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Feeling Newly Awful (POCD, I Hope...)

Postby WhyDoIExist » Sun Feb 02, 2020 4:29 am

Kept having intrusive images of children flash in my mind. Not sexual images, mind you, but it was still distressing.
So I made a bad decision: I did my rumination routine, and made myself conjure the images on purpose to try and confront them. Now I'm scared I'm attracted to the children I imagined...

I'm very scared and depressed, and I don't know what to do... I want to believe I'm not a P, but...
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Re: Feeling Newly Awful (POCD, I Hope...)

Postby lynx1616 » Sun Feb 02, 2020 4:34 am

Relax, it is POCD believe me because I know and from what you describe it fits 100%.
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Re: Feeling Newly Awful (POCD, I Hope...)

Postby Tyler » Tue Feb 04, 2020 6:13 am

You're not a pedophile. I agree with what Lynx said, this is classic POCD.
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