i have been struggling with a very specific and uncomfortable sexual obsession for the past month cus it relates to real-life past mistakes and for that time ive experienced most of the ocd symptoms you could think of it was almost like a living hellscape in my mind but once i decided to stop attaching myself to those thoughts and take them less seriously my obsessions took a dramatic turn on an emotional level   what i did was think of an imaginary bin in which all of the inappropriateuseless thoughts would get in and accumulate over time anything that is ambiguously or outright sexual would get in no matter the subject images or thoughts that are uncomfortable or are thought of at an inappropriate time would get in as well although what makes this strategy most effective is the fact that i re-contextualize each one of my intrusive thoughts as just something that could be found on the side of deviant art or wattpad that is extremely erotic and frankly i find that shit to be hilarious i even found myself laughing at some of the thoughts because they remind me of the time when i found a well-illustrated nsfw comic with cute characters which made me laugh so hard at how ridiculously gratuitous it was so i guess its an excuse to drop those thoughts into the bin and not worry too much thinking about them