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- Fri Apr 15, 2005 5:53 am
- Forum: Session 10 - How to Address Obsessive, Scary Thoughts
- Topic: Disturbing Sexual Thoughts!
- Replies: 83
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Hi, My therapist has said that she has dealt with many patients with OCD (some the pure obsessional kind) and these type of thoughts are typical of the condition. Just as some will have obsessive blasphemous thoughts, some may have obsessive thoughts over cleanliness/germs, some will obsess over sex...
- Thu Apr 14, 2005 6:03 am
- Forum: Session 10 - How to Address Obsessive, Scary Thoughts
- Topic: Disturbing Sexual Thoughts!
- Replies: 83
- Views: 56537
Hi, Yes, I'm in agreement that they are just thoughts. But it's so damn hard to stop them from being there! Everytime I try not to think about it, I feel like I am putting it away b/c I don't want to acknowledge a certain part of me! Like I am ignoring a very important issue. Then the thoughts get w...
- Tue Apr 12, 2005 9:21 am
- Forum: Session 10 - How to Address Obsessive, Scary Thoughts
- Topic: Disturbing Sexual Thoughts!
- Replies: 83
- Views: 56537
Hi All, Has anyone who has dealt with scary thoughts of this nature gotten over them? Do these thoughts ever feel so real that you get overcome with fear and confusion? I try to ignore these thoughts as they don't fit who I am or what I want out of life, but sometimes they come on so strong, I don't...
- Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:30 pm
- Forum: Session 11 - Medication and Alcohol
- Topic: Lexapro Questions, (newbie)?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 10609
- Fri Apr 08, 2005 12:09 pm
- Forum: Session 10 - How to Address Obsessive, Scary Thoughts
- Topic: Disturbing Sexual Thoughts!
- Replies: 83
- Views: 56537
- Fri Apr 01, 2005 12:04 pm
- Forum: Session 10 - How to Address Obsessive, Scary Thoughts
- Topic: Disturbing Sexual Thoughts!
- Replies: 83
- Views: 56537
Hi All!! :) Please read this article that I've attached below. I have found this information on the following website: ocdonline.com. Very interesting material! Lesbians Everywhere: A gay spiker confronts her pure-O theme about getting an answer to her sexual orientation question! This particular ta...
- Thu Mar 31, 2005 8:30 am
- Forum: Session 10 - How to Address Obsessive, Scary Thoughts
- Topic: Disturbing Sexual Thoughts!
- Replies: 83
- Views: 56537
Hi All, Thanks chris tt! I agree with you. To return the favor and offer you guys some comfort, I'd like to share with you what my therapist had told me the other night. She said often times obsessive thoughts happen when we are worried or scared about something else, and we put these concerns into ...
- Fri Mar 25, 2005 11:51 am
- Forum: Session 10 - How to Address Obsessive, Scary Thoughts
- Topic: Disturbing Sexual Thoughts!
- Replies: 83
- Views: 56537
Hi Hope321!! Thank you for your honesty and thank you to all!! It has been helpful for me to vent to those who understand exactly what I have been going through. The therpaist that I have been seeing has diagnosed me as Obsessive Compulsive. I do not have compulsions, such as hand-washing, etc. but ...
- Sun Mar 13, 2005 9:04 am
- Forum: Session 10 - How to Address Obsessive, Scary Thoughts
- Topic: Disturbing Sexual Thoughts!
- Replies: 83
- Views: 56537
Thank you to all. I've just started this attacking anxiety program, have begun seeing a therapist, and have joined a gym. Little by slowly my disturbing thoughts are dissipating and losing their importance. When these thoughts began a few months ago, they were the focal point of my life, and caused ...
- Sat Mar 12, 2005 8:10 am
- Forum: Session 10 - How to Address Obsessive, Scary Thoughts
- Topic: Disturbing Sexual Thoughts!
- Replies: 83
- Views: 56537
Thank you all!! Deb45 - this has started to happen to me as well! At the age of 22, and with a boyfriend of 4 years, and having been attracted to men all my life, I've started the same obsessive questioning of my sexuality. But it's not a normal line of questioning. As it's more a fear that I will l...