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Hello, Everyone. My situation got worse when I got to know about The Secret book by Rhonda Bryne. The book mentions that positive thinking attracts positive things in life and negative attracts negative. Every OCD mind is filled with negative thoughts. It means that the negative thoughts will become true because we are keep thinking about them.

Anyone know of a good erp for sensorimotor ocd?

I was doing ERP on my own last night and I ended up having a full blown anxiety attack for about an hour because of it; sweating, heart racing couldn’t concentrate on what my friends were saying. Anyone else ever go through this?

My sleeping pattern so far Monday- 2:00am Tuesday 6:00am Wednesday 3:am Thursday it’s now 4:15am and still awake ? I just want /NEED to sleep ??

any experiences w zoloft?

So someone posted the other day about OCD being a spiritual attack. I couldn’t agree more and I would love to dive deeper into this topic. Please comment your thoughts on this theory:

Luvox is amazing

What helped you seek OCD treatment? It's been over a year and half since extensive online research helped me conclude that it's very likely I have moderate/severe OCD. Despite the fact that it severally impacts my daily life, I'm struggling with reaching out for professional help. Held back by mounting fear, anxiety, and doubt I'm having a very difficult time getting help. So I'm just wondering what helped others take that first and speak to a professional.

Anyone a born again Christian and struggle with pure O /scrupe?

The thing that scares me most is when I’m having a great time playing with my kids and I randomly think about killing them. Not specifics but just the idea. Then I have anxiety for hours about it and scare myself. “What if I did?” “Will my mind ever snap and I do it?” “Am I a danger? Should I leave?” For the longest time I was scared to talk about these thoughts. I’m glad I found a safe space that will truly understand that that is all they are - thoughts. I hope to make new friends so that we can help each other during these “episodes” and bring each other back to “reality”.

Why someone being a pedo doesn’t effect me anymore like I think it’s not the worst thing in the world there’s a lot worse going on why am I thinking this n feeling it all too real it is the worst thing in the world but I’m finding it hard to belief I can’t live like this anymore

Does anyone else use weed either legally medically or self medicate. I want to know what your experience has been. I have smoked for about 5 years everyday multiple times a day and I have stopped self harming but I don’t know if it’s actually had benefits or not. Maybe I should just stop smoking lol. Am also on 150 mg of Effexor and I’m not sure if that has truly helped

Seeking advice: When an obsession comes up and you are trying to resist doing compulsions and before long you’re ruminating and then another obsession appears even before you get to resolve the first obsession. So then obsessions pile up. How do you deal with that?

The day I get officially diagnosed, I almost can’t WAIT to let certain people know and post things about it and raise awareness for it etc. I’m excited to explore OCD. But I feel like I’m just doing this for attention / for pity and sympathy. It’s bad, and I know that, but I’ve always loved it. And this often makes me think that I don’t have OCD, I’m just telling myself I do so I can be unique and special. Personally, I found out about OCD through reading an article about a harm ocd sufferer and then telling myself that I too wanted to kill my family. It was distressing. However I can identify traces of OCD prior to that. I frantically worried that I had HIV (health) & I frantically worried that life was all just a simulation (existential). I also suffered with confessions and the need to tell people the bad things I’d done. But I still wonder if I really am just putting it on, because this excitement to tell people isn’t exactly conventional. Nobody WANTS OCD, so why do I?

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Need help. I feel like I acted on my Intrusive Thoughts. I’ve been doing great with my recovery from POCD. I’ve been accepting the thoughts, and been on medicine and I’ve had thoughts, but have been able to brush them off. I’ve also been forcing myself to be around the children that are my triggers. I work in child care. But today, a kid brought in a valentines sticker book. He brought one of the stickers over to me and told me it said “you are so sexy” I took it from him, and one of the girls I was with asked what it said. I said it was inappropriate. My OCD then told me to let her read it. And I just handed it to her. And now my mind is telling me I did it because I’m a terrible child predator, and I keep asking myself why I did it, and telling myself I’m a bar person. I feel like I’m 10 step backwards.

When practising exposure with HOCD, is it normal to experience groinal response or does this mean I’m enjoying it?

I would just like to say that I am doing so much better than 5 months ago. And that in itself is a blessing. Yes I can still get horrible images and thoughts in my mind. Not as many as before, and they dont hold as much power anymore. What I'm struggling with is how to attack my irrational beliefs and understand the uncertainty behind a thing such as POCD. Any advice on people suffering from this?? Today I tried telling myself, "I'll never know if I am attracted to this kid or not, and that's okay." But really it's still bugging me.

Anyone with hiv ocd that recovered and can help

is it possible for HOCD to turn u gay/ bi. i don’t even know anymore. i feel like it’s just not OCD and i’m just in denial because i’m scared of what people would think of me if i came out as bi. i hate this so much. these thoughts are making me so anxious. it’s like i have these thoughts and then later i look back and see all of the anxiety it was giving me. is this OCD? pls help