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- 6y ago
- Date posted
- 6y ago
I wish we could see things how others do. Reading this I almost laughed because it’s so ridiculous. I only say this from a place of utmost understanding! I thought I was a lesbian for YEARS. Until one day I accepted it, fully accepted that you know what I like girls and I’m still me and I still love me. And just like that my OCD over being a lesbian was GONE. I know we aren’t supposed to reassure people but reassurance helps me personally, I hope me telling you this does the same for you ?
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- 6y ago
The purpose of acceptance is to acknowledge that OCD thoughts are happening but not to accept the meaning of the thoughts. You don't have to be afraid OCD thoughts will take over and force you to do anything. The point of acceptance is to say ok these intrusive thoughts happen but I won't give them any more of my attention. They mean nothing and I don't have to analyze or figure them out. Let the thoughts pass by like clouds attaching no meaning to them. Then redirect your thoughts to things you truly want to focus on.
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- Date posted
- 6y ago
I used to do this when I was younger, before I knew I had OCD. When I accepted that I might be a lesbian, all the thoughts eventually went away because I wasn't giving importance to them. I, too, was completely convinced I was a lesbian and might as well accept it. Maybe I am, who knows, but probably not considering I've never chosen to be with a woman in real life. Point is - just because it feels real doesn't mean it is. And you're on an OCD support site, so I'm assuming you have OCD or are considering that you might, which indicates to me that this is more of a fear than reality. Hang in there and just try to give it all less importance
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- 6y ago
The thoughts are extremely scary and deceiving but if they give you anxiety and you would rather not have the thoughts then it is still OCD. If you're just concerned about family/societal acceptance or navigating new relationships then that could be different but I think the OCD thoughts are just working really hard to confuse you.
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- Date posted
- 6y ago
^^
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- Date posted
- 6y ago
Actions are what are real. If you hook up with a girl and like it and have no fear associated with it, you're a lesbian and that's fine and you'd be fine with it too. But since you're on this support site upset about it, that's not the case.
- Date posted
- 6y ago
Ok so why do you think youre a lesbian? Is it physical sensation based and fear based or is it that youve never been atracted to the opposite sex? Are you giving in because you're exhausted from being afraid or because it feels right and freeing to be who you are because who you are feels good (not sad and scary and inevitable). Did you know that it's normal to feel a sensation that is similar to a sexual turn on. That is what makes sexual ocd so difficult. But a therapist has told me that it is not a "turn on" but a "groinial sexual response" aka sexual anxiety. There are reasons for this happening that have to do with trauma and many times sexual trauma from sexual abuse of some sort. Even smaller acts of sexual abuse that don't include touch can be enough to cause this trauma. The sexual anxiety is a physical sensation that is alerting you and expressing your fear of being aroused. The more you focus on your fear though the more ocd creeps in so try to rest and know you are not your thoughts. Sometimes a thought belongs to someone else you knew. In my case my therapist told me it is my old abusers thought. Sexual ocd is based around fears of being a sexual abuser or doing or wanting something sexual that you don't actually want. You know you wouldn't but your mind tries to convince you otherwise. The ocd mind is always thinking that we don't have control but we do. We are not our minds and we don't have to play along. We can heal.
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- 6y ago
If it's not real then it's not an easy way out because it won't work
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- 6y ago
I've met girls who started dating women because they had trauma in their life and anxiety disorders etc and they actually lived it and it was just a lie. They just hurt themselves more that way because eventually they realized they were just afraid of males. A male abuser had raped or abused them and so they went toward women not realising that women can be abusive too. Sigh If we have ocd symptoms and we take the ocd tests and know we gave ocd then we should just logically try to know that we are not actually gay but we are suffering from ocd. I'm so sorry your mind has been so mean. Just know you are not your thoughts and your thoughts are not you. We're you ever sexually abused? You don't have to answer just know that sexual abuse is commonly why sexual ocd occurs.
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- 6y ago
@Eripley8- did the girls you are taking about experience some sort of enjoyment/ satisfaction through those relationships or was it an entirely negative experience while in the relationship?
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- 6y ago
That’s what I’m saying, just accept it. If You are a lesbian who cares? The answer is you care, thats why you’re having this specific type of OCD. When you realize you can be a wonderful human and be a lesbian, those thoughts will most likely go away ?
