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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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- 23w
anyone else have a good evening/ day then fall back down hurrendously the next day? Honestly yesterday I felt great! Like I knew what I like (opposite gender) and these ‘false attractions’ are just false alarms caused by OCD… like I knew these thoughts and feeling are OCD. Today I question it all over again. Are these false attractions real? Why has my loss of opposite attraction feel like it won’t return? Though yesterday I got snippets.
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- 21w
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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- 20w
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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