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Username: m1ch3ll3

Date posted: 1y ago

Stupid but actually made me cry

I was going through a server for ocd on Reddit and some random person who isn’t in the server started questioning groinal responses saying „if you aren’t at least a little bi you wouldn’t question being attracted to them“. And as I was explaining this further he also started to claim that if you’re scared of being a pedo then it probably makes you one bc „no normal person does that“. I know this comment was just absolute bs thrown out by a random person who doesn’t have ocd (but for some reason still knows abt intrusive thoughts) but it made me question everything again and made me feel like I might actually be all of these. I’ve been questioning liking my dog, my family members, children and other women. This is just eating me up

Username: Wolfram Wolfram

Date posted: 1y ago

The person has zero understanding and completely clueless. Ignorance is bliss. This is a perfect opportunity to practice dealing with intrusive thoughts and erp exercises

Username: Emmnala Emmnala

Date posted: 1y ago

@Invalid Yep!

Username: ck99ck99

Date posted: 1y ago

This is a great reason why Reddit is horrible to constantly check. I spent months compulsively checking and I definitely saw triggering content like that, which kind of backfires tbh. But he is a moron or has no understanding on how OCD works I’m pretty sure. Everyone has intrusive thoughts, and I hear that groinal responses are usually from anxiety

Username: m1ch3ll3m1ch3ll3

Date posted: 1y ago

@ck99 Yes and I even got him quotes from therapy websites that Specialise on ocd but he then simply said that feeling sth down there makes you gay/ a p… 💀

Username: ck99ck99

Date posted: 1y ago

@m1ch3ll3 Tbh after you saying he’s some weeb it checks out lmao, I think he’s just bored or trying to troll? Loser move either way i guess. But def don’t check on Reddit trust me, as tempting as it is it can def make things worse

Username: m1ch3ll3m1ch3ll3

Date posted: 1y ago

@ck99 Yes probably

Username: Ocd9239Ocd9239

Date posted: 1y ago

Nope, this person is just being ignorant. Please don't go on reddit, especially on ocd related ones, they can be super misleading and cause your doubts and anxiety to worsen. I'm sorry you've been going through this, I've been struggling similarly aswell. U got this!

Username: Liam45Liam45

Date posted: 1y ago

That person is one of two things. One, they are a boomer. Two, they were raised by a boomer or a conservative. Only those people have their worldview in that type of black and white shades. I personally don’t trust people who have a black and white view on the world, idc how close minded or hypocritical that makes me sound, that’s my world view.

Username: m1ch3ll3m1ch3ll3

Date posted: 1y ago

@Liam45 I viewed his profile and he’s some weeb so i guess he’s never seen the outside world

Username: IfiknewthenIfiknewthen

Date posted: 1y ago

My thought is that by constantly trying to assure that you are not a pedophile you are setting yourself up for failure. Us ocd people want assuredness and thats a big problem. My therapist used to say "maybe you are, maybe you arent. Maybe you will, maybe you wont." Now pedophlia ocd is harder in the sense that we are talking about something illegal. Wheras homosexual ocd we arent dealing with illegality. Now when you say pedophilia are you referring to someone under 18 or someone who is prepubescent?

Username: Liam45Liam45

Date posted: 1y ago

@jhbishop80@gmail.com With all due respect, does it matter if the fear involves prepubescent children or any persons any the age of 18?

Username: m1ch3ll3m1ch3ll3

Date posted: 1y ago

@jhbishop80@gmail.com Im still under 18 myself so my problems are all people below my age (16). I found a new friend who had to retake a class this year and she is 15 (2008) and I started questioning if I might be a homosexual p3do just bc I enjoyed talking to her

Username: m1ch3ll3m1ch3ll3

Date posted: 1y ago

@Liam45 Probably bc p3dophelia is under the age of 11/12/13 and the rest would be hebephile but it’s not possible for me to be a hebephile bc I’m also a minor

Username: IfiknewthenIfiknewthen

Date posted: 1y ago

@Liam45 - Well i am just making sure they understand definition of pedophilia according to dsm.

Username: Liam45Liam45

Date posted: 1y ago

@jhbishop80@gmail.com Got it. Between you and I always forget those definitions. I’m old fashioned, mess with anyone under 18 then…. Yeah. Only because that’s how I was taught about it growing up.

Username: IfiknewthenIfiknewthen

Date posted: 1y ago

@Liam45 - Yeah pedophilia is a person past puberty being sexually attracted to a prepubescent child. If a 30 year old man has sex with a 16 year old girl, its unlawful but not pedophilia. However, its considered abnormal because it goes against our societal norms/laws in the united states.

