Can someone explain to me the difference between HOCD and questioning your sexuality? I see several posts regarding fears about having romantic feelings towards the same sex and I wonder if that really means someone is gay and afraid to admit it to themselves? I’m not asking to be offensive, I really just don’t understand that form of OCD.

I suffer from HOCD, in the past I have questioned my secuality and been fine with it, I came to the conclusion that I was straight in the end. I am not the most manly man and this led to my friends insulting me with the insult of gay ( I am 17 and they are immature) this led me to constantly think about what I was doing that made me appear or seem gay and I think this is where my issue started. Me trying to look for why my friends were calling me names triggered a cycle of overthinking which my ocd took ahold of

It’s every similar. We are basically questioning our sexuality- the ones with hocd. It’s just that instead of just questioning we get so many thoughts about being the sexuality we are not. And it all started all of the sudden. We gain distress and anxiety form the thoughts, because most of the time they don’t feel like ourselves. Go to topics and press the sexual orientation ocd tab and press to learn more! :)

I also heard a quote recently that stated that “OCD latches onto what we fear the most.” I thought that was a very interesting quote.

Thank you both for the clarification! ?

I’m not sure if that’s true because some people have it around vomiting and things like that, I would be much more scared of getting aids than being gay. I think ocd takes advantage of current fears or things that you happen to think about quite a bit

It’s mostly out of insecurities too