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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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- 6y
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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- 6y
@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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- 19w
I never read someone talk about this so I wanted to know if it applies to anyone as well. For context: I deal with ROCD and SOCD but I do identify as straight and am in a (happy) relationship with a man. What often triggers me is memories about childhood and adolescences about having the groinal toward nudity in porn or music videos. Because I can’t deny having watched other things than straight porn and experimenting with porn I simply can’t stop trying to figure out what that might have meant and if i deep down have actually a other sexual orientation than the one that I feel comfortable identifying with. I only hear people talking about random triggers but never the REAL memory of arousal to pornography and so on.
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- 15w
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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- 14w
Hi everyone, I was sitting thinking about my ex texting me.. we are truly friends and haven’t thought about anything more between us.. but I was fantasizing about what he might be texting me about. I was thinking “oh maybe he is going to text me and say that he is still in love with me… or since he is bi-sexual, maybe he is going to tell me that he has HIV..” I immediately felt horrible because that is a stereotype about the gay community that is completely false and it was a horrible thing to think… I tried to say “that was a horrible thought to have and you have never had a thought like that before, just don’t do it again.” But I am so ashamed and my OCD is telling me that the bad guys is going to get me… can someone please assure me that I am not a terrible person? I know that we shouldn’t be seeking reassurance but I am struggling
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