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Hi I needed a few questions answered. Can someone please help me? I have had OCD for as long as I can remember and im an asexual. I recently developed an obsession that I'm not actually ace. Is this fear common or has anybody experienced it? Also I have homosexual ocd and I fear that I might be L :(. Is this also something anybody has experienced? Or has as an asexual person? I could really use some help atm
Tomorrow is my first therapy session with nocd. Any advice on what to expect during the 90 minute "diagnostic assessment"?
I know this sounds bad but sometimes I think what if I’m not strong enough or capable enough to have a happy life bc of my ocd & I’m scared I’ll suffer everyday of my life because I was symptom free for 10 months but cut back on my meds & relapsed. I’m scared I just want a snow glob to look in to see if it’s worth fighting
Hello everyone. I am a desperate mother looking to help her son. He has Pure OCD he is struggling really hard but he would not get help. I don’t know what I can do as a mother? He stayed in his room at all times. He is not interested in school or activities. Please any recommendations. Does this ever happen to anyone?
I thought ERP was about letting your have the obsession & not do the compulsion. Today, I talked to my therapist about a past theme I overcame (not knowing if I dropped money on the ground) & how I overcame that. I overcame that by simply letting the thought (what if I've dropped money) be there & then not doing the compulsion (checking). I asked him if this was ERP, but he never told me. He said if a client was struggling he would have them purposefully drop money on the ground. So I don't understand. Is ERP letting yourself have the obsession & not do the compulsion or is it doing the content inside the obsession? I am very distraught because I feel like nobody is on the same page when it comes to what ERP is & how it works I am so overwhelmed right now, everything is confusing, I don't understand the way this therapy works. I never have. It's never benefited me. What I do know has benefited me is letting the thoughts be there & not reacting, but apparently that's wrong?? I feel like this is a sick circus game or something.
PLEASE HELP ME okay so basically ever since like 2 days ago i had this thought and, i basically like felt something really weird, but it was so random. i literally just woke up, thought of that , then had that weird feeling. ever since that day i hated myself and couldn't forgive myself. i feel like i'm a p*do and deserve to die. i feel like i crossed the line for sure. i've already tried ending my life multiple times. also for some reason these days i literally am so confused because i don't even know what's going on anymore. like for some reason i keep on doing things that i wouldn't think, but then regretting it the second after that. it's so gross of me. i hate myself. i want to promise myself that i'll stop. its like i know i'm not attracted to children but for some reason it feels like my mind wants me to be a p*do. and the thing is it isn't even random thoughts about children, it's like about anything, literally anything. i even had a thought about a table. also i'm literally 15 i think i ruined my life
It’s been a while since I’ve posted - I have been doing moderately well. My biggest obsession were false memory obsessions but since getting over that, I can see however my mind trying to grab many different things to obsess on. It has been mainly around intent. When changing my kids or wiping them when they decide they would rather not use the toilet, my mind is so much more attentive to where my hands are and what my thoughts are. And I recently(last night) had a thought that I knew would instantly latch on to me last night when I was wiping my son. And it had to with just gross stuff where I’d wipe him and my mind would connect his butt with like a typical female butt and I’d see it move because I’m wiping him and I’d get these weird thoughts / phrases in my head. And than I had to wipe again because I mean it was everywhere lol. But now I’m like did I wipe him again because of thought and I wanted to see his butt like move? Like I know that in this moment that seems just like junk to me but I can’t help to wonder what was my true intent or whatever in that moment? I know because this has happened a lot these last few weeks, almost like a new theme or way of obsessing. Because I get very guilty over this stuff and I just want to have a normal interaction where I can wipe my kid and not have a thought or even try to fight the thought and than question my intent. I’m trying to be like well that was weird, let’s move on. Anyone know if this is common? I am just trying to see if I need to label this as junk mail?
So I was talking to this girl through Instagram— not like anything major but just like “oh you’re cute haha” and then I found out she’s 16 and immediately told her I can’t flirt with her anymore but now I feel awful for even thinking like that before I knew :( I feel like a predator or criminal
Do not work with Sam Greenblatt or The Center for Behavioral Psychotherapy. Horrible, horrible experience.
do not know if it is rocd anymore, or if I do not love my partner
Hey. I’m new here and I’m worried bc I just remembered (I’m female btw) when I was in junior year of high school. I saw this girl and thought that she was pretty but I don’t remember clearly if I had feelings or not but I remember feeling weird or something. I’m scared that means I’m bi. Please help. I don’t want to be bi or with a female. I always imagined being with a man but ever since these thoughts came up. It’s starting to feel like I wouldn’t mind. In the beginning I was so disgusted with the thought and felt weird even thinking about it. I don’t want to date a women or anything with them and I can’t tell if this is still false attraction.
