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It’s not a competition. It may not be fun but there’s nothing wrong with being single and there’s a strength that not many posses at being able to be alone /on your own for a while. To be our best/healthiest we all have to be in that position at some point in our lives
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I know it’s not a competition... I just feel lonely because I’m constantly reminded that the holidays are about romance and how am I supposed to celebrate when I don’t have a girlfriend, I’m 4 hours away from my family for university, and I don’t have any friends? Not to mention with the HOCD it makes things feel real and makes me feel like crap... 😭😭😭
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@POCD/RealEventOCD Oh please no they’re not. Or at least they aren’t SOLEY about romance. How’re you supposed to celebrate? Do you want a gf just cause you’re lonely, as a place holder? Or because you want to share a life with someone? As for celebrating with no friends. buy a special dinner, watch your favorite movie, play video games, video chat people from home. go home for holidays if you can.
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@POCD/RealEventOCD I can empathize with SO-OCD, which I prefer to call it, but like I said singlehood may not be fun but there are worse things
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@Bookworm91 I want a girlfriend to emotionally connect with someone. Spending my life with the girl of my dreams would be something beautiful that I would love to have... I don’t have a car so I can’t drive anywhere, I don’t really have the time for video games due to finals and such, and my dads busy at work all day and so is my mom. So they never really spend time with me and my sister on the holidays...
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@Bookworm91 I also have POCD and real event OCD... so my life doesn’t feel great in any way...
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@POCD/RealEventOCD Well maybe it’s better that you’re single at the moment until everything settles a bit. You seem to have a lot going on. And another human brings with them their own issues that will inevitably add to yours. Not that there aren’t people worth handling that kind of stuff for but still maybe it’s good that you don’t have any added stuff to deal with. How old are you out of curiosity?
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@Bookworm91 20 years old... The fact I’m dealing with heartbreak over the holidays just sucks... 😭😭😭 and it’s not because I’m trying to find a replacement for the girl that rejected me... it’s because I genuinely want emotional connection with a girl who understands me 😭😭😭
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So my OCD has been bad lately. I’ve been ruminating and obsessing over my sexuality again. And it just keeps getting worse. I hate it so much. I try to sit with the discomfort but then my ocd does the backdoor spike. And the groinal response is what keeps me looped. It SUCKS. I am not attracted to men, but my OCD is trying SO hard to convince me that I am. There have been days where I’m just so mentally exhausted that I “accept” what my ocd tells me and I just walk around a hollow, lethargic shell. But then I rethink it and I feel better. It feels like I can only find my TRUE self when I tire my nervous system out enough that it literally breaks down and has me suicidal and hopeless. And then accepting my OCD’s “truth” (that I’m attracted to men) feels like a burden and a chore. I woke up today from an OCD dream, tried to go back to sleep, and my stomach kept cramping bc I was so anxious and ruminating over my intrusive thoughts. I’m starting to doubt it being OCD anymore. My brain is too tired to fight and cry about it anymore.
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I don’t know what to do with this bs anymore. I’m crying again and again and again and again. I cannot describe how painful this is. I’ve recovered from every single OCD subtype expect this one. HOCD is so scary and it’s so incredibly scary how it feels so real. The issue with this subtype is how intertwined it is with feelings and sensations. I hate how it keeps latching onto the past and uses the past as proof. I don’t want it to be the truth. I don’t want to accept any possibility.
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I’ve been dealing with SOOCD for over a year now, and I have been having a very hard day today. I feel like I just need someone to talk too, my whole life I’ve always had girl crushes and always wanted to be romantic with women . Ever since I posted this picture on instagram and one person said I looked “zesty” in it , which is when I started obsessing about being gay . I feel like I put so much meaning to these thoughts where now I’m always checking how I feeling around men. I had a really bad porn addiction for a long time and bad anxiety which fucked up my sex drive. I feel like I doubt if I’m attracted to women when I know I am , but the doubt is so overbearing where I start to believe it . I never was interested in men sexually, and my ocd makes me feel like I like the thoughts even though I feel no pleasure out of it. I feel like I lost who I am as a person . It feels like I don’t even know what my sexuality is and it’s really upsetting to me . I meant this girl the other day and she is the most beautiful woman I’ve ever met and I just feel like ocd is getting in the way😭😭😭 please any advice or comments
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