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- 3y
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- 3y
Wouldnt make sense for professionals make up soocd, because the treatment is to expose yourself to the situation and accept the possibility of the thought. That wouldn’t make a person more in denial. Also, gay people have soocd. So what would be the professionals main objective? To turn in the closet straight people into gay people and in the closet gay people into straight people ? Sounds like a weird and pointless treatment. Why would real pedophiles be trained to not be around children by the same professionals, and trained to be around children with people with ocd? You see the distorted logic that ocd creates? They know these subs types because they have conducted research that has shown consistent patterns through all ocd subtypes. A thought or feeling comes up, regardless of the theme, and then a feeling or thought comes after. The thought gets stuck, and the person tries to get rid of it through rituals either mental or physical. The thoughts get stuck because the mind has learned the thought to be a threat, and so it continues to solve the “problem.” But the problem can’t be solved, and so the relief the person seeks is by doing rituals. But studies show that when a person does not give in to compulsions, the fear is not reinforced. They have also noticed that people have different themes and sub types depending on the things they focus and fear the most. Soocd usually happens to people who value and are attached to their sexuality identity. ROCD are people who tend to value the idea of having a great relationship and are afraid of being trapped and stuck in a relationship that isn’t the one they want. So all ocd people face the same problem, they are afraid of something and they are looking for certainty. And so there minds gets stuck because there is none
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- 3y
Very well put.
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- 3y
That totally makes sense and that's very well put. It's definitely me overthinking about the complexity of ocd. It's like how is this real??? Almost like it doesn't seem like it could be a real mental disorder. But obviously it is lol. And when i typed that, it was definitely a raving thought that was not rational whatsoever. I appreciate you typing all that!
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- 3y
I relate to these thoughts, it’s awful
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- 3y
i guess they know because the same tools (ERP for instance) can help with recovery and the nature of that recovery is: when people stop worrying about being x sexual orientation and the symptoms that led them to believe they might be lose their significance, the symptoms go away or are revealed to be normal behaviors for people not of x sexual orientation. you would assume that, when people accept that they may be x sexuality they would begin to exhibit more essential traits of that sexuality, but recovery from OCD works the opposite way.
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- 3y
and i should be clear what i mean by “essential traits.” i mean the symptoms of attraction, e.g. groinal responses, and not stereotypical traits of individuals with that sexual orientation.
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- 3y
@CaptainKierkegaard Also, I don’t know what the data says on this, but it seems like people who have had SOOCD have had this experience. I could be wrong.
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- 20w
There’s something that happens that keeps me stuck in a thought, it’s when I can see some part of myself agreeing with or relating to it in some way. That’s when the doubt creeps in. If I can understand *why* the thought is there, doesn’t that mean it’s not just random? Doesn’t that mean it actually reflects something about me? For example **(TMI/TW)**: I had the thought, *“I wonder what other people’s kinks are (including friends, family, even teenagers).”* And then I caught myself thinking, *“Well, I guess that could be interesting information… maybe I wouldn’t even stop someone from sharing it with me. Does that mean I actually want to know? Wait—does that make me perverted or incestuous for even having this curiosity?”* The same thing has happened with other thoughts, like wondering what someone’s privates might look like. I recognize that, on some level, that could be interesting—but does that mean the thought is truly mine? Maybe the answer is super obvious and I just can’t see through my OCD smoke. This was a bit embarrassing for me to write 🥲, but can anyone provide some insight?
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- 9w
Have you ever had a thought about sexual taboo topics, when you have a person for whom ocd is attached, that you think "maybe that person wants that, that's the way he looks at me or what do I know" what if that person wanted it, and you feel an urge to do something about it, you say or what do I know?
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- 6w
I was diagnosed with OCD around the age of 6, subtype- contamination primarily. It calmed down as I got older and I assumed it had gone away, but also didn’t realize it can show up in other ways, and it still had been effecting me which I know now. I’m not 31 and I’ve been in therapy for a year and it’s helped a lot, although I sometimes get thoughts that what if some of the stuff I’m dealing with isn’t ocd and I’m exaggerating. I feel like thoughts will feel sticky and I’ll do certain compulsions but then the thought eventually vanishes if I do it a few times which makes me think maybe it’s not OCD since other people/friends I know would probably do the exact same thing. Not sure if I’m making sense, but I guess my question is if that thought comes up with anyone else? Just being unsure if something you’re doing actually is ocd or not.
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