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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.
Does anyone with so ocd get scared or feel like they r just going to suddenly realise they r gay. Like all of a sudden you’ll be like omg I’m gay and then I get scared like ong it’s happening to me Can any relate to this
Ok so I’m a 17 year old female, and I’ve always thought I was straight. But I just really want to know how you would know the difference between so-ocd and actually questioning your sexuality. I have nothing against the LGBTQ community (in fact I am very much a token straight friend, lol) but I saw a video about comp-het recently and it sort of felt like what I was experiencing. I don’t want to be gay, I want to be with men, I want to like men, I’ve always liked men, but now I’m questioning whether or not that’s real? Because people can be gay but not want to be right? I’m single and I always have been. I think women are gorgeous, but when I try to imagine actually having any sort of romantic or sexual relationship with a woman it feels wrong, at least most of the time it does? Sometimes I’m less sure, and I’ve never been particularly boy crazy. I’ve liked maybe 2 or 3 people in my life, (not to say I’ve never found other guys attractive, but it doesn’t seem to be as often as most people) I have no particular reason to be afraid of being gay, very supportive family, safe area ect, but I don’t want to be, does that mean this is ocd, I don’t know what’s going on every time I say I’m straight I feel like I’m lying, but that might just be because I think about it so much. The idea of being with a woman doesn’t feel like something I would want, but is that just because I don’t want to want it? People online say things with so much sureness, if you feel like this it means this. Ect.
I’ve had so many moments of clarity with my OCD that I love my boyfriend and I’m beyond willing to go through this to be better and be with him. in the back of mind I’ve in a way known I was at least somewhat sexually attracted to women (I’m a woman) since the start of the ocd it was always like “okay. Fine, but I don’t want to date a girl” I only just realized this after the ocd started, I never really argued with this. my ocd has always revolved around if I’m romantically interested in women and not men. I’ve done so many compulsions through this year and a half and 9 times out of 10 have come to the conclusion that I don’t want to be with a woman romantically. I always end up feeling like I know I love my boyfriend. But the doubts don’t stop about whether I want to spend my life with a woman instead, my heart literally breaks to think of not being with my bf and imagining him with someone else. I don’t want to be with a woman I know deep down somewhere underneath the anxiety that that’s not what I want. It doesn’t feel natural for me, unfulfilling. I want to tell my boyfriend about the possible sexual attraction to women (ik it’s still ocd related) but I’m scared that once I tell him, I’ll realize that I actually do want to be with women and not with him. Ugh I’ve spent hours today ruminating about this after being solid in my commitment with him for a little while, I’m stuck in this loop and idk how to get out right now
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