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How do you use ERP (exposure response prevention) to help “just right” OCD? I’ve never quite understood how to expose myself to anything to help me not do my compulsions since a lot of my feelings are just that it’s not right Like for germ/cleaning OCD they say to touch a trash can or something to expose yourself and not give in to your compulsions, but how would you do something like that with just right ocd?

My trans intrusive obsession has gotten to the point where I look at other people and go “they’re trans.” without reason. Like I’ll be looking at a man for example and be like “he secretly wants to be a woman” and then I’ll push the thought out of my brain and my brain just goes “oh do you already have a gaydar??” HELP

Hey guys. My thing right now is that I’ll think about times when I’ve kissed my boyfriend and in the moment I’ll be very happy, but now the thoughts of just “Why did you do that!” “You shouldn’t have done that!” Keep racing in my head. Like when I’m alone with him I’m fine but then my ROCD steps in and makes it seem like everything I’m doing is wrong.

False Memories? - - - - How many people here have dealt with false memories in some capacity? Mine started very recently and I have new ones often. ( i have had checking OCD nearly my whole life that came and went and varied in severity but recently ramped up and became the worst it’s ever been, then out of nowhere i had a spike and suddenly created false memories) They often start out with a real event in some capacity and then if there’s a gap in my memory (because the initial event I’m remembering happened so long ago) then I begin with the “what if’s” until I can begin to create a false memory in my head. The more I begin to question if the what if’s could’ve truly happened, the more my brain visualizes what those what if’s could’ve looked like, and then I ruminate and ruminate. Looking for any small detail that would help me remember whether or not my suspicions and what if’s could’ve been true. (Most thoughts sway towards the negative end of the scope because I’m so so worried about being a bad pedían) These events that trigger the false memories have happened so long ago (3 years to 10+ years ago) that I will never be able to remember enough details to know forsure what’s true and what isn’t. I wake up in the morning in distress because the anxiety is already there. I often wake up with panic attacks and then I spend the whole day ruminating and then beginning to feel like a terrible person because if these false memories are actually true then I must be a terrible person. I ruminate, do online research, and constantly confess any new things that pop into my head that make me believe I could potentially be the bad person my false memories make me feel like I am. It is the most stressful and debilitating thing I’ve ever experienced and I constantly wish I could go back in time before I ever began creating the false memories because I feel I could’ve lived the rest of my life fairly normally (despite having what felt like mild OCD, anxiety, and depression compared to what I’m dealing with now). I am so hurt by the idea of being the person my false memories could make me be that I constantly think about suicide. I always know I would be too afraid to actually do it and I also can’t bare how it would affect my partner and my family, but whenever I’m not ruminating about false memories or under extreme distress over them, I’m thinking about ways I may kill myself. I feel like I have no control and that I may do it with random objects within the blink of an eye. And all while my brain constantly thinks “what if this isn’t ocd, what if you really did do these bad things and you’re definitely a bad person for it and you can’t live a life being that type of person”. Has anyone else felt anything similar? My false memories are also linked to relationship ocd and pedophile ocd. :(

Hey I’m in a relationship that is so good and strong but I keep having thoughts even when we are together “oh you don’t love him” or “this isn’t really what you want “ “ you feel so much better alone etc” can anyone relate?

I don't understand how I could orgasm to testing myself...more than once. I haven't tested myself via masturbation after that happened because I'm terrified obviously, but how could that happen to me? Does it mean anything? I orgasmed very quickly does that mean it was a stress response? Please help

i dont know exactly what i’m feeling. i know ocd isn’t logical and trying to get to the core of it is hard, but i think what terrifies me is that i (everyone for that matter) have the potential to do horrible things. to stop loving my parents, to hurt my little sister, to hurt myself, and that i’m just resisting the urge to do so. my ocd used to be one theme pocd and incest ocd and for some reason i’ve managed to dismiss the thoughts easier but i’m tired of being in my head all the time, i’m tired of my brain not shutting up. do you guys have any tips to help me?

