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Fam you were a baby/ toddler. You weren’t trying to do anything bad. Let it go. Other people’s poor choices are not your fault.
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I felt guilty for being groomed and attacked by someone as a young teen. I think it's our brains way of making sure it doesn't happen again and possibly our mind is framing the emotional response to the event incorrectly. Do you feel as if it's your fault, only because you know better and are wiser now? If so, remember that you aren't who you are now, back then. Hindsight is a b*tch. Life has learning curves. You were extremely young and you were learning about life. You can't legally consent to anything for a reason at that age
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@odettetheotter This sounds like karma really resonates with your core values. Like moral scrupolosity. I forget, are you in therapy?
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@odettetheotter What therapy were you in and maybe they meant they couldn't help you? (based on their knowledge)
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@odettetheotter Did it help you at all?
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@odettetheotter I'd just seek another therapist. Maybe emdr for trauma and erp for ocd
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I’m so sorry that your mother made hurtful comments towards you. Do you have the capability of attending therapy? I really feel as though you need to speak to a OCD therapist about this. Don’t give up, managing OCD can be a bitch ❤️🩹
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Your mom twisted your head a little bit there. your mom was the embarrassment and your mom was disgusting and nasty for making you feel guilty. She should’ve been feeling guilty. because you were a baby and a toddler and she was a full-grown adult and needed to get herself together. she’s the embarrassment not you. And you did literally nothing wrong you just have OCD that is making you feel heavily guilty for no apparent reason because that’s what it does
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i feel like i have been posting a lot about this and i will try to stop since now but i just don't know where to start or what to do, and i can't take therapy right now either. my event is about something that did actually happen; i had a boyfriend and we had a 1.5 age difference (i know this sounds stupid) but the thing is that we both started to sext a lot since he was 14 and i was 15. we shared audios videos pictures ect and i don't know how to just let this go, even when i know that i never really forced him into anything and i was always constantly worried about him being comfortable, when to stop and ect. the memories keep coming back to my mind and the guilt is eating me up slowly because i keep thinking that i'm a predator or a groomer or something like that. i don't know how to deal with the what ifs either, lately i haven't stopped thinking what if i sexually harassed or sexually exploited him or something like that. how do i deal with the cycle of guilt and constant what ifs if i also feel like my event is worse than others i've seen? please help me with this. it's getting a lil tiring and even if somedays i know how to deal with this, i still get really triggered sometimes. this wouldn't even bother me before, i wish i could just get back in time before this theme popped into my mind. my life has been a hell since then and i live constantly scared and suicidal.
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Struggling. My mind/OCD told me I had already abused my child by breathing when they were laying across me and that I might as well do something else to hurt them. I had to think for a second, but the only thing that came to mind was to move my elbow towards their groin area to cause a "feeling". Well I did just that, and I ended up grazing their groinal area and it caused a disgusting unwanted feeling. I IMMEDIATELY wanted to throw up and panicked. I also asked my child to move off of me immediately. It went against my morals, beliefs, and values as an individual and mother. I can't stop thinking about it and it's very debilitating. I didn't enjoy a single moment of it. But my question to you guys is am the monster that I've always been scared of being? Do I belong in the ground? Do I deserve to have a wonderful life and wonderful, perfect child?
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I think I know what honestly is what caused my OCD. I’ve never told anyone this but I have to if I want help. When I was either 10 or 11, I think 10 I was at my family’s thanksgiving dinner. Around this time I discovered porn and got addicted. I would watch porn and read erotica. Because of this I guess I wanted to experiment. I feel absolutely horrible just thinking about this but I was playing around with my little cousin, he was around 7 I think and I remember we were playing chase or hide and seek, and I grabbed him and hugged him (something I never done before), and got a boner. I did this for pleasure. That’s all I did that was sexual but I feel so horrible. I try to give myself grace as I was only 10 and didn’t know the consequences of something so disgusting. I keep thinking “what if I went farther and hurt him?”. I talk to him sometimes and he seems comfortable with me and I think he doesn’t even remember this ever happened and just thought I hugged him for some reason all those years ago. I am NOT attracted to him at all but I think this incident and remembering it when I was 14 has caused my OCD such as POCD for all these years. I am 18 now but I feel absolutely horrible. And now it’s even worse because I have been invited to his 15th birthday party in Mexico. I’m traveling all the way to another country just to be near him! Obviously I know I won’t touch him or be innopropriate with him. But what if he has felt uncomfortable with me all this time? He seems fine with me and not uncomfortable around me but still. If I feel as if I go to this trip, I am a horrible person. I don’t know what to do. Am I a horrible person for what I did and continuing to be around him? I remember reading Reddit and Quora stories of similar people who felt horrible and people told them to not feel bad as they were only children and they learned and now know that was wrong and that to not tell anyone as it could only make things extremely awkward.Please help. I know COCSA is a very serious topic that harms people and I feel like a horrible perpetrator now.
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