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Is this my OCD too ???


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Hi everyone , I feel like I keep coming back here when I know I shouldn't because it's a compulsion However it really calms me when I get advice from people who are actually going through the Same. 

I have been going through this for a while and I really don't know if it's my OCD , this is really hard for me to type because I do feel ashamed of it , but recently I have found myself looking at peoples private parts and I just can't help it , I know this is horrible , and it used to bring me anxiety when I did and it only used to happen to an individual in my family however now it's generalized along onto anyone , today i was visiting my cousin and he hadn't seen me in a while due to lockdown as a three year old he was really excited , when he came to me he was smiling and saying hi , but the first thing I did was look down at his genitals ( I know this is disgusting) I didn't have a moment of anxiety or anything , I just said to myself what are you doing and then moved away , I'm now starting to think am I pedophile or just a bad human , this happened to me a lot , but it used to always bring me anxiety , however now it doesn't , I used to find myself battling off the thought that told me to look however now I don't , the first thing I end up doing is just looking in them places even without a thought. It's as if I have started to think it's okay to look at anyone's private parts including my own family , I don't know what's happening. 

I would really appreciate some help , thanks everyone and I will try my best to stop this compulsion of re assurance.

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What you have to remember is the problem is not what happened but how you have reacted to it and interpreted it - that is how OCD wins. Unfortunately because your OCD is about a certain theme it will do everything and anything to convince you. What you have to remember is that this is what OCD does best. It's a bully. I have had all sorts of intrusive thoughts down through the years and I find that once I successfully combat one theme it pops up with another.

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Thank you so much Kevsangel, yes my OCD definitely runs along a theme , Usually to so with something sexual or attractions to people who I'm not supposed to have an attraction to , I'm glad this is clarified as my OCD because I was begining to think that was becoming my OCD thoughts , and what you said about one theme leaving and another one popping up is also the same for me as I move on from one intrusive thought something else finds its way into my mind. I hope one day I will overcome my OCD. 

Thanks again ! ☺️

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