I really don’t think i have rocd anymore but i need to talk to someone who can help me :(
Hello, this problem of the toc is affecting a lot and it despairs a lot that even makes me want to pull my hair I would like this anxiety to end but maybe my actions will end it is a mind that catches you as if it were someone who talks to you and that disturbs you but not It is someone, you are yourself, you had this disease since I was 10 years old and now I am 18, first it started with the footsteps if there was a line on the ground I did not have to step if I stepped I had the mind that something bad could happen to me so I went back and advanced on the floor line so that nothing happens so it was until later it started as a custom then I started singing and then I did it three times so that nothing happens so it was increasing to 7 and what was the fear because I do not remember very well but it was what I lost my parents or being gay or being beheaded or having my 5 year old cousin raped or my relatives being murdered that was how my mind disturbed me but it was easy to ignore it but after passing time it was not so easy it started me To start at age 11 was where I started to wash but I don't know when was the first time I started to wash a lot I think I did it when I was 7 and 8 every time I touched something I washed three times but at age 11 I washed hands was 3 minutes I think and the lines of the footprints followed the thoughts were worse that I could kill my cat and I be gay and that a serial killer kills a relative or that I get cancer or that they run over or that a tarantula this in my bed or on the wall, floor or ceiling like this and the song continued but it decreased a little it was because if not twice my family would be killed by a murderer and I no longer paid attention to him and the worst comes, something that is worse than to dominate is a tingling that I don't know what disease the tingling is that I have had since 6 years old I started at school I scratched myself and that tingling came out I masturbated at 6 years old and I pornography at 11 years old for that tingling of the penis I have no pain I urinate well and I don't have any injuries, I just feel that tingling and n the glans of the penis I feel it more a tickle I feel it only takes off masturbating but it lasts 20 minutes later it comes back and I have to feel three tingles or tickles to calm me down and if that tickle comes with my mind saying you are gay and with the tickling then I will be gay and I have to make another tickle and saying in my mind I am not gay both at the same time tickling and in my mind I am not gay and before I said it with my mouth but that was at the beginning of 11 years at the end I did not do it I was ashamed I did with my mind so far it continues with the tickling at 18 and at 12 it was the same only that the tingling and hand washing at thirteen it was the same at 14 it was disgusting to speak mouth to mouth And then at 15 I don't make eye contact and it sucked to talk word of mouth with people and handwashed it was 2 minutes and And that bothered at 16 the eye contact really bothered at first at 14 I was ashamed to make contact but then it was customary and I don't know why the truth and the tingling made my mind say something bad and tingling too and I had to say something good along with the tingling to calm me down and that's how it happens and at 17 talking word to mouth it no longer disgusted me but if I was disgusted that a dog kisses me and eye contact kept not doing much truth but sometimes when I want demosya Demonstrate that if I make eye contact if I do If I do and at 18 it's something I don't make eye contact but also not extremely if I do little and talk word of mouth if you give me. A little disgust, but I don't wash when I speak mouth. On the palate only a few times and the tingling of the penis is the one that disturbs me the most is like an orgasm but the son of the orgasm mini-orgasm in the penis every time he squeezed it slowly or I move it with my abdomen and the thoughts I had the last few years was that God will punish me for my mind saying I am God but I am a A normal person like all that tells me this, well I'll say what I thought I'm a person who loves God like all that what I think every time my mind says I'm God but I'm not and that your mom will die like your friend's mom and that disturbs me and that they'll up and that I'll rape or get run over or you stay alone in the world those things and also sex me disturb that my uncle will have sex with me or that. The girl I like will be raped by that which disturbs po Tingling
Hello, this problem of the toc is affecting a lot and it despairs a lot that even makes me want to pull my hair I would like this anxiety to end but maybe my actions will end it is a mind that catches you as if it were someone who talks to you and that disturbs you but not It is someone, you are yourself, you had this disease since I was 10 years old and now I am 18, first it started with the footsteps if there was a line on the ground I did not have to step if I stepped I had the mind that something bad could happen to me so I went back and advanced on the floor line so that nothing happens so it was until later it started as a custom then I started singing and then I did it three times so that nothing happens so it was increasing to 7 and what was the fear because I do not remember very well but it was what I lost