kind of exposure you want to and your therapist may recommend some. The point is to just let the thoughts sit during an exposure. You also can’t do a compulsion after because it defeats the purpose of the exposure
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(found u hi lol) i think i am the person this post is referring to and yeah boy howdy it is not fun.
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When I first started having the thoughts I had to know if I was or wasn’t. Starting erp gave me clarity but it is on the back of my mind. You just have to learn to live with the uncertainty. I know it’s hard because you just want an answer. It’s hard for me I still struggle
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Hiiiiiii <3
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Man I am not good at using this app. But yes hi it is me and yes you are the person
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So basically I am a mother of two and this theme came out of nowhere and it made me so depressed and terrified that I stayed away from my children. But then I decided I would not allow this to keep me from being a mother because I love my kids with pure motherly love. So I cuddled them, and hugged them, and played board games with them, and I started to realize my thoughts were completely irrational. Spend time with the children in your life, you’ll start to see how silly that was
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Did it go away completely for you?
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@Anonymous:,( Unfortunately I can’t say it went away completely even though it came out of absolutely nowhere. But exposure therapy absolutely works because I take care of my children every single day, I bathe them, change them, lay with them to go to sleep, and I realize that I literally have nothing to worry about. I know myself. I know who I have always been. I know that my worst fear is my children being abused and the thought makes me physically ill. So it makes it so much easier to laugh off the intrusive thoughts.
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Hi everyone, I wanted to reach out to see if anyone else has experienced something similar with OCD and intrusive thoughts. I’ve been struggling during moments of intimacy because intrusive thoughts, particularly ones related to POCD, feel so ‘sticky’—like they’re all I can picture. Even though I really want the thoughts to go away, they persist, and I’ve been trying not to avoid intimacy because of them. However, that makes me feel like I’m somehow ‘enjoying’ the thoughts or images, which I really dislike. It’s like my brain is playing this awful trick, and it’s leaving me feeling confused and gross. I guess I’m supposed to not let the thoughts bother me and continue as if nothing’s wrong, but I’m scared that by doing so, I’m almost training myself to get off to them or something. This fear makes it so hard to trust myself in those moments, and it’s been overwhelming. If anyone else has been through this, how do you handle it?
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I’ve been feeling the urge to avoid intimacy or purposefully engage (for reassurance that I won’t give into a compulsion) because of intrusive thoughts and fear that I’ll “check/test” my reactions. My OCD is making me so scared that I’ll purposefully think of a child and try to see if I like it. It’s so complicated but I guess I’m mentally checking if I would mentally check during intimacy. I’ve even envisioned myself checking and it’s making me so nauseous. I know it’s a compulsion like any other but the sound of “touching yourself to the thought of a child” sounds atrocious and vile. I’m terrified I’ll automatically start checking next time I am being intimate. I truly feel so worried. If anyone has gone through something similar, I’d appreciate hearing your experience. Or if anyone has any advice?
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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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