[IchbinkeinTeufel]

Potentially triggering, topic Self-Harm (light stuff), and topic ROCD.

It also ties into OCD (Relationship OCD) but I just got a big surge of anxiety when seeing my significant other's legs. She has quite a lot of scars on her legs and arms. It's difficult to see. It doesn't make me feel too comfortable. I'm anxious now, which is not good as it's almost 1am.

I'm trying not to let her know that it triggered me, because I don't want her to feel like crap. It's not her fault. I'm so relieved that she stopped SH years ago, as am I that I did years ago as well, but the scars are none--the-less difficult to see. I figure that in time it'll be easier as my mind will adjust. It's a long distance thing, so there's that too. I've seen them a number of times before, but I guess my brain decided to go coocoo this time around.

I wish I were blind to them. Or I wish I could see them and just not care. But I'm not, and I do. It's not like I haven't seen scars before, my previous partner had a lot of scars as well, some of them were pretty deep.

Was just wondering if anyone else here goes through or has gone through this, and whether you communicated it, how if you did, and just do you have any ideas as to how I can lesson the anxiety about this particularly thing? Long shot, I know. x_x