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I'll start this one off. I use to have this ocd. I seem to go from one ocd to the other. But this I use to struggle with. I use to think I was a lesbian. And I'd obsess about it every day. My family hates gay people, so back then it was the worst thing I could think of that I could be. (I completely accept gay people, just my family doesn't, some of them). I use to think my family would find out. I'd never like any posts related to being gay, I felt uncomfortable around gay people. I was so convinced I was a lesbian. I felt like I was faking my attraction towards men. Well, now, I am over this ocd. I like more posts about gay people, even share them. I experimented with a friend of mine, and I now realise I am not even an ounce lesbian. I can appreciate a womans beauty, and now I'm comfortable being straight, I would even kiss a girl and not feel confused. Maybe I'll even do some more experimenting, letting them know that's all I'm wanting. Because I know I'm straight and I'm comfortable being straight.
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I was afraid of sex as a young person for my own reasons, but my brain is obsessed with the fact that it thinks im into women. My body doesnt respond to them sexually, but my brain keeps basically holding me at gunpoint telling me im actually repressing my "real urges and desires". It forces me to think about kissing them, doing sexual things with them and it only kills my libido, makes me sad, and anxious. I never sought out porn of women ever in the past because it just never aroused me or interested me. (Im a gay man before anyone gets nervous). My intrusive thoughts are always about how, because of my rocky dating past and fear of sex as a young person (that i had for good reason) that im just "repressing my true nature". I apparently have a crush on every woman i know, and its all just viciously strong anxiety. No matter what i do my brain just keeps telling me ill "unlock the secret to my attraction" nd that "im the one thats keeping it from fully forming". Theres so much, but it just feels like my brain literally will not allow me to think about men anymore and it drives me insane.
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- 6y
Thank you so much for sharing that!!! I’m so happy that you were able to work through that. Just to be safe though for anyone else- that might not be the best way to handle it (just because it could become even more confusing/ cause more obsessions). But I am SO glad you were able to overcome these obsessions!!❤️❤️
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I handled it before I experimented. I knew I liked guys again when my anxiety lowered with my second boyfriend. So I was 100% sure that I wasn't totally lesbian at that point. I stopped obsessing about it 8 months ago roughly. But only recently I realised I'm straight. I'm almost 20 and I had those thoughts since I was 8 up until 8 months ago... Thanks for all these posts, I feel like these will help a lot of people ❤️❤️❤️
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- 6y
Oh yeah, I'll add as well that it all started when I hated my body. I prayed and said I absolutely hated my vagina and I don't know how a boy could ever like me. That was as young as 8. I prayed that I would start to understand why men like women and I'd start to love my own female body. So that's when I started to become attracted to the same sex. It got more real from 12 upwards and day in day out all that kept popping into my head was I am a lesbian and I'm ganna end up having no kids and my family will desert me. Now if I thought I was a lesbian, I wouldn't feel as bad as I did back then about it. People either accept you or they don't. I also may add that to be honest, thinking I was just a lesbian for all those years has made me appreciate my body much more.
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- 4y
hey do you still have this app?
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- 6y
@Gfaux Thank you so much for sharing that. I know tons of people, including myself, relate to all of that. It’s agonizing, but not impossible to heal from. I’m doing it with you❤️
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@MissLovely I’m sorry- I misunderstood! That is such a long time to be battling with this. I can relate to so many things you’ve said- thank you for being my inspiration!!
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- 6y
My gender and sexuality can feel completely incompatible, like who I need to be as a person and the kind of people I want to be around don’t have any overlap, so that sucks. Thinking about letting anyone regardless of gender see my body as me or try to get through my barriers or even be attracted to my body makes me so scared and uncomfortable. Sexual intrusive thoughts mess it up further :/
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- 6y
I used to obsess about being a virgin and that I would never be appealing to anyone bc of it. That then transformed into me forcing myself to look at other women to figure out if I was gay or not.
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- 13w
I need too know that I'm not insane, really. I am 16 and for the past two weeks, this has been completely ruining my health and happiness. I only recently came out as a lesbian like 3 months ago after a lot of confusion about my attraction since I used to think I liked men. At first, I felt so sure that I liked women, but lately, I've been having these unwanted thoughts about the possibility of liking men. I never used to feel this way, but now, every time I look at a man, my brain obsessively fixates on it. It forces me to imagine kissing him, loving him, things I don’t want, and then tries to convince me that I do. It’s painful. The thought of this fills me with fear and anxiety, leading to panic attacks and breakdowns. I don’t want these thoughts. I hate them with every fiber of my being, but I’m terrified that one day I’ll act on them and somehow like it. I used to think I liked men, but back then, I was in a very unhealthy space in a time of escapism and something deeply parasocial. I’ve only ever liked the attention and validation a man could give me, but these experiences are somehow treated as further proof that I’m "bisexual." I’ve never been in a real relationship with anyone, which makes my brain constantly challenge me—telling me, “You don’t even know what love feels like.” It won’t shut up. It keeps obsessively trying to make me prove that I’m a lesbian, testing my reactions and questioning my certainty. Is this normal?
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- 13w
As a lesbian with SO-OCD, I feel so helpless. It's truly exhausting because no one I know understands what I'm going through. The first response is always, "You're just confused" or "You don't have to know yet." But that's not the issue, I do know. I just never see any lesbians with SO-OCD so I feel so invalidated. These thoughts flood my brain constantly, forcing me to analyze my reactions to every man I see. I feel trapped in an endless cycle of "testing" myself, trying to prove that I don't like them. But my brain fights back, telling me I do want to love a man, making it feel real even though don't want it. It's terrifying. At this point, it's hard to even hold onto my identity as a lesbian because I'm so overwhelmed. I don't know if this is what real attraction is supposed to feel like, and that fear eats away at me. The truth is, when I think about being with a man, all I feel is disgust and fear-but my brain twists that into doubt. I hate it. I'm at the point where I'm scared I'm going to have to accept something I don't want because I don't know if this will ever go away. I miss who I was before all this.
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- 6w
I can't look at 18+ videos, comics, etc. I am straight, but SO-OCD tries to make me think I am not And the thoughts turns to feelings, and makes me scared, uncomfortable, sad, because I know this is not me. And when I try to imagine myself being with the woman on adult videos, and comics, my OCD gives gronal response not at the girl, and it fills me with fear, and anxiety, I always loved, and was attracted to women but I can't and it caused me to be depressed, and I keep ruminating I keep trying to focus on her, but it's so bad that I avoid those all the time now. I am wondering has anyone gone through something like this, or currently is, and wondering how you have done to combat this!
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