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Hey guys--

I'm kind of feeling scared right now. I mean the scary thoughts are feeling stronger more then usual. I've been telling myself its cuz I have my period and I know i am much more sensitive during this time, but then I watched a movie where they showed a girl's parts kinda and I get scared and those sexual thoughts started coming in again. Should I just say, Okay...I can see how anxious and scared I feel right now. It's okay. This is just part of my anxiety and I am are how much more sensitive I am feeling today. Okay, these thoughts are a possibility but it is unlikely to happen and I know myself well enough to know they are only thoughts.

Help?

Noelle, check out this website:
<A HREF="http://understanding_ocd.tripod.com/ocd_obsessions.html" TARGET=_blank>http://understanding_ocd.tripod.com/ocd_obsessions.html</A>
it may help. I found it interesting and informative. I hope it helps, sweetie. Hang in there. You're going to be ok. as long as you have the desire and the will. I am sure you have plenty of both.

Thanks for the article, Sarah Anne. When I was reading one part of the article that described the symptoms I was like, "Whoa that's me!"

Today was a fairly good day. I am still getting those thoughts but i realize when I look under neath that it all goes back to the one big obsession I have. Now i just need to work on dealing with them instead of feeling scared.

When you talk back to your scary thoughts, do you ever just feel like you're just saying words and it's not really helping? That's how I feel a lot of times. Today, I think the ones that bother me most is a sexual thought I had about a little girl I saw or a pretty girl I saw on tv. I notice like it says on the tapes, one single object can strike the thought. The one guy said wood and something as simple as a skirt can set it off. Should i go with it and label it as nothing more then an obsession?

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That's good Noelle. Repeat the same thing each time you feel concern.

another: "I am a good and worthy person. I can choose the thoughts I dwell on. There is no emergency-chill."

Does anyone else have disturbing sexual dreams? Mine have a recurrent theme. Usually something awful like a sexual event when family members are standing nearby. Or someone forcing themself on me. Can be man or woman. Even family members. And no this is not something that's happened in real life.

Thanks for the advice, Carolyn. I will keep working on it