Does anyone else have Pure O who can help me? I'm convinced I'm a paedo and it's killing me.
I keep looking at kids crotches . I have 2 kids of my own and love kids. This is so awful 😩😩😩😩😩
Xx
Oh dear that's not good! How long has this been happening for?
The Pure O has been around for years but the paedo aspect a few days . It's just awful. Loads of intrusive thoughts that I can't blank out.
Feel like crying xxx
The Pure O has been around for years but the paedo aspect a few days . It's just awful. Loads of intrusive thoughts that I can't blank out.
Feel like crying xxx
Listen love if you was you wouldn't be feeling anxious about it this is what anxiety dose i absolutely hate it I've had this thought I've also had others anxiety twits things in your head it's an horrible illness it's your anxiety making you look and think and feel these things x
Sorry, I hope it passes soon for you.
Hi Kim, My son had this condition in 2011. He's 24 now and studying at uni.
He had a terrible time with these disgusting intrusive thoughts, he was very ill and too frightened at first to tell anyone what he was enduring.
Long story short, he eventually diagnosed with pure O, had exposure/cbt therapy and prescribed citalopram which he believes is the only antdepressant that works for this condition.
He's never looked back, feels great and able to live and function normally.
Look to the future it get's better in time.
Hugs x
Wow thank you so much for sharing Brenda. I am on citalopram at the mo but waiting on CBT . Hopefully I will free myself just like your son.
Lots of lovexxx
Hi,
I've had this anxiety too whilst working as a kids instructor!!!
It is horrible, but passed fairly quickly. You just need to keep reinforcing the idea into your mind that it is just anxiety..... it is obviously just the anxiety tricking your mind. If it wasnt it wouldnt have just come on........you would have been having these thoughts since puberty. Everytime you get an instrusive thought- counter it with 'this is just anxiety'..... or a mantra that is powerfull enough to work for you. It will pass. Just imbed this new matra into your mind! make it stronger than the thoughts. Dont let them in........ just keep telling them to 'p*** off' always helps.
Remember, you have nothing to feal guilty for, there is nothing wrong with you.
This is just anxiety and it will pass.
You will Kim, this is just a bad phase, you'll look back at all this & be able to help others who suffer from these terrifying intrusive thoughts.
Let us know if you need any help
All the best x
Hi Kim, hope your having a good day. I'm sorry I made a mistake my son is in fact taking clomiprmine 50 mg, he takes this at night time which has the added benefit of helping him sleep.
Take care x
Thanks Brenda. I'll look into that. Xxxxxxxxxx
Hi Kim I know exactly what you are going through hun, having ocd is a horrible thing I sometimes feel like giving up, but don't because of my two children and partner. Don't give up! We will get rid of it eventually! X
I lived a very normal life for the past 6 years Donna with Pure O. (Until 8 weeks ago when I have a bad turn) We will get back to a good place. Get a great therapist and try ur hardest with CBT and the thoughts will die down. Keep getting therapy till it works hun.
Where do you stay? Xxxx
Tyne and wear Kim d, my thoughts are similar to yours and absolutely terrify me iv been crying today so fed up of them. Xx
OCD Thoughts are horrid, but they are just your OCD. You think something horrid, know its horrid, & it kicks off even more horris thoughts in a loop of horror, guilt, & disgust.
You're normal, you just have the obessional thought circle, its not you, its not your true thoughts, its like a self inflicted sick thought nightmare.
Hello, I like to share my experience pure-ocd and how I've coped with it, so it can be used to help others conquer their pure-ocd. What I've learned from my pure-ocd experience was that these thoughts are in fact intrusive and not thoughts that I would like to have, act on, or be a part of me. As soon as I realized and reasoned with myself that these thoughts were not at all the person that I wanted to be I was able to reassure myself not to worry and that these thoughts were no way thoughts of mine because I would never want to be that kind of person. The kind of person I am talking about is a judgmental, conceited, arrogant, or sexually immoral.
Constantly trying to counteract the intrusive thoughts with reasonable thinking of my own allowed me to eventually realize and be more confident in who I was and who I wanted to be. Now when I have an intrusive thought I just think to myself "We already been through this countless times, there's no way I would think something like that because I am not that kind of person nor do I want to become that kind of person". The 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous helped me achieve this sense of reassurance of myself through my return to sanity by a higher power and as well as thorough and fearless introspection (which means looking into one's self thoughts and emotions).
This has worked for me and I hope will help work for others who are suffering from pure-ocd. I used to have huge anxiety panics even talking with my family at home would resort to me using large amounts of alcohol to cope with the pure-ocd. I used the alcohol to drown my thoughts away but alcohol only worked for that one night then the next day I woke up depressed, hungover, and the intrusive thoughts still remained. The pure-ocd got so bad I even tried committing suicide through Tylenol overdose, which hurt so much that I am afraid to commit suicide ever again along with all the risky complications that could go wrong with a suicide attempt. I hope my experience can help others as well as help myself back to complete health, E-mail me if you have any questions or comments. I recovered form the comfort of my own home, but that was only because I was incapable of seeking treatment because of how bad my anxiety attacks would be in social situations, I hope sharing my experience helps reach out to others like me who can't attend group meetings for their pure-ocd.
Hi what's the best way to deal with intrusive thoughts would you say? Sometimes I get thoughts in the form of questions that I feel I need to answer, anything im unsure of causes anxiety and I feel I need to know the answer otherwise I'm scared it will never go away if I don't, I do this by googling or seeking reassurance.