- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 3y
Did you identify as bisexual before the subtype hit? If this question is personal you have to answer it. For me I thought I was straight and my problem is the same my ocd is either you’re completely straight or completely gay no in between or slight deviation
Yes, I did identify as bisexual for about 2 years before I got obsessed with my sexuality
@Kaylaaaa I’m so sorry you’re going through this too. I’m not sure if I was bisexual before his or mostly straight or whatever. But this having to constantly choose one or the other, is so distressing
@Legallyocd I have trans OCD as well, and relationship OCD. I'm just so tired
@Kaylaaaa I have rocd too and I get it. I cried to my therapist today because I told her that I just want to feel like I know who I am
@Legallyocd Same. I'm so tired
@Kaylaaaa What was it that triggered your ocd ?
@Legallyocd Anxiety surrounding romance turned into what's my swxuality turned into I'm trans. You?
@Kaylaaaa I had also been scared of being gay then because my core fear since I was little was that I lie. That and the fact that I always jump to the worst case scenario because I don’t want to get my hopes up and be wrong (to make clear being lgbtqia+ is not the worst case scenario at all, but for me it was like really scary because then you would be different and you wouldn’t be able to like boys). However, I never really spent time on it until one day a random stranger asked me if I was a lesbian and that set off ever since
@Legallyocd Always *
@Legallyocd That's so interesting. I identified as bisexual for years, and then one day had a panic attack because a male best friend liked me so I assumed that meant I was a lesbian and boom
@Kaylaaaa Wow it’s crazy how this stuff gets stuck !
@Legallyocd It somehow turned into trans OCD last February, which was officially when I couldn't cope.
@Kaylaaaa You know kaylaa in way the fact that it changed themes is a good thing because that means that the soocd doesn’t bother you as much anymore so now your ocd is looking for something else that you care about to attack. So whatever you did for the last theme you should try on this theme.
@Legallyocd Idk if that would work. Because it went away because I accepted being a lesbian. (Turns out I was wrong). I cant accept being trans. I've come close a few times, when I feel the most awful and feel the only way out of the pain is to live as a man. But every time something holds me back
Right but you see you got over the fear of having to choose because you accepted the possibility which allowed you to understand your true feelings. So maybe since it’s hard now to accept being a boy maybe it would be easier to accept that you maybe a boy but you don’t care. It’s easier said than done because look at me o haven’t been able to move past soocd, but I know you can do it because you already did once before
Yeah. But its just so hard for me to accept I want to be a boy because I do care. So much
@Kaylaaaa I understand you. Because that’s how I feel about my SOOCD. I just can’t pick a side there’s always something that gets me ruminating again. How did you accept being a lesbian?
I have experienced every theme that can be added to post but I’m currently experiencing those. So I am on the spectrum and I happen to have a high sensory profile and it definitely gives the ocd more to latch unto. I would see a pretty female with makeup done and it eatssss and I would notice the facial symmetry + how her features compliment each other and my ocd would be like why did you notice she is pretty, BECAUSE I HAVE EYES😭! I can’t be the only neurodivergent person that notices details and how attractive people are intensely? I do not even care about orientation but I know for sure if I was into women, it won’t just start plaguing me one evening Im my head shouting “you are gay” like man Im a female at least say you are a lesbian 😭😂😂😂😂. How can I genuinely have no interest and get outrightly repulsed by females sexually and romantically. It feels like I am being forced to be something im not. I tried accepting i am lesbian but I experienced more anxiety and could not sleep till I accepted i am still straight and it is ocd playing with me(ocd leave me alone, I don’t even enjoy playing with you) I accepted i am a lesbian like ocd said I should but why do I still love my ex and hope I marry him😭 + I couldn’t bring myself to be interested in females. OCD leave me alone because I don’t enjoy this game again! I’m not homophobic at all but denouncing Im straight doesn’t feel like home and I still find myself yearning for only men
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.
I wouldn’t really say I have SO-OCD, but it manifests in some areas of my TOCD. Like if I see a woman for example my thoughts will go “what if I like her but as a man?” like my thoughts say I’m a straight man instead of a straight woman. And it’s really bothering me. If I see an attractive woman my brain will re-wire and imagine myself as a man looking at an attraction woman and it gets super uncomfortable that I have to like shake my head and say “no no no no no” multiple times to get the thought out. I know that counts as a compulsion but it’s hard to not do it because it’s so triggering. Now I don’t mind if I like women, however I’m really scared that I’m actually a straight man who likes women (or at least a bisexual man, considering I like men) and I hate it because I don’t want to be a man. Like I’ll think of my desired relationship as a woman dating a man but my OCD will switch it up to me being the man dating the woman, which is the opposite of what I want. I don’t want to be a man at all and I don’t want to date a woman, both of those are the opposite of my desires, but I’m still so scared. I’ll accept myself if I actually like women and am a bisexual woman, however I heard that being bisexual can mean being trans which scares me (for the record it was said in reddit by a sub which is mainly focused on a pseudoscientific phenomenon, that is still believed by the members to be true, so it’s definitely not a trustworthy statement, but my OCD will use anything to work against me) Does anyone here relate a little? 🥲
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