my parents or being gay or being beheaded or having my 5 year old cousin raped or my relatives being murdered that was how my mind disturbed me but it was easy to ignore it but after passing time it was not so easy it started me To start at age 11 was where I started to wash but I don't know when was the first time I started to wash a lot I think I did it when I was 7 and 8 every time I touched something I washed three times but at age 11 I washed hands was 3 minutes I think and the lines of the footprints followed the thoughts were worse that I could kill my cat and I be gay and that a serial killer kills a relative or that I get cancer or that they run over or that a tarantula this in my bed or on the wall, floor or ceiling like this and the song continued but it decreased a little it was because if not twice my family would be killed by a murderer and I no longer paid attention to him and the worst comes, something that is worse than to dominate is a tingling that I don't know what disease the tingling is that I have had since 6 years old I started at school I scratched myself and that tingling came out I masturbated at 6 years old and I pornography at 11 years old for that tingling of the penis I have no pain I urinate well and I don't have any injuries, I just feel that tingling and n the glans of the penis I feel it more a tickle I feel it only takes off masturbating but it lasts 20 minutes later it comes back and I have to feel three tingles or tickles to calm me down and if that tickle comes with my mind saying you are gay and with the tickling then I will be gay and I have to make another tickle and saying in my mind I am not gay both at the same time tickling and in my mind I am not gay and before I said it with my mouth but that was at the beginning of 11 years at the end I did not do it I was ashamed I did with my mind so far it continues with the tickling at 18 and at 12 it was the same only that the tingling and hand washing at thirteen it was the same at 14 it was disgusting to speak mouth to mouth
Can shame from ocd cause you to self harm? I’ve never really heard anyone talk about this.
One time my college professor who has a masters I believe in psychology said "if you are sitting in this classroom, you do not have OCD" which makes me anxious that I don't because I was in there experiencing symptoms of OCD.
(Don’t read if you’re stressed out or upset, controversial opinion below) I have serious anxiety about saying something that will make others upset or angry. As an unhealthy coping mechanism for this anxiety, I obsessively google for controversial opinions I agree with, often for many hours on end. As part of NOCD therapy, I am supposed to share a controversial/potentially objectionable opinion with someone so I can get used to feeling the anxiety without responding with the unhealthy behavior (by resisting the behavior, over time the anxiety will decrease). And the NOCD app is a low-stakes place to do it; my therapist actually said I should do posts on here twice a day. So I’ll say something: I cannot believe that a good-hearted and sane person, who is aware about all the horrible stuff Trump has done and just what an utter disaster he is, could eagerly/enthusiastically support him (although I could understand someone who knows all this but reluctantly supports him as a perceived lesser of two evils, he’s bombed fewer people etc). However, I can easily believe that a good-hearted and sane person, who is NOT aware about all the horrible stuff Trump is done, because they exclusively consume pro-Trump media that ignores or misrepresents this stuff, could enthusiastically support him- and I think this is the majority of Trump supporters. I see all the time the stupid shit going on and think that if I didn’t know about all of Trump’s evil and criminal actions, I might support him too. Anyway, it’s hard for the left to make a solid case of superiority here, their nominee is a walking corpse and despite their virtue-signaling and identity politics crap Biden and Kamala have each done more to destroy the lives of black people (through mass incarceration and the war on drugs, which they both spearheaded) than Trump has. I very reluctantly voted for Biden and Harris last Thursday- I think they will be meaningfully less bad (still unacceptably terrible, but a lot less bad) on the environment (about which Trump is by far the worst president in history, which is really saying something) and health care and maybe the coronavirus response. But the truth is the American party keep getting screwed over by this impenetrable plutocratic duopoly of very similar politicians. The back-and-forth arguments are so dumb- “Trump is a pervert rapist!” “no Biden is!” “Biden is senile!” “No Trump is!” Instead why don’t we ask why in a country of 330 million, we’re being forced to choose between two clearly senile (although Biden might be worse), hopelessly corrupt, plausibly rapists to be the single most powerful person in the world and bring in a bunch of appointees to control the country and shape (destroy) our lives? What kind of choice is this? Biden’s daughter and Trump’s granddaughter go to the same rich people club or vacation spot or whatever, they’ve taken pictures together. Trump and the Clintons were both pals with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. “It’s all one big club and you ain’t in it!”
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