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- Racheljustine
- Date posted
- 2y ago
OCD and sex
Does anyone else have trouble weeding out thoughts of taboo sexual situations?
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- dogluv13dogluv13
- Date posted
- 2y ago
I have struggled with pedophilia ocd for the last 15 years. I suffered in silence for all that time, never telling a soul. I have been going through ERP therapy for almost a year now and things have gotten so much better. If you had told me a year ago that I would not only be posting on a forum, but actually typing "the P word" out for the world to see, I never would have believed you. I know how scary it is. I know what it feels like. I came so close to suicide so many times. You are not alone.
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- bagelwithbutterbagelwithbutter
- Date posted
- 2y ago
You’re not alone! I’ve been struggling with intrusive thoughts during sex that I have such a hard time accepting, which I know makes them even worse. I’m so embarrassed about them and even nervous to talk about it in therapy. I think taking the approach of self-compassion is what you need to begin with here, because feeling the judgements about yourself / your thoughts only brings more distress.
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- Cl72828Cl72828
- Date posted
- 2y ago
I get taboo intrusive thoughts while being intimate with my bf and it feels terrible, but usually I can understand what my mind is trying to do. I think if you have sexual obsessions you dislike of COURSE your mind is going to try to conjure them up and make you uncomfortable while doing something sexual! I usually realize the pattern of what my brain is trying to do and can say yeah I know what’s trying to happen here, not gonna let this bother me!
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- RacheljustineRacheljustine
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- 2y ago
That used to be a huge struggle of mine, but it subsided, I used to work in the school system and OCD seems to attack what you value most and I valued the children and their safety and their wellbeing, but I felt I couldn't even touch them out of fear I'd be somehow molesting them...even just a pat on the shoulder or a high five...it made me feel like I'd never be able to have my own children
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- BigGyro09BigGyro09
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- 2y ago
I get sexual intrusive thoughts with groinals daily. It doesn't that it's mostly reinforced by the pornography in the past. That's all that goes through my head. I would like one day where I'm not thinking of sex at all and just focused on what I need to be focused on.
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- bagelwithbutterbagelwithbutter
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- 2y ago
I’ve been struggling with something like this— would you be comfortable being more specific?
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- RacheljustineRacheljustine
- Date posted
- 2y ago
Not same sex stuff, although, same sex attraction has been permeating my mind, just anything illegal or anything that would cause close relative and friends to be disgusted. I feel like a lot of my OCD is terribly embarrassing and would cause others to hate me out of misunderstanding
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- RacheljustineRacheljustine
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- 2y ago
What is self comparison?
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- bagelwithbutterbagelwithbutter
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- 2y ago
sorry— self compassion
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- RacheljustineRacheljustine
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- 2y ago
@bagelwithbutter OH! yeah, I need to practice that way more
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- AnonymousAnonymous
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- 2y ago
i struggle with this as well!
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- Danny2003
- Date posted
- 43w ago
I'm having Sexually intrusive thoughts about my GF.
Hey, well, this is my first time ever posting in here but I figured why not? I’ve been struggling with this issue for almost three months now and it’s been a constant battle, I guess I just really need some support, so almost a year ago now, I got in a relationship and I realized I may be Asexual since I didn’t really have any sexual desires towards my partner, starting late November though, I began to have these intrusive images in my head of us having sex. These thoughts have caused me a lot of anxiety and stress as well as depression. It’s weird, I know deep down in my heart I don’t desire any of that with her but the thoughts feel so real at times and sometimes that makes me feel like I want the thoughts. I’m pretty much lost at this point and don’t know if whether it is OCD or if I’m just in denial. The thing is, I don’t want to see her that way, she doesn’t want to ever engage in any sexual activity and I want to respect that and respect the decision we both made to never do so unless it’s to have a baby. I just feel a sense of doom I guess, I’m scared that I might like the thoughts when I don’t want to like them. I’d feel so much guilt if it isn’t OCD and it’s actually me, and the thought of that terrifies me. I hope every day it’s OCD.
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- iheartyouxo
- Date posted
- 34w ago
ocd and sex
how do u deal with guilt caused by intrusive thoughts during sexual activities?
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- Weird berry
- Date posted
- 30w ago
SO-OCD HELP
Let me start by saying that I am not diagnosed but I suspect I have OCD. I came out as a lesbian girl 6 years ago but lately I have very often intrusive sexual thoughts about men. These thoughts make me feel disgusted, annoyed, anxious and uncomfortable but I can't help but check every time I can whether I'm attracted or not. I don't want to get married to a man, I don't want to have sex with men or even have any kind of relationship but at the slightest trigger I start to think I'm hiding something. I know everyone has noticed that I'm slowly shutting down, I'm no longer the same but I can't say what's going on in my head. Could it be OCD? and how do I stop thinking about it?
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