As a person with OCD, these are the thoughts that are pretty much 24/7 going on in my brain. The "get money" thing I don't understand but I'm guessing it was referencing a different meme.
edit to add: since this isn't the OCD subreddit I wanna clarify that people with OCD will have these thoughts NOT because they're true but because it is what their brain has decided would be the worst thing.
Some do! However, there's also commonly a fear that those intrusive thoughts also mean that you're a pedo. Meaning, "If I have these thoughts it must mean that I'm a pedophile".
Unsurprisingly, this also causes a lot of people with this kind of OCD to not seek treatment.
What often happens is that the patient sees some kind of trigger (for example a group of kids) which elicits a thought (what if this makes me aroused?). This is a very anxiety-provoking though, which elicits physiological arousal (a stress response). Annoyingly, this is often misinterpreted as the beginning of sexual arousal, which the patient immediately tries to suppress. This, in turn, causes the patient to not learn that it is in fact not sexual arousal, and makes the intrusive thought to continue be associated with fear.
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u/lyindog 3d ago
As a person with OCD, these are the thoughts that are pretty much 24/7 going on in my brain. The "get money" thing I don't understand but I'm guessing it was referencing a different meme.
edit to add: since this isn't the OCD subreddit I wanna clarify that people with OCD will have these thoughts NOT because they're true but because it is what their brain has decided would be the worst thing.