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- 3y
Yep, kind of like this "aha" moment, lightning bolt to the chest, stomach flip. It feels like something massive has suddenly dawned on you, like you've solved a complex puzzle. It's such an awful feeling because it illicits such a strong anxiety response.
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It really does, it’s so hard for it to not feel so incredibly real when this happens
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Is it necessary to have anxiety during those? Ive had far too many realisations like that, the first couple ones shocked me, I did have anxiety but nowadays they are so common to me, Id be walking out of my bathroom or driving and id have a set of thoughts and id Realize that im gay, no anxiety either
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- 3y
Hi milliemoo, I’ve had those before, especially during ERP. Sort of like a false memory, tough to distinguish from being real or not. I wonder if it’s like an OCD response to ERP, like a mini-back door spike it gives you in the hopes you might stop doing that ERP and feed it more doubt….or maybe I’m giving the OCD bully too much credit.
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- 25w
it feels like i accepted being gay and thats part of who i am but i still feel that tension and fake attraction whenever i see a man and i feel like i could be able to have a sexual intercourse with a man even though i dont want it is it still hocd or just denial? like i am feeling okey but there is still that doubt that how can i know that im not gay if i dont get disgusted by gay things or gay personality traits and at the same time i want to feel normal again like before
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- 24w
I don’t know if it’s SOOCD. I no longer feel anxious in the moment when I think about women, and it’s like my imagination wants me to think about it and get aroused. I don’t want to be gay, but maybe I am after all. In my life I haven’t been so sexually driven before (when I was living with a man, or when being single) but now all I can think about is having sex with a woman. I don’t want to, but somehow my body does and it feels like my mind have changed to accept it to.. feel so sad This all started around 4 weeks ago..
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- 21w
I had a bad rumination spiral yesterday and went to bed hoping I’d start over in the morning. I was wrong. I had dreams about liking women and not being attracted to men anymore and my entire body has been in a state of anxiety since. I genuinely feel like I’m gay and just need to accept it. I have this urge to accept it. Maybe if I do I’ll get some sort of relief because this feeling is awful. I feel like my brain is telling me that I’ll get relief if I just accept it and come out. The intrusive thoughts don’t even seem to be around sexual images anymore, just to come out.
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