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Mine got real bad last night. I was watching a youtube video and enjoying the fact that i thought one of the guys in it was really cute. My brain suddenly crashed in with "you like him because he looks like a girl" which was literally in no way true whatsoever. I just sort noticed it as an ocd thought and then later in the video several girls showed up and i absolutely panicked. My brain went haywire with "do you want to kiss them?! You DO" which forced me immediately into a compulsion. The spiral was so bad and horrible and then once it was over and my head cleared i was like "...wait a minute. Dammit!!" Its absolutely crazy how ocd can twist you and program your brain certain ways despite having tons of evidence to the contrary. Because its chasing that compulsory relief. Thats what it wants.
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I relate to both posts SO much!! Ocd could give a rats ASS about evidence. There’s absolutely no way to convince it, it’s a fruitless task. Sometimes I try to just laugh at it. Like I’ll have the thought, and then as fast as I can before the anxiety sets in I’ll be like “haha yea SURE”. Mostly though I just calmly hold off the anxiety for as long as I can until “it” gets bored and leaves me alone.
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yeah! everytime i go to my therapist and she asks me what evidence is behind my worry i’ll b like “uhh wait actually not really anything, except this one, small thing that happened two years ago” and she will literally give me 10 straight up SCIENCE facts as to why that worry is not worth spending time on, but damn it’ll still pop up the the next hour and the evidence seems all forgotten
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Please tell me how to overcome religious OCD
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OK thanks
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Sorry long post. Anyone feel like now they’re just in extreme denial. Like when I was little I noticed guys more than girls in movies and was more drawn to them. I remember changing my mindset to switch that. 98%of my life has been straight until recently. I felt drawn to some guys but never thought of it sexually. Always had girl crushes dreams and porn. Now I watch porn and I feel like straight takes longer and then I go and watch gay porn and feel nothing until I tell myself it’s two attractive dudes and love is love and imagine physical sensations and then it hits like suddenly. Like I have to convince myself it’s alright. Then when I try again I can do all that but feel nothing and then straight porn works. Idk if it’s just getting a fix or the first time works with anything or what but it’s confusing. On top of that I’ve felt girl relationships including my wife maybe miss something and a guy maybe matches that feeling that but then I feel like I’d be missing something without a girl or my wife. Idk I’ve had some rough times in life with male figures in my life but idk. I feel like I have to convince myself more and more that I’m straight even more than the first time I dealt with this. Can someone relate? Please
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Think logically. Literally. Take me as an example. I have hocd and my obsession is “what if I’m gay”. I’ve liked girls my whole life, I can still get aroused by them and I can’t get the same instinctive reaction from a guy. So I can’t be gay. Sometimes ocd will go to something else once you prove it wrong. Maybe like. “What if I’m bi” again I can only get aroused by girls. Sometimes when I’m not thinking about it I can even get aroused when sitting next to a girl or when I’m sitting next to one or even when I’m touching one in a non sexual way. Something that never happens or has happened with a guy in my life. Don’t start panicking. Just “realise” who you are and who you’ve been.
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Like I can’t think straight. This is making me doubt everything I’ve thought about myself and even makes me feel like I like the thoughts when I know I don’t. Like I would be less anxious at a time while I still have the thoughts and my mind would go “oh so you like it you must be gay” or the other one where I’m not anxious and I think of my attraction for girls that I’ve had my whole life and my mind goes “see now you’re not into them you’re gay” like it’s so stupid but so effective. I clearly remember being into girls my whole life but my mind is making me believe that all these attractions and feelings for women were all fake or “a thing of the past”. But I can still get aroused by women but I have this weird anxiety going on which brings these sensations/feelings and it’s so weird. Today I’ve spent my whole day thinking about it like I’ve been doing for 5 months now. I know that this aint normal but my mind just won’t let me live in peace. I never cared about my sexuality cuz I simply liked women my whole life but now my sexuality is a fundamental philosophy. I hate this.
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