YaBoio
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- 3y
AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 3y
Yeah!! I suffered from sexual orientation ocd for over a year and I finally feel free from it! Freedom came from keeping my self uncertain and for me that means not labeling my sexuality because I know my ocd will never let me put a label on myself because you just can’t know anything with 100% certainty so I just stopped trying to figure it out. When you stop caring, it stops bothering you as much
HJOxHJOx
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- 3y
Did you think you’d be stuck forever? X
AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 3y
@HJOx I definitely did. I thought every single day for the rest of my life I’d only be having thoughts about sexuality. But that simply wasn’t true, thanks to God & therapy!! It also helped me to remember how I used to think before I had ocd (I got it when I was 19, so luckily I remembered what my brain was like before). So when Id be ruminating on something id think, “would I have worried about this before I had ocd??” And the answer was always no, and it helped me get back to my old self
HJOxHJOx
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- 3y
@Anonymous That’s amazing girl! So happy for you! Can I ask what the main tips were for overcoming this subtype ? Obviously I know ERP, but if there were some techniques that you found worked best? X
AnonymousAnonymous
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- 3y
@HJOx For sure! For ERP I would watch videos under the bi or lesbian hashtag on tik tok and just make myself watch them without trying to figure out if i relate at all or determine if I’m attracted to those people. I think the hardest part is when you get a groinal response and your brain automatically links it to being gay but you just have to acknowledge that it happened and then just say “I don’t know why that happened, maybe it means something maybe it doesn’t, but I don’t need to figure it out!”. Also with this subtype just going out in public and interacting with those of the same sex is doing ERP. Interacting or looking at some of the same sex and then not trying to figure out if you’re sexually attracted to them is really good. Just keep yourself uncertain and then you’ll start to care less!!
HJOxHJOx
- Date posted
- 3y
@Anonymous See Im lucky and have never suffered with groin so responses! Thank god! The thing that halts my recovery is my brain creating future scenarios of the thoughts happening. If that makes sense? Don’t know if you experienced this too? X
AnonymousAnonymous
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- 3y
@HJOx Yeah! Do you mean things like “I’m going to still be having these thoughts on my wedding day and then I’ll feel so guilty I won’t be able to get married” I had that one a lot
HJOxHJOx
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- 3y
@Anonymous Yeah! Or like ‘if I go shopping today these thoughts will ruin my day’
YaBoioYaBoio
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- 3y
@HJOx Oh my I definitely have that has anyone been taught how to stop that ?
AnonymousAnonymous
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- 3y
@YaBoio They’ve just kinda started going away for me once I work on the root of my ocd
HJOxHJOx
- Date posted
- 3y
@Anonymous What did you find the root of your ocd was? Do you have instagram hun? X
HJOxHJOx
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- 3y
@Anonymous Just followed you hun! Il DM on there! X
Anon1294Anon1294
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- 3y
I feel like sometimes I’m in a really good space mentally, but honestly a lot of the time it’s because I’m focused on a less scary theme. I try to just stay in the moment
AnonymousAnonymous
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- 3y
The root was just dealing with the sexual orientation ocd, so once I got that under control everything just started getting better!
HJOxHJOx
- Date posted
- 3y
DM’d you on there hun! X
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