News of Anxiety Disorders

Hello, really scared to post this but I need someone to calm me down.

Currently in my mid 20s, I have had different forms of OCD for most of my life. One of these is POCD.

This incident that is bothering me now happened many months ago. I don't know if this particular thing is OCD.

My family lives in an apartment building and we have many neighbours. One of the families are close to ...

Hey everyone! For starters I am a young adult female who has never had a serious relationship before. Ever since a few weeks ago I assumed I was straight. I had one instance in covid I thought I was gay (attributed this to just being lonely), then another a few months ago when I realized I was noticing and staring at boobs more. I didn’t attune this to being lesbian though, and just probs thought ...

I REALLY need help. I decided to look at pictures of men to try fantasizing while masturbating to test and I started feeling like I was aroused and it made me start feeling really sick and the worse I felt mentally the closer to orgasm I felt AND IT FELT GOOD AND LIKE I WANTED IT :(, but at the same time I felt more and more ...

Hello everyone,

I haven't posted on this board in a while. I'm a 38 year old man that's suffered with OCD for most of my life. In May 2006, I started obsessing over my sexual orientation and if I was gay and in denial. Currently, my HOCD is a shell of its former self and I rarely obsess over my orientation. I will get the occasional spike, but it is miniscule compared to what I ...

I’m a 30 year old guy and I’ve been struggling with OCD for the past 20 years, and severely struggling with the pedophile OCD (POCD) theme for the past 7 years. I’ve been working with an OCD specialist, but last week something happened that is making me think that I really am a pedophile. I was watching a TV show and was triggered by a child actress because she had a pretty face and hair. ...

This has been happening for 3 years now i’m in my early 20s. Idk if I want to say everything but i’ll say what im like today. And the starting point.

I was at work and I was on break saw a tiktok of a senior talking to some 11 year olds. I started panicking I started looking at her butt, the person looked “cute”.

So now - I feel like it’s all repression. I ...

Hi.

I am a 21 year old male who has depression because of POCD that started 13 months ago. Due to my depression, very, very, very few things actually make me happy. One of those things is being apart of the fandom for my favorite game. This information sounds irrelevant right now, but will make more sense later on.

Because of POCD, I try to avoid media that have children or teenagers in them. I ...

Hello, I have never been to therapy but just wanted to share the methods I've come up with over the years for managing my anxiety. Maybe they can help someone.

My anxiety manifests in what I call "episodes". An episode usually lasts a number of weeks and always has a "focus" - a thought or worry that's actually causing the anxiety. This state of "being anxious" is so distinct to me and feels so different ...

about a while ago i joined a lolicon discord server, my implications where to investigate it and report it. to join i had to dm the owner of the server 10 loli images, i did do so by going to an art site that for some reason allows it and then i downloaded the first 10 loli photos i saw and dmed it, i then got into the server and i looked around for a ...

I'm tired, about what happened in my last post the doubt came back, I've been trying for almost 1 week and 5 days to anakize this and be sure what really happened. You have no idea how bad I feel, I feel a knot in my chest and I just want to disappear. I regret coming here is that I have nowhere to go, I can't lean on family because if they knew what I ...