Living With Pure Obsessional OCD: What Happens When Your Thoughts Turn X-Rated

which hit HBO Max yesterday, 24-year-old Marnie is giving a speech at her parents’ anniversary party, and she’s failing spectacularly. Her hands are sweating; her initially gracious remarks are segueing into cringey jokes; her thoughts are becoming increasingly X-rated. At first, she imagines random guests making out, but she manages to soldier on. But then, she pictures her dad giving her childhood friend oral sex and completely looses it.

yet sufferers experience similarly persistent and often shame-inducing worries. They are tormented by unwanted thoughts or mental images about acts they consider to be particularly hideous, usually of a sexual, violent, or sacrilegious nature.could help to demystify and normalize this condition. As Marnie says in one of the show’s early episodes, having intrusive sexual thoughts can feel like living in a disturbing parallel universe: “It’s like, but I don’t see dead people, I see naked ones.

“[Writing about Pure OCD] never felt like a conscious decision, it was more like an unstoppable energy,” says Cartwright. “I knew that what I was going through was experienced by innumerable thousands of people in silence.”Courtesy of Rose CartwrightAlthough she is very happy with the outcome, she points out the show’s storyline is less explicit than her book. “There are no hints of pedophilic or violent intrusive thoughts,” she says.

In her 2013 essay, Cartwright wrote that on a random spring night when she was 15, the image of a naked child entered her mind and “the corners of [her] world folded in.” She tried to erase the images from her head, only to see them come back stronger. She then tried to understand the meaning of the thought, but it eluded her. “Am I a pedophile?” she wrote. “This was the big, pressing question of my adolescence...

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