I feel a lot of shame for ever having watched porn in the past, I have moral scrupulosity OCD, and my thoughts are always like "what if you're a bad person because you watched porn in the past because good moral people dont watch porn?" I havent watched porn in a year and I avoid it like the plague. I know its normal for most people to have experienced porn at some point in their lives. Idk how to get over these thoughts, it feels like noone understands me or my type of intrusive thoughts :(

My hocd revolves around porn. As I've seen same sex porn before, and have been aroused by it, it works as a proof to my hocd. It's it main weapon. It's awful that I get this urge to watch it, it's as if I HAVE to do it, or it won't leave me alone. I feel gross, I'm never mentally turned on, but my body responds to it. I'm terrified that I'm sexually attracted to women, even if I don't want to. I don't want to be with them, I feel awful. As I'm doing in my recent posts, I'll ask you to be mindful of your answer. This is hocd, I hope so, and I'm already triggered enough.

Really struggle to understand why this happened to me in the middle of such a good relationship.

Hi guys, I'm newly diagnosed and my themes change constantly. Most of my compulsions or rituals are mental. I don't really know how to help myself here because I've yet to find a specialist in my city that takes my health insurance. I've done some research online and I understand that I need to do ERP, I'm just not sure how to do that on my own or if I'd be doing it correctly. Anyways, I do want to talk about something that happened to me last night and has now been triggering me all day.. I was at my parents house last night and they have a neighbor directly across from their backyard that comes over and speaks to them sometimes. She's an older woman in her 80s. She lives with her son, his wife and their 15 year old daughter. I've spoke to this woman several times but not the others.. anyways, last night while I was at my parents we had all noticed police, fire trucks and ambulances over at their house. It was a complete mess, so many people. Immediately we all thought something was wrong with the old woman until she came outside with the granddaughter.. she was fine.. then the husband came out and he was freaking out..more paramedics ran inside.. we then realized something was wrong with the wife. An hour went by and everyone left so we thought everything was okay, that was until more cops came. I was standing in my parents kitchen , it was pitch black outside and I realized I had seen two people walking towards the back door. It ended up being the older woman. I walked outside toward her and I asked her if she was ok and if everyone was alright. She looked at me with terror in her eyes and said that Karen, her daughter in law was gone. I gasped and didn't know what to say..I hugged her and as my parents walked outside we all asked what happened and if we could do anything for her. She said they weren't sure what happened. She was sleeping and didn't respond when they tried to wake her. She also said Karen was depressed and last week went and got put on medication. Corners were coming to do autopsy and everything and that she'd tell us when she knew more. By the way she said this, it made me wonder if Karen took all her pills and killed herself. I'm haunted by the entire night, the thought of what if she killed herself and the look on the old lady's face when I went out to talk to her. I'm not even sure if it's ok to talk about this because I'm not sure if I talk about things that I'm obsessing over, if it ends up doing me any good. All I know is that the thought of her possibly killing herself has me very triggered because I've had suicidal thoughts. I've been fighting my brain over if I want to take medicine to help myself with my OCD and now, I know 100% I don't want to touch the stuff. I guess I'm coming here to not ask for reassurance but to ask for help on how to properly do some sort of ERP or whatver the case may be to stop obsessing over this night . I know I can't get rid of the thoughts but how do I properly respond? I can't stop thinking about it. And it triggered me wanting to harm myself and I know I never would but of course the intrusive thoughts of wanting to, scare me to death so I've been obsessing all day long. Please, someone point me in the right direction. I appreciate you for taking time to read all of this.

Does anyone else ever have obsessions about death and the afterlife? This is something I’ve struggled with on and off for years but I can’t seem to make these thoughts go away because my ocd is telling me this is a real fear and there’s no counter thought to act as the compulsion for it because it’s the unknown and that really freaks me out

Anyone with HOCD ever get stuck on a friend and think you are in love with them? Then it might calm down but the thoughts are “you really like them” or something else that makes you think you are in love with them?

