r/AskAnOCDTherapist

for pure o, he said you can't push thoughts out your head. that is honestly a bunch of baloney. sometimes that happens automatically by your own brain. i don't see or feel anything wrong with pushing them away as long as you did not do the compulsion which is ruminate. if you didn't ruminate, your good despite whatever else you did.

he say things about looking at the thoughts, pushing them away and what not. i know it's not good to suppress thoughts, but a small knock is fine. i see nothing wrong with bracing yourself either. that is not a compulsion, you are not actively trying to solve the obsession. An example of something similar is hugging yourself if it helps you feel better. if the hugging itself or the bracing itself is to make the actual obsession go away, then no. not allowed at all. but if you're doing it for that reason. if you're not doing it to make it go away, you're helping yourself to not engage, that is a plus.

his article: https://drmichaeljgreenberg.com/how-to-stop-ruminating/

this is just a POCD rant:

I’m currently not in therapy for my POCD due to my work schedule and I just can’t find timing for it as well. And I think it’s so embarrassing going to therapy for POCD .. like talking about it with a therapist makes me so fucking scared .. like MEGA SCARED

My POCD has got so worse throughout the past 4 months .. like I think my brain chemistry has altered in a bad way or something .. like it makes me so sad

I’m 24 years old and it’s like .. fuck man .. :(

Sitting with the unknown is crazy as FUCK to me .. but the groinal responses (arousal non accordance) .. is killing me

Or what I hope is to be false arousal because sometimes it’s not just a groinal .. or just a “twitch” due to the intrusivity .. sometimes it’s a half erection or at worst .. a full on blown erection/arousal

Like I don’t even have as many intrusive thoughts anymore .. I get groinals when looking at a t33n .. and then I’ll get a .. you know .. and it’s so sudden ..

I’ll compulse after an hour AND IM BACK TO “NORMAL” again … wtf man

Sometimes even when I see a child, I’ll get these weird ass unwanted intrusive thoughts and sensations

Like yo wtf ?????

It’s throwing me the fuck off

Like sometimes it’s also an “impulsive false attraction” where it feels like “I want this” or “like this” like no the fuck I don’t

Like I was compulsing and came across a video of this t33n couple and it’s them kissing (just a peck) and I’m just flooded with unwanted intrusive thoughts and how “it should be me doing this” and “I want this” and just hyper focusing on the girl and I just had this mental sensation of anxiety and paranoia because it’s like “oh fuck here we go .. I might get a bad groinal .. or even worse ..”

Like is it typical for physical symptoms like groinal responses/arousal to get worse with OCD (POCD in particular)? Feels like my groinal responses use to be just tingles and now sometimes they feel like actual erections and normal arousal. Is this a common experience?

I’d do anything to just be a normal human being again