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Im in the same boat except I'm a guy. It's very hard dealing with this every day adds sm stress on top of everything else I have going on. Like my hocd is trying so hard to get me to change when I don't want to I never wanted to my whole life and for the rest of my life I just want women . What sucks even more to top it off for me is that me and my girlfriend had recently broken up because of this . I feel like I'm never gonna get better every day feels like I barely make it
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I’m sorry you’re struggling. I’m really scared because I just had a thought walking through my apartment. I feel really cold which makes sense because it’s winter although it’s California so our winter is nothing compared to basically everybody else’s but still. I have sweats on I have socks on I have a sweater on you know and I’m still cold. So I thought hey why don’t I take my temperature maybe I’m sick. I’m a dishwasher and no matter how hard you try you always get a little wet when you’re washing the dishes and I was stuck in wet clothes for a long time. I usually do closing shifts 5 PM to 12 AM. And so as I was doing that I meant and going to work anyway feeling really hot and some girl I said that I but I don’t like her like that and I said I am I had a thought of her taking care of me if you know what I mean like I do but I don’t have feelings for girls and I’m scared I’ve struggled with I don’t have feelings for her there’s nothing for me to struggle with I struggle with thoughts if you know what I mean. But I’ve never had a thought like oh would she be concerned I just never cared but a girl wanted to take care of me I don’t want to kiss girls I don’t wanna be intimate I don’t wanna relationship. Do you think that’s OCD? Because it felt weird I don’t want to change it on frightened I am and I don’t want that to be part of life either I don’t want to lose it for guys as a whole like broadly in general and I definitely don’t wanna lose it for my guy personally
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@Bookworm91 Honestly as much as our mind tries to tell us we are it's just our ocd. We hate these thoughts and don't want them not because we are in denial but because there not true. But it just sucks having to deal with this. Ive seen people recover from this so I know it can happen . We have to stay strong no matter what are mind tells us.
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Deep down we know what is really true and how we feel that's why we hate them our hocd just takes intrusive thoughts and mixes them tg that's why sometimes they may feel real
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Hi everyone, I’ve been really anxious lately, and I just need to get this out of my head. Someone recently told me that maybe I’m bisexual — that I might be more sexually attracted to women, but more romantically attracted to men. That bisexuality is not 50/50. And ever since I heard that, I’ve been spiraling. The thing is: I don’t want this to be true. It scares me. I don’t feel romantic attraction to women, I’ve never wanted to be in a relationship with one. But yes, I get aroused by fantasies involving women — and that makes me feel broken or like I’ve been lying to myself. I love my boyfriend deeply, I don’t want to lose him. I want to feel fully connected to him, physically and emotionally. But now I’m stuck in this obsessive loop of questioning: “What if I’m just in denial?” “What if I’m not really straight?” “What if this is why my libido is low?” It’s exhausting, and I don’t know if this is OCD, anxiety, or if something is fundamentally wrong. Has anyone else felt this split — romantic feelings for one gender, sexual feelings for another? I feel so alone and scared. Thanks for listening.
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Okay so today after I woke up I had an absolutely unexpected thought about a girl, but I DIDN’T MIND IT. So all I felt that it was unexpected but I didn’t feel shame or guilt or something. I started pacing back and forth my room and it was like my brain accepted that I’m bisexual and I started getting anxious about what my family and friends will think about it then I had the thought “If I’m afraid of coming out, that means I’m actually bisexual” and I started asking ChatGPT about what is happening to me and it wrote the usual answer “That’s typical with OCD, it doesn’t mean anything” but it didn’t calm me down a bit and it was just so confusing because for about twenty minutes it was like having this certainity about being bisexual but it didn’t help I was stressing just like before. I know this means I’m not comfortable with the thought and it’s not ego-syntonic, but I wasn’t necessarily anxious about the thought just anxious in general. Then I started fantasizing about men, and it gave me anxiety too but it felt more right. I tried out how it would make me feel if I fantasized about women but all those fantasies lasted barely 3-4 seconds after that my brain just shifted to other thoughts. I can’t listen to one of my favourite songs because it’s sung by an attractive woman and I’m getting these thoughts about me liking her. I don’t understand what’s going on with me, because whenever I read a story here by someone who's struggling with SO-OCD they always write “I don’t want to be gay, I want to go back when everything was normal” but for me every time I get a similar thought it’s immediatly overshadowed by “Of course you’re bisexual, look at all these evidences, you want to be bisexual, you’re just in denial, look at these people, they are real OCD-sufferers, you don’t, you’re welcoming the thoughts, you want them, you’re not comfortable with your heterosexual identity, you always wanted women” etc. etc. It’s so confusing because all along my journey with OCD I had the certainity in myself that I like men but now I feel like I lost this and it feels like a real sexuality crisis now.
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It feels like I don’t who I am anymore. It feels like the heterosexual label just doesn’t fit me anymore. It feels like I am genuinely attracted to women. It feels like I don’t want to be straight anymore. I read about a girl who struggled with SO-OCD until she found out she was actually bisexual, the sexuality she was afraid of her being. There are so many signs pointing out that I’m actually bisexual. I feel like I actually am bisexual I just can’t accept it. I feel like I actually want to be bisexual. All my attraction towards boys feel like a lie now. But that doesn’t make sense because if I was bisexual I WOULD BE ATTRACTED TO MEN TOO. OMG DOES THIS MEAN I’M A LESBIAN WHO WAS AFRAID OF BEING BISEXUAL AND ALL ALONG I WAS AFRAID OF BEING WITH MEN?? PLS SOMEONE HELP ME I GENUINELY DON’T KNOW WHO I AM ANYMORE
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