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- 5y ago
You don’t tell, you have to make peace with not knowing with 100% certainty...because NOTHING in life is 100% certain...just chalk it up to the “human experience” ya know? Like intrusive thoughts are just that, they’re random and weird and crazy, I still struggle with Pure O, but realizing this helped me a lot. Your brain is a random danger-sensing machine, Incest is a danger it senses so it’s trying to freak you out by imagining this danger and keeping you as far away from it as possible, but it’s going a bit far so just let the thoughts happen and don’t follow them, acknowledge that some deep part of you is just a scared uncivilized animal but a much MUCH shallower part is sure that it’s bullshit, try some meditation
And remember MOST IMPORTANTLY accept that there’s some deep weird animal part of you that’s capable of gross weird shit...but literally everyone has that same part, they just don’t obsess about it as much, and while I’d say they’re more “healthy” than we currently are...it doesn’t make them better, the fact that we let these things bother us show how much empathy we have, like were probably much less likely to commit atrocities than an average person because of how vigilant we watch ourselves.... But that being said, it’s time to let cooler heads prevail, and trust ourselves more
Don’t give up keep praying and I will pray for happiness and peace in your life
I hope you feel better! There’s this mountain meditation that helps me out...check out the Anxiety Coaches Podcast episode called like “the mountain meditation” or something similar...it’s all about letting your thoughts pass without resistance, it’s VERY helpfull
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Thanks for the clarification
Thank you
i have this ocd
My OCD convinces me I'm attracted to my brother and it kills me
So looks like I’ve hit a wall I haven’t hit ever with this ocd. If you can even call it ocd. I genuinely feel confused. Idk what’s real or not. Idk what my mind or body wants. I feel so stressed out. My thoughts don’t give me anxiety anymore and sometimes it genuinely feels like I want it and I’m just hiding it. I don’t get it. I even lost attraction to this girl I was madly interested in. I don’t know what to do anymore really. I see any dude and my mind automatically starts thinking “you’re attracted to him” literally every single guy I see. I’m not even kidding. I really don’t get what’s going on with me. I haven’t been diagnosed yet because there are no ocd specialists in my area. My mom told me once she thinks she has ocd and my aunt as well. But their ocd seems more like the “traditional” type of ocd where you can actually see their compulsions. I think I struggled from Religious ocd a few years back. Also with my ex girlfriend there was a period where I struggled with ROCD I believe but got over it. Now Hocd has definitely been the worst and what makes it worse is that I actually had a gay experience but even after that I didn’t question my sexuality. I maybe would get the ocasional “you’re gay” thought but wouldn’t pay it attention and it just went away. But now it just can’t leave my head. This has been going on since February. I used to be crazy for women, don’t know what’s wrong with me. I even had sex with the girl I really like about 2 weeks ago and really enjoyed it! But now my attraction for her seemingly disappeared out of nowhere when this hocd bull starts acting up again. I’m so tired of this.
How can to tell the difference actually being gay or hocd I’ve been struggling with this I don’t want to be gay the thought of it scares me and I’ve always liked women but suddenly I get these intrusive thoughts of possibly being gay and it scares the crap out of me but if feels so real. It’s so much lately that I feel like a certain attraction to same sex but I feel it’s like a false attraction. I’ve had ocd for a few years now it was only contamination and a bit of pocd but now it’s this theme . Please help? Anyone go thru this ? How can you tell the difference am I really turning gay or is this HOCD? I obsess about this day and night it gives me a lot of anxiety I fear it being true my thoughts
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