It is important to emphasize that the intrusive thoughts people with P-OCD experience revolve around being afraid of being a pedophile or doing something that could characterize them as a pedophile, but the experience is entirely separate from actual pedophilia. They feel terrifying and all-consuming, and they won’t leave a person’s mind until they have found temporary relief, either internally or externally, to dismiss these concerns. It must mean I’m a pedophile.”) For people with P-OCD, these concerns and fears feel impossible to let go of.
They are either excessively afraid of acting like a pedophile (“What if I accidently touch this child in an inappropriate way when I’m alone with them?”) or they are concerned that their thoughts will make them a pedophile (“I can’t believe I found a teenager attractive. People with P-OCD generally experience this disorder in two ways. The fact that the obsession is centered on something so important to the individual makes the doubting thoughts all the more anxiety-provoking (e.g., “How can I be absolutely sure I won’t hurt a child?”). OCD tends to fixate on what is most important to the individual, and when children’s well-being and safety is one of a person’s core values, OCD will often latch on and cause a person to have obsessions and compulsions centered around this value. For someone with P-OCD, the idea of potentially harming a child is terrifying, and this fear causes them to engage in compulsive behavior aimed at alleviating this fear (e.g., excessive online research about what makes someone a pedophile). A person with P-OCD may be obsessively concerned with proving to themselves they are not a pedophile. Pedophilia OCD (P-OCD) is a subtype of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) characterized by obsessive thoughts, images, and impulses and compulsive behaviors around unwanted sexual thoughts about children.
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