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- 3y
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- 3y
Calm down , it’s just OCD playing you , you still have the anxiety for not feeling anxiety , you’re straight , don’t worry
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- 3y
Thankyou but its so hard to believe anything anyone says because what i feel feels so real that i just don’t know what to do and i feel like i get a thought naturally and then i force myself to think about it cause like that relieves me and makes me still think it as ocd while knowing that it might not be like what am i even supposed to do?
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- 3y
@Brave through It’s hard for me as well , I haven’t started ERP and CBT but I’m going to , but it’s not a real worry , I know it feels real but it’s just something your OCD is using to play you
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- 3y
@henriquefortini I am glad to know i am not alone in this cause this is torture feeling like it feels so real and sometimes i think i am the only one woth such extremities and thats why mines like true and other have ocd and not me cause like after a while the anxiety stopped it started feeling real and everything else that i do for reassurance didn’t relieve me and started to feel forced am I supposed to feel this way when i have ocd?
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- 3y
@Brave through Yes , everything that OCD is going to is to make you feel bad , I had many topics of OCD like POCD and Harm OCD and I thought I was going crazy , this one is hard because it all feels so real but I just remind myself what I’ve always liked for once in a while , which is being straight and enjoying being with girls and that’s what makes me happy not the current state which I am right now
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- 3y
@henriquefortini On here someone said thy after erp and when i am done recovering from my fears i can explore my sexuality but like I don’t understand why would i be okay with that idea am i ?!? Am i sacred cause i shouod be because this is supposed to be triggering and i am not what do i take from that and also the fact that if I consider that as an option what does that prove? Like my fears are actually true and like if i am supposed to know later and okay with that idea why don’t i know now or do I actually know and don’t wanna accept it?!? Like what is it these thoughts feel too real and nothing like what it felt when I actually like guys that itself says a lof?!? And if i am okay with not knowing what is that then if i am okay with this idea of knowing later what do i do then? There are just so many questions and no answers what if i want to explore later and me just saying that means there’s some truth in it isn’t it? And like all this was a lie cause i was faking it?
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- 3y
@Brave through If you actually want to explore it later in life you can but you are not if it’s something that makes you scared like OCD , you’re clearly not someone right now who is willing to explore their sexuality, someone who is willing to do that actually has curiosity and good feelings by doing that , not someone who feels scared and bad with that idea
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- 3y
@henriquefortini I agree but i still tend to question everything and never get the answer to the question am I actually staright? Do i believe in the answer do i even want to believe in it? Like idk what to do? Do i want to accept it and these questions make me think if i have so many doubts about this and will i be able to accept it or not proves my fears could be actually true at this point i don’t even know who i am and that honestly scares me
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- 3y
@Brave through It scares me as well and I know it’s hard to do this but try to think of yourself the day before this came , you were happy and not questioning your sexuality
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- Date posted
- 24w
I keep having this weird feeling none stop that it’s most likely not HOCD and most my feelings. Like I’ve suffered none stop distress and unwanted thoughts the past few days. But those thoughts after a bit just feel weird not the kind of discomfort but are just their and stale. When I look at a guy I don’t feel anything but my thoughts sometimes compliment his looks or personality which makes me doubt my sexuality. I’ve never felt this weirded out. Because I’ve always been straight and still believe I am but I’ve never even had an emotional connection to someone of the opposite gender in fact. My view of the female body has been ruined with none stop pornography addictions. I don’t believe I’m gay but I feel like it may just be denial instead of HOCD but all my symptoms are literally HOCD. I don’t hate the idea of gay people but I can’t imagine or see my heart going off to like someone of the same sex. I haven’t really had any meaningful real life friends besides online but that also ended a few months ago. My only friend ever online that was my friend for the longest of time was a queer but I never really cared about what he liked. Like yes at some point I did try to challenge him with his own feelings but that didn’t last long I just accepted what he liked and moved on. I’ve never even touched let alone held a long conversation with a female. I’ve always been timid and shy around them but I can just say that towards male as well. The gay feelings feel so real. The thoughts feel a bit natural to me but I don’t want this. But I hate how I can’t just move on and be myself and love women when those thoughts demand attention and an answer. It won’t quit it. If I try to do a compulsion it calms down but it quickly becomes a problem again. I’m lonely I don’t have any friends or past relationships I can even think of helping me with the emotions. I still believe I’m straight and I just can’t see myself with a guy. It just doesn’t feel right for me despite my lack of experiences. I just wanna go back to how I was happy and loving girls and not having to question if it was a real feeling or just my natural timid nature. Everytime I think these distressing thoughts I always just wanna sit down and close my eyes and sleep. Because that’s where I can have peace of self. It sucks but I’m so exhausted of having to deal with emotional distress and I can’t even focus on my job as much. I want to meet new people discover my love for women again but I’m scared in the process I may discover I may be gay. Because deep down I know I wouldn’t ever be happy with myself if my greatest fears where confirmed. My dream of always being a father with a loving women and kids would be torn away by something I never asked for. Yes I’m religious, yes I come from a place that homosexuals are usually seen in a bad light. I just hate feeling this emotion that I may not be what I thought and having my dreams torn apart maybe true. I’ve read MUTIPLE articles about HOCD and seen MUTIPLE videos. I’ve come to the realization that I most likely have it. But it’s still hard when the feelings of maybe being gay maybe true you know? I hope I get better I hope I don’t suffer. I just wanna be happy with myself and loving females and I don’t wanna hate myself for feeling an emotion that never occurred to me more then a few times.
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- 23w
So i started to feel like a lesbian again and that i have to be one. I dont want to be one. I just dont. But being straight feel like a lie now. I question my whole life, my feelings and everything. The biggest indicator of this must be that i will be slowly 21 year old and ive never dated anyone and i dont really find anyone attractive and i dont even know if i truly was attracted to someone and im scared of relationships i might have trauma or have anxious avoidant attachment. Help me. I do feel lost. Really lost. I dont know who am I anymore. I feel like that i must have been gay my whole life now. I feel like an alien. I sometimes feel like 2 people are living inside of me.😞😞😞
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- Date posted
- 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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