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This sounds exactly like me. I am currently away from my girlfriend for two weeks and it’s making it all seem very real. I can relate to literally everything you’ve said in your post. And it’s as if I do still find women attractive but just not in the same way anymore it’s like it’s purely sexual with no romance or maybe a little but not a lot. When I Think about it too much it feels like what was real in the moment is now a lie
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I remember few months ago my attraction was purely sexual aswell, I was compulsively checking out women but even that is gone, I fewl nothing anymore, like its blank and empty when I look at women. I feel everything for guys now
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@Imaan7 Literally since reading this I feel like I’m about to go my next step through the whole where I lose my attraction to women all together
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@BradOCD I thought loss of attraction was scary but this is something else and you probably wont lose any of it, its hard to feel romantic connection when your brain is under stress and anxiety. I read your posts and they are clear cut hocd I dont know about me, I think im just gay which is why its completely gone.
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@Imaan7 But do you not see that that in itself doesn’t make much sense. Your attraction can’t just go, if you always found women attractive then that just won’t disappear. Maybe you’re now realising your bi instead? Part of me feels like that’s what is happening to me. Which in all honesty I wouldn’t mind as much
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@BradOCD I think my attraction was just a result of hetero conditioning, growing up where there was no homo exposure or anything, following what other guys were doing, chasing girls and thinking this is what I have to do too, not being given an option basically. If Im bi then Im more bi than straight which essentially just makes me gay. I used to take comfort in thinking ok ill take being bi any day that way I can atleast have some attraction for women but that didnt work either. Whatever I did feel for girls has switched to men and it feels stronger, more real, natural and easily achievable.
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@BradOCD This is me. Like I don’t even mind being bi if it means I still like men and I can still be with my bf
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@Imaan7 You are not alone I promise. And i find comfort in knowing I’m not alone. I feel like the more thought we put into it the more real everything will get. I still feel like it’s out mint trying to trick us and since it causes so much anxiety our brain feels like we are in danger therefore focusing even more on those thoughts
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I do really want to help you and others on here. But things like that are just extremely too triggering for me to read.
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I am so sorry. But never forget you’re not alone and we got this. I feel like we are in a similar path and I just know we are going to get through this
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I've always found women pretty and admired them since I was younger, never wanted to be with them or anything. I always pictured having a boyfriend and my crushes were always boys. I have a boyfriend now but because this has happened I feel nothing towards him or any men. To be honest I'm so exhausted I don't feel much at all, there was so much anxiety at the start and now there is none. Does that mean I have accepted the thoughts. My mind keeps going you were suppressed all these years but I do find women pretty so that's what's making it worse. Am I just in denial and being delusional? I never doubted my sexuality before this I always considered myself to be straight but I feels like my mind has been twisted and can't remember any attraction to guys but can remember thinking girls are pretty? Does this mean it's all real? I don't know anymore
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I feel sick to my stomach, a few days ago I knew I was straight and could picture my life with my bf again. The anxiety has really lessend and Im more depressed now. I'm 100% convinced I am lesbian even tho I have never had sexual attraction to women, found them pretty but never wanted to be with them. My mind is only picturing me being with women now and it feels like a pit in my stomach. I don't feel emotion now, I'm also on my period. I don't want to be lesbian. I want to be with my boyfriend and have the life I pictured with him. My memory is so dissorted right now. I don't think there's anything wrong with being lesbian, it's just not for me and now that makes me feel like I'm homophobic.
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I am a 18 year old masc lesbian with a loving girlfriend for 1 year, and I have been lesbian for almost my whole life and I have never been attracted to men in any way. flash to my past, My ex girlfriend who used to identify as a lesbian had cheated on me with a man. Recently I saw this tiktok of this masc lesbian turn straight and my friends and girlfriend made jokes I am going to turn straight for my male best friend. My male best friend came over and he’s a great guy but I do not want him in any way. when him and i were hanging out my mind threw in a thought it was “What if i like him”, i came back home and i had the worst panic attack and i felt so sick, i cried and i cried. ever since that day I have been struggling with intrusive thoughts, i don’t want a man in any way, and i feel comfortable as a lesbian but these thoughts won’t stop and they become worse when i see people say being lesbian is a phase or that i haven’t met the right guy or i’ll change in the future. i just want these thoughts to stop, i don’t want to stop being a lesbian ever, i love women so much and i just want all of this to be over with. i do not want a man in any way and im tired of my thoughts doubting myself and i hate the “what ifs”, I just want to be my old self, I want to be happy with my girlfriend.
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