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- 5y ago
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Hi there! First of all, please know that if you truly are gay there is absolutely nothing wrong with you whatsoever. But based on what you’re saying it sounds like it’s an obsessive and intrusive thought. Try not to let ocd keep you from forming genuine relationships and meeting people. Remind yourself that you know who you are. That these questions are coming from being a person dealing with ocd. Just try to be confident in who you KNOW you are and not let those thoughts get the better of you. The more we entertain them, the more control they have. You are not lying to anyone, ocd is lying to you!
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- 5y ago
It kinda scared and tortured me the possibility that i might be gay.
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- 5y ago
Same here
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- 5y ago
Honestly it seems almost that you’re not scared about if you are gay. You are scared about not knowing who you are. It’s a terrifying thought, waking up one day questioning everything you’ve ever known about yourself. These thoughts are making you doubt your own identity. If you feel really scared right now try to stop and just breathe and gather yourself. Then try (even if it feels like you’re faking confidence) to tell yourself that you KNOW who you are.
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- 5y ago
@kooan yes, but here in my country its kinda hard a good therapist
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- 5y ago
Accepting uncertainty sucks, it’s really difficult... but it works.
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- 24w ago
The thoughts still exist. For the last couple months I’ve been able to say I don’t care and lean into the comfort of being uncertain. Im having a tough time with some things personally right now and guess what decides to show up… Anyways, I’ve been trying to get used to the fact that maybe I’m bisexual with a romantic preference for men (I’m married and love my husband) but when you start going through your compulsions it’s soooo easy for everything to blur out. To my knowledge I’ve never had a crush on a woman but I’ve most definitely watched same sex porn and have thought women are hot and beautiful, then come the thoughts about comp het and how I’ve never been an overly sexual person so that MUST mean something. Ugh idk, just looking for someone to chat with I guess!
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- 23w ago
Ok so I’m a 17 year old female, and I’ve always thought I was straight. But I just really want to know how you would know the difference between so-ocd and actually questioning your sexuality. I have nothing against the LGBTQ community (in fact I am very much a token straight friend, lol) but I saw a video about comp-het recently and it sort of felt like what I was experiencing. I don’t want to be gay, I want to be with men, I want to like men, I’ve always liked men, but now I’m questioning whether or not that’s real? Because people can be gay but not want to be right? I’m single and I always have been. I think women are gorgeous, but when I try to imagine actually having any sort of romantic or sexual relationship with a woman it feels wrong, at least most of the time it does? Sometimes I’m less sure, and I’ve never been particularly boy crazy. I’ve liked maybe 2 or 3 people in my life, (not to say I’ve never found other guys attractive, but it doesn’t seem to be as often as most people) I have no particular reason to be afraid of being gay, very supportive family, safe area ect, but I don’t want to be, does that mean this is ocd, I don’t know what’s going on every time I say I’m straight I feel like I’m lying, but that might just be because I think about it so much. The idea of being with a woman doesn’t feel like something I would want, but is that just because I don’t want to want it? People online say things with so much sureness, if you feel like this it means this. Ect.
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- 12w ago
I feel so sad, alone, scared and hopeless. Until two months ago there was not even the remote possibility of being anything other than heterosexual and now the idea that I could find out that I was lesbian or bisexual terrifies me to death. Everything was born from the fact that I didn't feel sexual desire towards my ex-boyfriend and I started to be afraid that it was because I was a lesbian... how can I be a lesbian or bisexual if everything was born from this? I would like to run away from myself and my head. I would really like to go back and go back to my life before. I can't take it anymore. I just want to live my life like before
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