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- 19w ago
I feel so sad, alone, scared and hopeless. Until two months ago there was not even the remote possibility of being anything other than heterosexual and now the idea that I could find out that I was lesbian or bisexual terrifies me to death. Everything was born from the fact that I didn't feel sexual desire towards my ex-boyfriend and I started to be afraid that it was because I was a lesbian... how can I be a lesbian or bisexual if everything was born from this? I would like to run away from myself and my head. I would really like to go back and go back to my life before. I can't take it anymore. I just want to live my life like before
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- 15w ago
Idk what else to title this. I was watching a film cooper video cuz why not and he mentioned smthn about wall paper customization and icons and stuff and I just kinda had a groinal response followed by the memory of me having my first crush on a woman (my friend at the time) that helped me figure out that I’m bi and I felt kinda intensely for her but that’s cuz a) it was new and b) we were kinda on again off again friends who haven’t spoken in a few years now and I’m over her entirely. It was toxic I think. She was too much like the person who bullied me in elementary school (they were friends as well so my mom made me cut her off which is. Fair. Made me really sad but eh that’s life) I saw her at prom cuz someone brought her. It was nice to see her but yeah that was it. And now I’m mentally comparing what I felt for women in the past (idk intense crush, listening to a lot of gay songs (think she by dodie) dressing semi masc cuz funky, we had nicknames for each other despite not dating or anything) to men (less intense crush but still big crush, I’ve only dated and kissed men so sparks rhere) and now I’m just slightly nauseous and worried that I don’t like men as much as I like women but I think that’s normal for any bi person? To have different levels of attraction to different genders? Idk I feel gross and icky now like I shouldn’t even be thinking about it or her cuz I have a bf. And I do look fondly upon it, now I’m nervous cuz I got more excited about her calling me a specific nickname than I do from my bf calling me honey even at the beginning? Honey felt more traditional and I love it but we do switch around nicknames and it’s always nice, not many butterflies anymore, and sometimes I get anxious when he does lately, if it’s a nickname in Portuguese. Or if he called me a shortened version of my name. What does that mean? I’m nervous now. I was doing half decently today now I’m nauseous again. I’m worried that cuz I liked the nicknames she and I had that means I don’t like the ones my bf and I have and that I just don’t like him or men cuz I’ve been feeling off around him. But I love when he calls me honey, it still feels good when he does it now but no butterflies. Idk what’s wrong with me. Is it even ocd at this point. Even if I do like women slightly more it doesn’t erase that I love my bf. I’m worried I’m leaning too much towards women tho and I’m a lesbian. Idk if my bi cycle is cycling or if I’m just a lesbian entirely cuz I don’t feel much when my bf takes off his shirt, sex feels different, and things feel stale and slow. But maybe that’s cuz I’m checking and comparing. Now I’m anxious fuck. I’m trying not to think about her idk why. I’m worried I still find her attractive or am attracted to her or smthn. She’s in my city. I didn’t care before but now I do. Or if I think about her I’ll think about other women and will only want to have sec with women which not really tbh. I wanna be able to enjoy sec with my bf. It just hasn’t felt right lately cuz I’ve been so depressed and obsessive. I wasn’t obsessing much last night when we had sex but it still didn’t feel passionate. It didn’t feel uncomfortable but I thought it’d be more? Idk. I know it’s normal to not feel him inside me cuz the vagina isn’t very nerved up compared to the clitoris but it felt like more the motions. But tbh. I needed it. Idk I wanted to have sex and it was a nice stress relief. I just didn’t feel butterflies which kinda bummed me out but we’ve been having sex since august so that’s normal. Idk. I haven’t been able to fantasize about sex. The fact that I’m bi makes all of this so confusing. Cuz yes hypothetically I can enjoy the thought of sex with a woman. But I don’t want to rn cuz I’m dating a man. And I can’t fantasize about sex with him cuz I’m getting intrusive thoughts about my friends and I having sex. I have this urge to watch porn cuz it’s been a while but I’m not going to. I’ve cut down a lot on masturbation. Partially cuz this partially cuz I wanna do things with my bf (when I’m mentally ok) but jow my brain is saying “Oo you think all these women are so hot you’re gonna go feral blah blah blah” and yes women are hot but I don’t wanna have sex with a woman. Idk saying women are hot doesn’t bring me anxiety but the thought of sex with one or leaving my bf and saying I’m a lesbian bother me. Cuz I know it’s not true. I love him I know that. I’d be happy if we stayed together. I wouldn’t regret a thing honestly. I like having sex with him. Idc if it’s not like porn or the movies. As long as I’m being pleasured and he’s being pleasured we’re good. That’s what sex is about. I think the loss of butterflies is normal cuz the excitement of like (sorry tmi) fingering and oral eventually wears off right? But still feels good. I don’t feel as excited about intimacy anymore cuz we have done it so often but it still feels nice. But my brain perceives that as me not liking sex with men and therefore I’m gay. No I just don’t feel the need to jump his bones every single time I see him?? Idk the friend thing is bothering me. Idk if I feel any joy behind it. The groinal response really really throws my perception off
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- Date posted
- 11w ago
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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