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POCD and guilt
Hi all, I was wondering how other people with POCD deal with the guilt and shame that come with the POCD
Hi all, I was wondering how other people with POCD deal with the guilt and shame that come with the POCD
Yes especially when it crosses with real event ocd
I had a really bad bout of POCD about 2 years ago and the guilt killed me for a while. The best way I dealt with it personally was just to see myself as someone with a severe anxiety disorder and not a p. It was hard at first since the OCD makes you doubt you have OCD but I told myself that over and over until it settled into my thought patterns. Eventually that's partially what helped the POCD go away as well. I still get the intrusive thoughts but I'm mostly able to ignore them as I just think "that's OCD" and they go away :)
Yes pocd was my first ever theme before I even knew I had ocd or what it even was. Took me a few years to get through it and over the guilt completely but it does happen. My therapist would always tell me you are not hurting anyone with those thoughts except for yourself and you have to forgive yourself.
I did a few sexual compulsions (only with myself of course) in the past (2 months ago , did it couple of times) and I regret it BADLY I want to die every time because of that because of the guilt that I can’t handle it I feel like a monster I can’t move on from this. I feel like I deserve nothing in life. I prefer to kill myself then do it again. Like what went on my mind. I wanted to check and get rid of the thought but I can’t live with the shame. I posted this a few times but cant move on. What I did was BAD sexual compulsion. My therapist said to me that people with ocd can have a sever compulsions. And I think I told her about this compulsion but I think she forgot so I’m planning to said it to her again so she will tell me if it’s actually ocd or not. And the fact that I did have another themes before Pocd but I don’t know if I have Pocd anymore cause I feel like a monster and like I crossed the line. I’m terrified that I went to far. I regret I badly. There is not a single day I’m not thinking about it and want to kill my self. That compulsion is against my morals like I become the person I was afraid of all the time. The shame will it me until the day that I die
Feel guilty for not giving into compulsions like rumination and confessing? I feel guilt for having an intrusive thought, trying to shrug it off or just giving it a few seconds of thought and moving along. This sounds like improvement but I still struggle with the anxiety and the guilt. The shame. I’ll be okay and then I’ll remember I have OCD and my stomach will drop and I just want to curl up and cry.
Hi everyone, I wanted to reach out to see if anyone else has experienced something similar with OCD and intrusive thoughts. I’ve been struggling during moments of intimacy because intrusive thoughts, particularly ones related to POCD, feel so ‘sticky’—like they’re all I can picture. Even though I really want the thoughts to go away, they persist, and I’ve been trying not to avoid intimacy because of them. However, that makes me feel like I’m somehow ‘enjoying’ the thoughts or images, which I really dislike. It’s like my brain is playing this awful trick, and it’s leaving me feeling confused and gross. I guess I’m supposed to not let the thoughts bother me and continue as if nothing’s wrong, but I’m scared that by doing so, I’m almost training myself to get off to them or something. This fear makes it so hard to trust myself in those moments, and it’s been overwhelming. If anyone else has been through this, how do you handle it?
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