Username: Emmnala Emmnala

Date posted: 1y ago

That person is extremely uneducated

Username: JenniesOCDBrainJenniesOCDBrain

Date posted: 1y ago

hey there, i just read your post and i gotta say, that sounds incredibly tough. 😔 it's really unfair when someone tosses out comments that just fuel the fire, especially when you're already dealing with so much. while my obsessions might not be the same as yours from pure o, i totally get that gut-wrenching feeling when your mind just won't give you a break. i'm here to listen, and you're definitely not alone in this fight. i stumbled upon this free AI tool called "unstuck" (http://www.aiocdtool.com/) that's been a game-changer for me. it might be a good fit for what you're going through because it's like having a little pocket therapist that's there whenever those intrusive thoughts hit. since your mind is throwing a lot at you with these doubts and fears, "unstuck" could help you sort through those thoughts without getting caught up in seeking reassurance. it's all about guiding you through the steps to manage your OCD, kind of like what an ERP therapist would do, but it's right there when you need it. i'm not here to push anything on you, just wanted to share something that's been helpful for me. if you have any questions or just want to chat about it, i'm all ears. stay strong! 💪

Username: jelly

Date posted: 5y ago

Hey so I’m an 18 year old college student I’ve had ocd for a long time but I never wanted to admit this aspect of it as part of it and I still don’t. That’s why I won’t say it cause I’ll just end up crying again. I don’t even want to post about it cause this would just make the problem real. I know I’m not sexually attracted to them but my mind wants to trick me and I end up getting confused on which is rlly me, like the other aspects of my ocd. It spiked ig when someone sent me a meme and it was fine but at the end of it it showed a child being shown in a sexual way which was suppose to I guess be funny but it wasn’t rlly funny to me at all and got uncomfortable and the pocd thoughts came in hard and I had such a bad panic attack and then I felt the need to go back and check to see what I was feeling and went to the video the next day after avoiding it to see which after reading the threads here is I guess a big no no? I know I’m not sexually attracted but my mind is playing these games and confuses me and I’m so scared to even talk to my therapist about it or ask people for help cause what if they think I’m a pedophile? Children genuinely make me happy and I have a motherly instinct to care for them but my mind turns it into something darker and I know I don’t think of these kids sexually but it’s like I have the power to?And that freaks me out so much and it won’t leave me alone I don’t know what to do I know I’m not one but my mind is tricking me and it’s freaking me out and if my mind says it could be what if other people think I am no one I trust will even understand idk what to do I just needed to put this somewhere to vent

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Username: jharbi

Date posted: 1y ago

I'm scared that I could be a pedo. (Pocd)

So I (16 f) haven't been diagnosed with it but I think I have OCD. Specifically POCD and real event OCD. I did something in 2021 that I regretted then and I regret even more now. I read some fanfiction that involved incest and minors and I hated it. I hated it bc it was disgusting, bc it went against my morals, and bc I read it. I was bored but I still wish I didn't read them. And since April of this year, I have been suffering bc I read them. I'm scared I'm a pedo and I really don't want to be one bc I don't want to do the things they do to kids. I Don't even find kids attractive but I get groinal responses and I'm scared that I actually do. I suffer from intrusive thoughts everyday. Even though this flair up started in April, I've been suffering from it for a couple years. But nowadays I'll be lucky to go a hour without them. I posted a similar post like this on Reddit a month or two ago and all of the comments said I wasn't a pedo and that it was POCD but I'm spiraling. During those months I would be scared I was a pedo and not be scared bc I knew it was ocd back and forth but this time it's different. I'm scared that I'm actually a pedo but I don't want to be. I don't like the thoughts and I don't want to do anything to kids. I know people say that 'if you were a pedo you would like the thoughts." Or "if you were a pedo you would know you are." And that's helped me but now I feel like I could just be in denial. I tried to not let it bother me but my brain tells me that if I don't react, that means I like the thoughts. I have younger cousins and a nephew and I hate being around them bc I'm scared that I'll get attracted to them. I hate when my younger sister hugs me bc I get scared that I'll get attracted. There has been multiple times where I just went in my bathroom and just broke down crying. And I hate crying but I cried more than I usually do. It's gotten to the point where multiple times I felt suicidal and honestly I feel like that now. But I usually got over it and realized it was just OCD but I'm scared that it's not. And I feel like if it was just thoughts then maybe it would've been better but it's the fact that I read those even though I hated it and was disgusted by it. I just really don't know what to do. I'm sorry that this post is too long.

Username: dee012

Date posted: 43w ago

Pocd help Reddit

i went on Reddit to search for help, i posted a thread about a sexual physical compulsion i have related to my pocd, and a couple people messaged me asking for advice or whatever, this one guy did and we were chatting and he started saying some weird stuff and saying he thinks it’s really hot i have these intrusive thoughts and all this weird stuff and it triggered me really bad, i ended up crying and deleting the chat with him idk how to block but we were actually talking about it at first ( about intrusive thoughts ) and i was giving advice and it just turned weird. i feel like now i am a creep cuz why else would he say all that stuff to me?

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