Any body here with transgender ocd that evolved from from hocd, and now they are intertwined. Is really amazing how our brains works, my brain went from hocd to harm ocd to pedohile ocd to relationships ocd and now transgender ocd. And the heart of the matter is that I don’t care what it is no more, fuck reassurance and I’m not going to play ocd games anymore, if it says I’m a woman or female, I guess I might be or might not. Honestly, half of the time I’m happy that I’m unsure about my gender andthe anxiety swells up. That way I can let thought be and see the whole picture of thoughts even if they were true. I honestly don’t know if they are true or not but I will live with it and live according to my values. Btw I was triggered while I wrote, I hope I stay triggered ?????.

Why is my genital area tingling? Sorry to anyone for TMI. I'm not aroused at all I don't even think about anything sexual when its happening. I'm actually pretty upset. Because I'm not attracted to underage boys. But my mind is trying to convince me that I am. How do I make it go away. It comes and goes randomly but I just want that feeling gone. Its disgusting because it's happening at all of the wrong times. These intrusive thoughts spiked from my fiance's nephew. Dose anyone know how this will end when I tell him? I'm scared. Why is this happening to me? This is a nightmare.

I’m feeling pretty isolated because of my obsessions, I’m having a hard time making connections, any suggestions for small steps?

Triggering for contamination ocd potentially. I just googled something bout therapy and the site gave me an example of a contamination thought that triggered me. "What if someone with aids and bleeding hands touched it". Can anyone help me through this?

Does anyone else have a ocd where they constantly have to redo something over? Or something has to be right like the right thoughts? I am wasting money and time because of this and depressed out of my mind. I cant even get out of bed and get dress because all I think is bad things as I do something and have to redo everything over. I have bought things and trashed them just because of the thought I had as I got it.

Sooooooo omg my mom mentioned that she saw a show on televisopn where people with weird mental ilnesses spoke and she mentioned that there was someone with hocd and how she thought it was weird but she thought in this generation she doesnt blame people for having it because it isnt their own fault and there is alot of pressure on your sexuality and omg i got sooo red and i felt like i was gonna burst out in tears and tell them everyything i was sooo close to just break and tell them what ive been going trough for the past year. Im so freaked out and like... i jusr wanna tell them but im ashamed and i know i will n e v e r tell them but i cant believe i got this close. And i just dont know what to do bevause on the show the doctor said a looot of people approached him with having hocd and that its really a new big mental ilness thing. You know what it is, my mom said that the man on the show who had hocd said he wasnt in to guys at all but his brain told him he liked it and that was me in the ebginning of hocd but now i have a feeling i cant relate anymore and that hurts so much because its like hocd has gotten so deep into me that i honestly believe it and like i created genuine feelings towards woman. I dont know what to think anymroe. I pray everynight god will Release me and somehow i feel like this is my punishment for not listenig to Him and i also todsy read in the bible That people who ignore god do things wrong when it comes to sexual stuff and that people wont be able to think clear anymore and that they will be lost and thats just me and im So afraid because the bible says people will be punished for it idk im so freaked out!!!! I wanna be a better person so bad but i cant when my brain is like this i need help from god but im scared he just rejects me vecause ive been a horrrible person. So selfish and i know my heart is ebtter than that but i cant set good apart from bad bevause my brain wont let me. Its like i dont give a shit about anyhting anymore and i miss me who could think clear and who was genuine and honored god. Its like ny current brain cant do that snymore it doesnt have the right functions for it anymorw. Like the good part in me had been cut out and im tryna find it but its destroyed and theres no way it will come back.

I took an online quiz about if I’m straight or in denial and the results came out as gay/bi. I guess it’s time to accept it, despite not feeling it ??‍♀️