Is ERP therapy effective for my situation?
Basically what I'm dealing with is this problem where often when I notice people, online and offline, I'll get these creepy thoughts. Like, I'll imagine them wanting to get with me romantically or sexually. I'll even get these thoughts that they want to rape me sometimes. Even when I was in like elementary school. For a long time I kinda just ignored it, I didn't think it really was important and I thought it must be normal because there is nothing that would cause me to think like that out of the blue. But recently I dug up this repressed memory of my father raping me. I'm worried those thoughts are correlated to what happened with my father. Like, it messed up my head so now I see most people in a "they want me" kind of way. It's really been disturbing me.
From what I understand these thoughts are "normal" to an extent, but it happens with people I'm not even attracted to and/or don't even know.
I have tried something where every time I notice a thought like that I make a fist and rub my knuckles against my sternum. I thought I could use conditioning to get the thoughts away. But I don't think its working and my sternum is starting to bruise. So I did some research and heard about ERP. Does ERP sound like it would be effective for me?