im always worried about something when im bored and for a long time i have been scared of being a psyhopath how do i tell myself im not someone help and tell my how do i tell myself im not is this ocd?
Yeah I have ocd and it sounds similar to what I struggle with- my obsession was whether I was a psychopath too a couple years ago. I suggest you seek professional treatment as the number one thing you should do- but I have some things that have helped me. I found it helpful identifying any compulsions if there are any… Examples can be searching symptoms of a psychopath a lot, thinking of past memories where you may have been a psychopath a lot? If you have compulsions finding ways to avoid doing them will ease this anxiety in the long run because your brain will stop viewing this worry as so important. Accepting that whatever worry I was worrying about could possibly be true also helped and maybe I’ll never know the answer to whatever my obsession is and that’s fine. Maybe we are both psychopaths. No amount of fear and worrying is going to change that though. You deserve peace of mind and a life without the restraints of your anxiety. I’ve improved at not doing the mental compulsion of worrying about my obsession all day by doing this thing called worry time, which my councillor taught me, basically you schedule a time in the day for worrying, it can be before tea of after- anytime, but I don’t recommend doing it before bed because you need an activity to take your mind off your worries after your worry time otherwise you will probably stay up at night worrying. In worry time you write a list of what’s worrying and then you label them hypothetical or practical. A practical worry is something you can control, like if you’re worried about an exam you can put in your calendar to revise for it. Hypothetical is something you can’t control, like if you’re a psychopath and for those worries you have to distract yourself from them. When you are listing and labelling these worries you also have to do it between 5 and 15 minutes, I found 10 works for me, I thought it would be longer, but actually 10 is quite long. Then after worry time you need to do an activity that distracts you and makes you think of something else. I found using the app Duolingo as a good distraction technique because I just forget everything around me when I’m going on it and it’s such a cute designn :D Also don’t stress if your worry does come up when it isn’t worry time, it’s completely normal and won’t mess up the results, you just need to try to redirect your attention to something else. I’m not a doctor and again- seeking professional help is the 1st thing you should do, but I know how crappy waiting lists can be in some countries and this is what helped me :)
@Lilybethxoxo Sorry I forgot to include- the purpose of worry time is that you put off any worries you have in the day for this designated time
@Lilybethxoxo thanks so much but how do i tell my mind that im not a psycopath do you have any advice idk why that thing came to my mind i think because i saw a thing on tik tok
@denidom Oh TikToks can be pretty bad with discussing things like social issues, misinformation is so easily spread and when I was on it it never felt like topics were discussed to their full complexity because of how short TikToks are. I think that you should try to redirect your attention to something else instead of trying to tell your brain you’re not a psychopath when you’re brain just isn’t believing you
@Lilybethxoxo okay thanks so much ill try ❤️
Hello , You are not a psychopath . It is just OCD telling you that you are . If you find it easier to control your symptoms when you are doing something find yourself something to do: hobby , or what you always wanted to do later , or something that could make you feel relaxed like meditation . I hope that helps .
@ Liza how do i tell myself im not?
If you was one you wouldn’t be worry about it so you are not real one don’t care they don’t worry about it
@Monii thanks so much you made me a lot better
@denidom :) your welcome
I feel like there’s no way out of this. everyday i’m anxious and depressed from these thoughts. i feel like i have to constantly question if it’s OCD or not. the panic attacks are insane and i freak out. and a compulsion i have is looking eveything up on the internet when im stressing to know that it’s just my OCD and im not in danger. but looking things up add on to my thoughts and i start thinking “what if” actual suidcal people think. do others with this theme whenever they do something like if im taking a picture it’ll be like “yeah you look happy people will wonder what happened when your gone” LIKE i DO NOT want to end my life. or even as simple as cleaning my room, “yup keep it clean so when your family goes through your stuff” then i panic and can’t even do anything. those thoughts distress me so bad. i’ll sit there and think how good my life is or when im having a good day my thoughts will be like “NOPEEE what if your just saying that to convince yourself” it never shuts up and genuinely makes me think i have SI or something. i hope this reaches the right people just to know im not alone. Even when i do get better in the back of my mind it’s always “people who want to are the same a day before too” im genuinely scared and im scared one day im going to just snap and do it because its “too much” do i need to go to a mental hospital! i feel insane.
Sometimes I think " do I like kids?" "Would i get aroused if I saw content with kids?""What if I'm a pedo and cant accept it?" "What if I'm ok with these thoughts?" "What if I'm not distressed enough " "What if I enjoy these thoughts?" , i avoid kids as much as i can, i cant look at them bc I'm scared I'm gonna have some groin like response. I keep testing if I'd get turned on or if I'd have some groinal response to sexual scenarios with kids. Sometimes I think that if I took my life this would be over and i wouldn't have to think about this and i wish i doubted something else instead of things like this. I had similar situations just with different topics such as if i loved or found sexually appealing a guy while in a relationship and i kept asking myself those questions for months and i avoided going to school for weeks and when I went I'd cry and have anxiety attacks. I had it with past actions i obessed over and felt the need to exploit every detail and be honest because otherwise i was being a fraud. I had it for sexual things that happened when i was a child. Im not diagnosed with ocd but should i tell this to my local counselor? Can someone help? Give me advice or tell me anything?
Hi I just have a few questions! (Im 14 btw) Okay so basically I’m really worried I’ll become a pedo/I already am and I don’t know it yet. I’m also really scared if I SA someone, even tho I don’t want to and I’d never do something like that but I feel like this part of me is saying that I will and it’s really scaring me. I feel so alone and I’m so scared I’m a bad person on the inside and this isn’t ocd and I’m gonna unleash hell on this earth I’m so scared. I’ll get a thought like if I’m walking past someone random it will be like “What if you sa them?” And it scares me so bad I feel horrible for thinking that. Is this apart of it? I feel like I’m always fixated on the topic of sa to check if I would do something like that, I don’t know anymore I just feel like a bad person (btw I have not done anything like that to anyone!)
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