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

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