Struggling

I'm struggling so badly with not closing my eyes for fear I see someone's privates!

Tea and Honey

Date posted: 1y

Nathan Peterson has a whole online course that I think would help everyone here. Here’s a link, one second

itsallok

Date posted: 1y

I’ve learned with this type of thing in therapy that you have to accept the thought. The longer you tell yourself stop thinking that or label it weird it’s gonna come up more. Just say that’s an interesting thought. Doesn’t mean anything. Thoughts are thoughts. We have so many a day. We as people with OCD tend to get stuck to certain thoughts. Try leaves on a stream technique it helps me. If it gets in the way of things maybe even exposures with a therapist that can help you envision these thoughts and eventually be able to have them and move on. Because you can’t prevent thinking or seeing something. The way the brain just works you just hear it/see it even more:/ hang in there and don’t be hard on yourself

Tea and Honey

Date posted: 1y

Don’t close your eyes!!! This is a compulsion. The OCD wants you to close your eyes because it wants us to do socially awkward stuff and make us miserable. OCD is a bully. The only way to defeat it is to IGNORE it. Let OCD throw all the thoughts at you that it wants. Let it say, “Oh, you are a bad person, you saw someone’s privates. You are a monster because you looked!!” Your response should be, “Hmmm, that’s nice. Maybe I am a monster. Maybe I’m not. Oh well. Whatever.” Then you REFUSE to do the compulsion. This means you refuse to shut your eyes. This is what it means to practice exposure therapy: You expose yourself to the trigger (which is a person whose privates your OCD wants to scare you about). And then you refuse to do the compulsion (shut your eyes). You are going to train your brain that it can throw terrible thoughts at you all day, and you just don’t care. (That’s why you can respond with “Maybe I am a bad person, maybe not. I don’t know, whatever.”) Nathan Peterson does an awesome job talking about this. I’ll put a link below.

Tea and Honey

Date posted: 1y

The more you practice responding to the thoughts with a non-caring response, the more your brain learns that it can’t bother you. Treat the OCD thoughts like a little brother who is pestering you, but will leave you alone if you don’t validate his behavior. Tell the thoughts things like this: “Hmmmm, whatever you say, my thoughts. You are welcome to yell at me all day. Glad you are here today, evil thoughts. Boy, I am glad my OCD showed up today.”

Tea and Honey

Date posted: 1y

Watch this:):) https://youtu.be/KfN80nk0V6Q?si=7GqmtmUaJXSe9Zux

Crawfish

Date posted: 1y

Thanks so much!! This is a great idea!!

Tea and Honey

Date posted: 1y

@Crawfish We can take away the power of the bully of OCD when we just don’t care what he is telling us. :):):)

Lulu~

Date posted: 24w

Someone please help me right now

I’m a csa survivor which made me develop hypersexuality while actually being a asexual individual. (Where I did CP and talked to groomers and sexted, ect ect) A few months ago I’ve started to heal, but the fact that I’ve seen so many private parts since I was idk, young? I imagine them everywhere, it’s really frustrating and sometimes I also get intrusive thoughts about other kids or my siblings. It’s deeply distributing but I also kind of think of it from a curious kind of aspect which I despise too. Honestly I have a hard time with any kid in underwear, my intrusive thoughts have been ALOT the last months and they’re really really overwhelming. I also easily go into overanalysing them or even trying to figure out more clearer the thoughts to “test myself”. I think, I hope. Idk it’s scary

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Anonimus ME 🦋

Date posted: 24w

I can't do it anymore and I don't trust myself..😞

I can't anymore.. Erp is very traumatic for me. It's about a sexual topic, and I come out with those scenes in my head, as well as photos of that person where their face makes me think of sexual grimaces. Every time, but every time during practice, I get detailed scenes and groinal. To me it looks like real sexual excitement, and I don't know exactly how to be immune to something that is sex in itself! I don't believe it's part of ocd at all..because it won't come off me and I can't believe it's not me

Vangogh00021

Date posted: 19w

Help please

I was trying to sleep in an aunt house and I’m suffering from nightmares or when I take naps or sleep I dream horrible things, and I took a little nap and I was about to start having a nightmare and I woke up. There’s a person that lives here and he’s not even here but I was about to have a dream with him it’s so scary he’s not even my family member or anything. And like it’s a delicate topic. But it’s the feeling that I can’t even sleep sometimes without dreaming this things that are so scary . And the groinal responses are about to kill me ! This is truly destroying my life I don’t know what to do I don’t want to be like this but I’m too tired to stay awake and too tired to sleep

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