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You should set hanging out with your female best friend as an exposure
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I think there might be another explanation as to why you feel good about saying it aloud: it no longer has such a fearful grip on you that you think if you say it, it’s more likely to be true (magical thinking). You’ve habituated a degree of anxiety around this obsession and that’s something to be proud of. Don’t be scared it will rear it’s ugly head again- if it does you’ve got the skills to ride out the anxiety and habituate to it again
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- 6y ago
Thank you guys
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It’s just OCD playing tricks on you
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I know it all seems so real, but I used to have an obsession that scared me so much because it seemed so real. Then eventually it stopped seeming real, I had to talk back thousands of times and I ignored the thoughts, but it stopped.
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- 6y ago
they all seem so real, which is why they’re so scary!! if it was ocd at one point, then it’s always ocd. stay strong!!
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- 6y ago
Thanks guys it’s just really getting to me today! It feels like I would actually enjoy being gay!! I’m just so confused at the moment!
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- 6y ago
Sorry that I keep replying, I just thought of something. Maybe your not enjoying the thought of being gay, maybe your just enjoying thinking about having a companion (which wouldn’t be a girl, but since you’re afraid of that, OCD replaces your ideal companion with a girl to annoy you and scare you.)
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Please don’t apologise for replying it’s helping me so much! I’d not thought about it from that point of view, you see I’m anxious about going back to uni as there were a few girls on my course who triggered my thoughts when hocd first happened. I haven’t seen my girl best friends in months! And I miss them! I have my boyfriend and he makes a great companion but I only get to see him once or twice a week because of our distance, he’s also moving away for work for a month soon which keeps playing on my mind
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Its not real ocd does tricks with your brain
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- 25w 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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- 24w ago
Anyone else will just be doing anything normal and I’m gay comes in? It’s so distressing and I try and say ok sure ocd but the anxiety over takes me and my mind won’t let me believe I’m straight when I am. I love men I’m Not attracted to women but when I ask myself the doubt is for sure there which sounds like Casebook ocd. I’m just sick of this I don’t want to have to laugh at things in my head that don’t make any sense it’s so hard and unfair
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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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