Has anyone else dealt with analyzing “emotions” (is this attraction, or is this anxiety, etc.) with their HOCD and what types of things helped you get through it or cope with it?

Is rumination. You have questioned everything that much that now you need everything to has a meaning now. Is actually like a child behaviour. Things not always need a meaning to be. Seriously, just stop the question once you start. You don't have to see if you like or dont like everything. Things just are. And you too.

1. You need to accept that we don't control our emotions. 2. Recognizing where is the uncertainty here. 3. With emotions we tend to have hidden cumpolsions 4. Is there anything else playing here ? Like Hyperawernes to 5. What is bothering me with the emotions? A. Is it that I'm doubting my identity B. Am I scared that I if I don't solve this "something bad might happen " And if I'm scared that something bad might happen, am I scared it will happen to me? Or to a loved one ? Or both. In my experience with emotions was like this. If I point a knife at myself |_ I wasn't scared I will lose emotional control and hurt myself. |_ if I point a knife at my father I also wasn't scared. But leave a knife on the table next to him than I'm scared that maybe because I left the knife on table he may hurt himself. So by me the emotions were more in relation to something happening for not taking enough responsibility. Now, what if it's not ocd? Like , what if this emotion is true ? So the answer is That has never happened. For a while I tried regulatiing my emotions by teqniques like guided imagiry and so on but you need to be careful with that because of analyzing/trying to figure out are mental reviewing cumpolsions that lead to endless rumination. Also, If you feel you are hyperfocused on the emotion / urge/ sensation/ muscle tension than it might be worth looking into a medication change I switched from Zoloft to Prozac and my emotions really started balancing out. My understanding is that medication really helps with black and white thinking so if a medication helps boost your mood your thinking in black and white will calm down and once you are less in the right left brain the emotion will balance out. Also trying to analyze/compare yourself to other emotions will never end. If it really gets bad you can try some emotional regulation tequniques like Emdr therapy, DBT & so on. But I would firts recommend identifying if your problem is with emotions or maybe you just need some guidance on where you are feeding the obssesion and it will regulate on its own. Please note I'm not a professional and nothing I said shall subsitue professional advice

It’s just weird. It’s like I can’t figure out what I’m feeling or what the emotions mean. Is it anxiety? Is it really attraction, but not sexual? I’m tired of playing these mind games. I would like to go back to not even thinking about this and know that I’m straight and not suddenly doubting myself or questioning it.

OCD and testing emotions can get very confusing. I have been dealing with this for a while but it's very treatable

Appreciate it the info. Curious if others have dealt with this specifically with HOCD.

Thanks for the responses.

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What is your suggestion to do?

i’ve had this but with pocd

I have hocd and this happens to me everyday. I question my identity all the time. As a woman, as a lover, as a friend, as a daughter, as being me... Is so tiring.