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Originally Posted by Pup
I need help.
OCD is very severe right now in regards to intrusive, obsessive, unacceptable, distressing thoughts.
One particular thought/image that has been very persistent and distressing is about a close friend of mine.
I keep getting thoughts that he is...
a...
pedophile.
sigh.
I keep getting them & they distress me & I try to ignore them & avoid them & distract myself, but it seems they're always there.
My close friend is NOT a pedophile.
But it distresses me thinking he is one, and getting bad thoughts revolving that, and images, and just....
URGH.
They're so obsessive, and so awful, and bad, and persistent, just...
It's distressing me and I keep thinking that it's me thinking this & that I need to punish myself & that I'm awful and bad for thinking this & that I'm just... sigh...
How do I cope with this?!
What can I do?!
HELP?
It's making me want to kill myself or do something bad to myself. I hate this. I'm such a bad person. I'm sorry.
  
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it may sound scary but I was reading a site one day to help my self with my OCD thoughts and it said I should laugh at them or agree with them and basicly brush them off. I often got bad images that me feel I might seually abuse my kids if they were naked for too long. I also got thought that I was a bad person when I kssed my person after he had just kissed one of our kids to me it felt like I was kissing my child in a boyfriend way even thoe I was really kissing my partner. When i started laughing at the images and thoughts or agreeing with them it did help. I got the courage to do it because it made sence to me.. when eve I did tell my partner I thought I was bad mum he's jokingly agree with then smile at me and hug and tell I was being silly and thoes images and thought were not has bad as they use to be. I decided it could not hurt to try it my self I felt bad to start with agreeing with my bad thoughts but over time they got better. I still get the thoughts but they are no where near as intence as they use to be.
You also have to remind your self of the truth but laugh at the faulse thought, it seems to have worked for me. laugh at how silly the thought is the science behide it has something to do with the chemical tag you brain puts on the image or thought if your anxious the brain tags it with anxiety chemical and recalls the image more and more when you get anxious when you laugh at it your brain tags it with different chemicals and it no longer gets recalled as often when you anxious you start to feel better about it. evently the strenght of the image or thought become less and less as it it starts to refiled under a new catorgry so to speck.