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When I did it it felt like I was coming out even though I’m not gay, my mom was not freaked out and I told her the symptoms and why I was scared of it. She searched it up and we got a therapist.
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I only told my mom I had ocd. Not what subset.
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The people closest to you know your tendencies and know your attributes. They will help you understand clearly who you have always been and what they see in you. Keep them close to you because you go through a lot of dark period in OCD and you need to hear who you are! If they truly thought you were gay they would surely tell you. The people who love you want to see you happy. If they thought you were gay and thought you’d be happier gay, then they would share it. The best medicine and healing for us is through our loving support.
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The thing is even your closest friends may not understand because it was even hard for me to understand it myself. I told my friends and some were supportive, others thought that their may be a "meaning" as in I was trying to come out of the closet but now I know they were just trying to support me and didn't want me to feel afraid. We've talked about it more and they have opened up. It's a confusing thing for most people but remember that you don't need reassurance from people - you just gotta accept the what if
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I told my mom and a close friend of mine. My mom doesn’t really understand the OCD part, but she was understanding about the intrusive thoughts and panic and knows me well enough to know that what I was experiencing wasn’t my usual self. I was super nervous to tell her though!! I felt like I was going to throw up and I started crying afterwards. And when I told my friend they were actually really understanding too (they and their sister both have OCD). At first I didn’t tell them the theme but when I finally did they already knew that this was a theme of OCD. I was mostly afraid that they would misunderstand me or think I was a bad person. I’m going to an OCD specialist soon so I guess we’ll see what’s up.
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I’ve come out as both queer and having ocd. They’re not really the same, although there are similarities .
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Can you explain the differences ?
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I mean I don’t have HOCD exactly I think, although my Ocd makes me doubt many things. But for one thing coming out as queer is different bc people tend to understand it better? Less explanation required right? But I think the similarities are that you join a community and stuff. Also coming out is not a one time thing regardless of what you come out. You have to keep doing it. Idk if that helps. I think people are nicer about being queer if you’re somewhere liberal than they are about having ocd .
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- 25w
I feel awful that I keep coming on here whenever I’m down bad but oh my gosh OCD is the most painful shit that I have EVER experienced in my life and I have a physical chronic illness…. I hate to say it but I hate living right now it’s too painful… im crying as I type to the point where my stomach is hurting, I have pretty severe ocd I do have generalized anxiety and idk if that is connected with ocd but because of that I have most of the subtypes REAL EVENT OCD,POCD,ZOCD,ROCD,SOCD HARM OCD, you name it and I got it!!! a lot of also why I have have those theme is trauma growing up and involving those things^ as of right now i’m 25 and a women with the most loving boyfriend in the entire world before my ocd hit me I NEVER questioned my love and care and attraction with the love of my life I always knew I was going to marry and be with this person the rest of my life! Now with ocd it confuses me soooo much and now I think I’m gay and didn’t realize or indenial and listen I get it “don’t look for reassurance!” “It’s not the thing ocd is attacking that is the problem ocd is the actual problem!” Here’s the thing with that if I’m in a relationship and I’m gay that would mean I would have to leave that said relationship and to say that “oh yeah that stuff happens and you’ll move on” is absolutely devastating to me this is THE LOVE OF MY LIFE and your telling me that iv been lying to myself this whole time or that I didn’t realize?!?!? And that sexuality can change (even though some say it can’t google says otherwise and some people have said it can’t idek anymore) and all this other BULLSHIT I can’t take it WHY?!?! why does this have to happen why can’t I just be with my love the rest of my life?!? and yes before anyone says anything I have been attracted to girls more so when I was younger watching lesbian porn liking the body’s and fantazing them sexually it stopped when I got older but I still don’t get disgusted with women who are pretty it just makes me uncomfortable because I’m with the love of my life and before I remember talking to my partner and discussing certain childhood things I experienced and we discussed that we both could be a little bi and for certain I’m (demi sexual so I don’t even really care about looks) and I truly didn’t care!! NOW I do care even with being bi because again I don’t like thinking about anyone else but my partner but I do also know my parents are homophobic and I do think about if I am gay they wouldn’t be okay with that and I also dont want to deal with that so now I sound like in indenial right?!???? I didn’t even care about labels before my ocd it just didn’t matter but now it’s effected my sex life and it’s hard for me to enjoy sex with being so confused I’m so confused I googled everything can you still have sexual fantasies with same gender but still be straight? Can you fantasize about same gender or imagine marrying them all of it !!! And non of that disgusts me it just makes me uncomfortable AGIAN only bc I just love the partner I’m with right now!!! I’m so fucking confused do I have to leave my partner and accept that I’m gay is that going to happen in the future if I get better with ocd and find out it’s been true all along?!???
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For me it was a weird intrusive thought and after that I slowly started developing anxiety and I felt a weird thing like I was losing my attraction to girls. Then I woke up one day in complete panic cuz it felt like I had lost feelings for girls suddenly and I started searching online how to know if you’re gay if sexuality changes suddenly and I took some gay tests or sexuality tests online. Chat gpt was a big thing back then too. That was before therapy and before I knew what ocd is.Can anyone relate?
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- 24d
Is anyone here actually gay and has/had sexuality or religious ocd? I don't have it at all haha I'm a lesbian myself without socd or religious ocd but I'm just curious: what's it like and how did you deal with the whole "biggest fear coming true" thing?
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