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- 5y ago
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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
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- 5y ago
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! :)
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- 5y ago
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.
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- 5y ago
Thank you both for the clarification! ?
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- 5y ago
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
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- 5y ago
It’s mostly out of insecurities too
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- 25w ago
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
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- 24w ago
I just want to know the difference of someone who is gay vs someone who is just questioning bc of ocd. Like would you hear I’m gay im gay over and over and over again in your head but it didn’t feel right? But when I say this is a waste of my time im of course straight it feels like im lying but I know im not attracted to women at all I am certain of that. But picking a label is what i can’t settle on so this is my ocd or not
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- 23w ago
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.
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