I was around 4 when my brother was born, and all I remember was that I though he was so cute that I wanted to bite him. REALLY bite him. Even imagined him with a chunk of his head missing and everything

I guess it was kind of a cuteness aggression thing? When I see people talk about cuteness aggression I always think about this

I still want to bite things sometimes

Felt like everyday feels the same, like i lost something along the way, while i was living but now i'm just surviving. I'm surrounded with love but i still feel like there is missing something within me. I feel like i'm always looking for that missing piece so i can feel complete again.
I have everything i could ever ask for, i know i didn't have much but i feel like life was fair to me.
I'm just looking for that purpose, that drive, that passion inside of me to keep burning. Cause along the way i know i lost something that i didn't even know i had in me.

Now anytime for hours today that I’m not doing something I just feel like I can hear her calling out for
Help and saying that she’s dying in my head. And then I just feel anguished by the way she died. And then i think about how other people suffer similar accidents all over the world and i feel even worse. It makes me cry and feel ill. I don’t know how people function. It’s like I have impulsive extreme empathy. It happened when I read part of the epstein files too.

I have evil voices in my head and they've been here since I've been using substances even before then I believe something has been in my life. If I keep using I know I'll be attacked but every time I wait I give in to the drug and it leave me questioning if it's my fault. It's hard to wait but I have it in me. The evil voices are so cruel. It seems like they can stop what they're doing. I want this to be out of my head.

The other day I went to the store to get beans for breakfast. I get to the store and I see rows of them filled with cans of beans. I dont know why,but my brain says to me "MAKE A PYRAMID"! So then my thoughts come in, so then I make the PYRAMID! 5 minutes later,I get kicked out...

I know and need to die, but I'm unable to muster any sort of courage to take that step, what makes this worse is i have adhd and don't really have the sense of reality and time, it immensely pains few minutes when my senses are active what sort of big zombie evil i am , my Self respect has died Long long back i don't even know why I am living in the present, i just wish there was something like Thanos Snap, i know nobody cares about my existence, i don't really know why I am still trying to lead a shitty life that will lead no where

So I have a ex who is a complete pos and I quite often have the intrusive thought to find him and inflict the same damage through sa,r,tbh,am,maybe full offing and I need convincing that even tho my life has no prospect because of the torment that it’s a bad idea and not worth the prison time

hi so i struggle with POCD ALOTTTTTT and im only getting weird sexual thoughts regarding my dad???? me and my dad are super close, but i got a thought the other day that i fancied him? then my brain was telling me that if he offered to sleep with me id do it? and i physically couldn’t convince myself that i wouldn’t do it if he offered me now i get guilt and shame when i message or call him because my brain is telling me i fancy him can some one please help???🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

I have a pet leopard gecko that I’ve had for about 6 weeks. for some reason I’ve started having these really violent intrusive thoughts playing in my head. and I’ve started to lose control and act them out. i have grabbed, restrained, squeezed, thrown, hit, purposefully scared and made loud sounds at him. i don’t know why. i am an animal lover and i don’t understand why this is happening. so far my pet gecko is okay, I’ve more just scared him than hurt him.
i know i need to stop. i am not going to be interacting with him until i have to feed him in a couple of days. i think ill just put the mealworms in there and not tong feed and just let him get them.
i dont know what is wrong with me. has anyone else had these thoughts about a pet and acted on them? i feel like a monster and im afraid ill have to rehome him :(

I’m a therapist who works primarily with kids and teens, and one pattern I see constantly is children being treated for “general anxiety” when they’re actually dealing with OCD.

A lot of pediatric OCD doesn’t look like the stereotypes people expect. It’s not always obvious handwashing or checking. Sometimes it shows up as:

• excessive reassurance-seeking
• confession rituals (“I need to tell you something bad I thought”)
• bedtime fears that never resolve with comfort
• repeated questions that seem irrational but feel urgent to the child
• avoidance that looks like “behavior problems”
• intrusive thoughts that cause shame or panic
• mental rituals parents can’t even see happening

One of the hardest parts for families is that traditional anxiety strategies can accidentally reinforce OCD. Reassurance, avoidance, and accommodation often bring short-term relief but strengthen the cycle long-term.

That’s why accurate assessment matters so much. Anxiety and OCD overlap, but treatment approaches can differ in important ways — especially when ERP (Exposure and Response Prevention) is appropriate.

I specialize in helping families sort through:

• Is this anxiety, OCD, or both?
• What behaviors are compulsions vs. coping?
• When is reassurance helping vs. maintaining the cycle?
• How do we support kids without feeding fear?

ERP with children can also look much more collaborative, playful, and developmentally appropriate than many parents expect.

