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Sex ocd
I overthink during sex and I can’t tell if its ocd or im gay. Im getting married and im so scared..what if i cannot satisfy her? What if i find out im gay?? Im horrified
I overthink during sex and I can’t tell if its ocd or im gay. Im getting married and im so scared..what if i cannot satisfy her? What if i find out im gay?? Im horrified
These types of things may seem so scary. I recommend accepting what it is that you’re going through. Not necessarily agreeing with the thoughts, but recognizing that they’re there. OCD is known as the doubting disorder. The first time I had SO-OCD was when I was 21; I was dating a girl and I had ROCD which lead into the SO-OCD. We broke up, my attraction to women came back even stronger. That success lasted for about 6 years. I’m 29 now, I have a girlfriend I love, now it’s happening again. I had ROCD with her for a year, now it transformed into SO-OCD. The best way to beat this, is to surrender to it.
Hi! I understand, I’m going through the same thing. You’re over attending to what you’re feeling right now. Also, keep in mind, no one, with any certainty, understands their sexuality 100%. Anyone, at any time, can fall in love with someone of the same gender at any given moment. Try your best to not overthink. I am going through the same exact thing. Intimacy is built upon way more than sex. Sex is 90% of a bad relationship, 10% of a great one.
I know what you’re going through. I got married in October and was having the same thoughts. It’s like not only do you feel bad about the OCD and the thoughts but you feel so guilty for having those thoughts during that time. My biggest fear is waking up one day and realizing that I was gay my whole life and then having to leave my husband. When I told my therapist about it she said your OCD will attack your core values and I found some solace in that because it just shows one of my core values is being loyal to my relationship. I know it’s so hard, but if it’s giving you the most intense anxiety you’ve ever felt in your life and it’s all you think and ruminate about, it’s probably just OCD. Unfortunately, you have to retrain your brain to not react to those thoughts and accept uncertainty. My husband knows all about my SO-OCD and he loves me regardless. We got married and it was the best day of my life!!
Thanks. I am so sad about this and knowing im not alone makes me feel better
So just hang in there, try to get some help, and things will slow down
You'll be OK. Try to sit with the thoughts and anxiety and you'll de-sensitize over time. Do exposure therapy exercises and you'll improve. Remember to treat thoughts like this that come at the most inappropriate time and that cause you as anxiety as OCD thoughts from the get go. Keep them in context. Good luck.
Sometimes I think " do I like kids?" "Would i get aroused if I saw content with kids?""What if I'm a pedo and cant accept it?" "What if I'm ok with these thoughts?" "What if I'm not distressed enough " "What if I enjoy these thoughts?" , i avoid kids as much as i can, i cant look at them bc I'm scared I'm gonna have some groin like response. I keep testing if I'd get turned on or if I'd have some groinal response to sexual scenarios with kids. Sometimes I think that if I took my life this would be over and i wouldn't have to think about this and i wish i doubted something else instead of things like this. I had similar situations just with different topics such as if i loved or found sexually appealing a guy while in a relationship and i kept asking myself those questions for months and i avoided going to school for weeks and when I went I'd cry and have anxiety attacks. I had it with past actions i obessed over and felt the need to exploit every detail and be honest because otherwise i was being a fraud. I had it for sexual things that happened when i was a child. Im not diagnosed with ocd but should i tell this to my local counselor? Can someone help? Give me advice or tell me anything?
I’m 25 and never ever thought this before my soocd relapse. I have a bf of 5 years. Never been a high libido kinda girl. Don’t get me wrong I do get turned on by my bf but not like every day you know? - That had always been in the back of my head, is this normal and ok? But my ocd has latched onto the most scariest what if EVER. My brain is now saying How do you know you won’t prefer to sleep and kiss girls if you haven’t tried it: and it’s that unknown that is scaring the shit out of me. I DONT AND NEVER HAVE wanted to sleep / kiss a girl. But now my intrusive thoughts is all I think about!!! I don’t want I don’t want I don’t want??? So why does my brain think BUT WHAT IF??? I know ocd thrives off uncertainty which is why I think this is happening? But I don’t wanna find out or work it out because all I want is to be with my bf and marry him!! Is this just the epitome of OCD?
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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