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She’s trying to get you to accept the thoughts. It is the uncertainty of this obsession that makes all of us obsess so much. It is the possibility that one could be gay, she cannot tell you what you are. She is just saying you will never truly know, and that is okay. the more you tell your brain “who knows” the less the thoughts have value. Ik that it can be tough and words can be triggers but try to look at this with a new perspective and also inform her that saying things like that can trigger you. And maybe she’ll word them differently. Don’t let it get to your head!!
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Maybe what she dood was cracked OCD head on and your OCD is so not used to it. In the beginning when u start cutting out cumpolsion the thoughts fly by so quickly . The more insexure / confused you are now the better. Eventually the brain will get so confused that it will lose track of what's important and what's not and life will just take over. I swear
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I'll tell her in the next session. Thank you both ♡ you help me to see it with another perspective.
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I feel the same way. Today my therapist told me a story of a man that wasn’t gay but was super attracted to muscles that he started having sex with men. It wasn’t for the men but the muscles. He was a happily married straight man. I wanted to be like why the hell are you telling me this!!!!
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I can relate to all of you. I have an appt tomorrow and already worried. Let’s stay strong.
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Thanks. Good luck!
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One of the cornerstones of OCD is the need to be 100% certain about things. When we can't be, we break down. But we can't be 100% certain about anything really, so the only way to cope long term is to learn to accept that there will always be uncertainty. That is what your therapist is trying to do here. We all go into therapy wanting to be fine - and we know that being certain about things would make us feel fine, so the natural response to sexual orientation OCD, which is rooted in your own head, is to try and get the professional analyser of how your head works to confirm that your thoughts don't mean anything and provide certainty that all is well. Which is giving in to OCD, not treating it. In reality, we have to learn to live with uncertainty - it's an exposure, just like touching something dirty is with contamination OCD. That means you have to make yourself feel uncertain (and really crappy) so that, over time, that experience gets less difficult with familiarity. This is horrible, but the research is there to show that, like other types of exposure, things will get better.
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Good luck everyone! We can do this!
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Thank you for the information ♡
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I feel awful that I keep coming on here whenever I’m down bad but oh my gosh OCD is the most painful shit that I have EVER experienced in my life and I have a physical chronic illness…. I hate to say it but I hate living right now it’s too painful… im crying as I type to the point where my stomach is hurting, I have pretty severe ocd I do have generalized anxiety and idk if that is connected with ocd but because of that I have most of the subtypes REAL EVENT OCD,POCD,ZOCD,ROCD,SOCD HARM OCD, you name it and I got it!!! a lot of also why I have have those theme is trauma growing up and involving those things^ as of right now i’m 25 and a women with the most loving boyfriend in the entire world before my ocd hit me I NEVER questioned my love and care and attraction with the love of my life I always knew I was going to marry and be with this person the rest of my life! Now with ocd it confuses me soooo much and now I think I’m gay and didn’t realize or indenial and listen I get it “don’t look for reassurance!” “It’s not the thing ocd is attacking that is the problem ocd is the actual problem!” Here’s the thing with that if I’m in a relationship and I’m gay that would mean I would have to leave that said relationship and to say that “oh yeah that stuff happens and you’ll move on” is absolutely devastating to me this is THE LOVE OF MY LIFE and your telling me that iv been lying to myself this whole time or that I didn’t realize?!?!? And that sexuality can change (even though some say it can’t google says otherwise and some people have said it can’t idek anymore) and all this other BULLSHIT I can’t take it WHY?!?! why does this have to happen why can’t I just be with my love the rest of my life?!? and yes before anyone says anything I have been attracted to girls more so when I was younger watching lesbian porn liking the body’s and fantazing them sexually it stopped when I got older but I still don’t get disgusted with women who are pretty it just makes me uncomfortable because I’m with the love of my life and before I remember talking to my partner and discussing certain childhood things I experienced and we discussed that we both could be a little bi and for certain I’m (demi sexual so I don’t even really care about looks) and I truly didn’t care!! NOW I do care even with being bi because again I don’t like thinking about anyone else but my partner but I do also know my parents are homophobic and I do think about if I am gay they wouldn’t be okay with that and I also dont want to deal with that so now I sound like in indenial right?!???? I didn’t even care about labels before my ocd it just didn’t matter but now it’s effected my sex life and it’s hard for me to enjoy sex with being so confused I’m so confused I googled everything can you still have sexual fantasies with same gender but still be straight? Can you fantasize about same gender or imagine marrying them all of it !!! And non of that disgusts me it just makes me uncomfortable AGIAN only bc I just love the partner I’m with right now!!! I’m so fucking confused do I have to leave my partner and accept that I’m gay is that going to happen in the future if I get better with ocd and find out it’s been true all along?!???
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I cant afford therapy which is why i’m not diagnosed with ocd. The first time i had heard what ocd was truly abt was 6 years ago when i overthinking my sexual identity and it fit. Additionally, i struggle with debilitating health anxiety and when i was in a rlt i was extremely anxious that i might not love my partner. This is the third year i experience distress around my sexuality but this year it feels real. And it could also explain my rlt anxiety. Comphet is a concept that really scares me. I dont want to be with a girl. I would rather die than discover i was lesbian. I cant accept uncertainty cz i dont want to be homosexual. Chat GPT told me it wasnt ocd + the thoughts dont distress me anymore. I experience 3 intense weeks of anxiety prior to now. Maybe its internalized homophobia. Maybe its comphet. I do find women to be attractive but i dont wanna be with them. Maybe i’m in denial. Idk anything anymore. I’m remembering times where i would find an actress attractive and try to shift my focus towards the man cz it would make me anxious. I’m not well at all.
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Today I had my first appointment with my new therapist in a clinic and she told me that my thoughts could be because of my past trauma and that it’s what makes most people pedos. I’m so in distress right now, I don’t want to hurt people but she made me feel like I’m disgusting
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