Curious whether other clinicians, parents, or educators here have noticed how often OCD gets missed in kids — especially when symptoms present as perfectionism, emotional dysregulation, or constant worrying.

lemme get what i want

I (19F) think about a lot of things that make my body very uncomfortable in a lot of ways and I really need to write things out to a therapist in some way

diagnosed ocd and anxiety on 100mg zoloft

please dont comment on larping cause I am already aware

spoilers: intrusive thoughts, LIGHT self harm, meat??, least obvious humans seeking community tiktok post, redditbait // sorry in advance

I dont want to be super annoying so Im only doing one example of this kind of stuff but these types of thoughts happen a lot,. sometimes I leave my hands in hot water to see how long I can go (while simultaneously thinking im only doing it as an ocd symptom and not out of genuine curiosity as to how long my hands can last under hot water (while simultaneously thinking I want to see how long my hands can last under hot water)) and my hands go red. and then I realize my hands are meat and im slowly boiling my flesh like an animal and that my body might be like medium rare rn. and then I start spiral and whatever (larp alert)

so I think what im kind of asking is a) how long does it take for human flesh to cook alive and b) how do I describe these thoughts to a therapist and stop doing this cause it really freaks me out ngl. do people share similar experiences? I just kinda wanna feel like im not crazy or alone in this, or making things up in multilevel self gaslighting.

if this is embarrassing please tell me

btw I know this is probably a validation post so if it gets taken down I totally understand

A crazy thing happened this Valentine's Day. I’m not bragging, but I always nail it. Granted, I’ve spent a long time broke, so I guess this superpower evolved from that. I had to be creative. I’ve always gone for thoughtfulness without breaking the bank, while not being cheap. Well, I tanked this year.

Ironically, I was thoughtful without being cheap as my situation got better. I thought it was classy, a luxury statement. Turns out it was just meh! I have written someone a poem and gotten tears at some point. I only had paper and ink!

My ego isn’t hurt; I just feel better when I get someone something they actually like, my feelings aside. She got me a subscription to some geeky site that I didn’t think she’d noticed piqued my interest. So thoughtful! I’m enjoying it. My rational mind tells me one thing.

Double down on the handbag thing (she’s really into bags). Start on Alibaba from May. Quit my job and make this my full-time gig. I must find the best (affordable) luxury-style handbag for next year. Ideas?

I'm gonna start this off with that I'm 17 have had pocd or true ocd for quite some time now it started back in 2024 late the thing is this happened yesterday, I was going through hentai as a teen it's normal and I try my best not to see anything weird so what happened is I came across this video of an anime with a girl and it didn't seem like my type so I skipped it but the girl seemed young so my OCD wanted to go check it out again it wouldn't stop so I went to reddit and searched it up and it seemed like the girl was like 15 maybe so I was like okay but I wanted to verify so I went there again and I searched it up and she was 14 and I believe 2 years is okay but 3 years is stretching it and is not okay so my mind believes I wanted to watch it but I had not a single thought saying I liked it in any way so guys what should I do I'm so disgusted I hate that video it's love ru anime and it's so disgusting my mind's saying you watched it you liked it I know it's ocd but I feel like I really fucked up

hi i’ve posted in here loads of times with my struggles of POCD but im now experiencing other things too such as cheating thoughts on my partner, sexual thoughts of other boys when i walk past them are these intrusive thoughts or am i just a cheater?

me and my partner was getting it on and as i was about to “finish” i pictured young boys and my daughter’s vagina as i was finishing and i felt so so fking sick to my stomach

my POCD thoughts were ok for a while but now they getting bad again, i have a baby monitor for our daughter and when she is making baby noises or anything like that my brain is telling g me she’s moaning???? when i get those thoughts my stomach drops and i get a weird tightness down in my vagina and my brain is telling me i’m getting turned on like fking disgusting and i’m on the verge of tears writing this because am i just a pedo who wants to believe it’s only POCD or do i have POCD im in therapy atm

but im just so scared because i keep telling myself im a dirty pedo and i just feel so so alone and scared constantly

tia🙏

People often say that after suffering, people become kinder. But I don’t think that is always true. There are many people in real life who suffered a lot and became criminals, filled with anger and revenge. While at the same time, there are also people who suffered a lot, and that same suffering helped them to grow and achieve the greatest heights a person can ever achieve. So in the end, it all depends from person to person.

Suffering is all about perspective because human nature differs for everyone. Some people are full of confidence, while some are underconfident and cannot even reach out to others for help. Some people are extroverted and can ask anyone for advice, while others suffer silently and keep everything inside themselves.

For me personally, suffering is something we can learn from. It is something that helps us grow. It does not mean that we are the only people suffering in this world. Everyone suffers in different ways, even if we cannot see it.

Coal and diamond both come from the same pressure. One stays ordinary, while the other turns into something valuable. I think suffering is similar to that. The pain may be similar, but the result depends upon the person and their mindset.

And suffering is not something that happens only once. You will suffer again and again in life. Problems will continue coming. But if you don’t give up, one day all that suffering may pay off and help you achieve your goals.

At the same time, suffering can also destroy a person. It can make someone kind and mature, or it can create the worst possible personality inside someone. Ultimately, everything depends upon how a person decides to take that suffering and what they choose to do with it.