- Date posted
- 6y
- Date posted
- 6y
I understand. just don't try to convince your brain about anything related to thoughts. Let your brain do it's own thing. you have a great sense of imagination and that sometimes leads to thoughts that might be annoying for you. what our brain does is by no means under our control even if at times it seems to be true . I learned this the hard way.
- Date posted
- 6y
I used to fear it heavily, now I’m even doubting if I fear it or want it. When the thoughts feel extremely real I even have a gagging reflex. Yesterday I had a mental breakdown on how could I adore women and be so sure I was straight and now it felt like all this time I was lying to myself. It really disturbed me. The groin response don’t help either. I’m tired of dealing with this.
- Date posted
- 6y
I try to entertain the possibility that it might be true and my mind is like “it IS true” “no other options” “you’re gay and that’s it” it doesn’t even let me do the uncertainty thing. This is crazy.
- Date posted
- 6y
I think if you have a “fear” of being gay it’s OCD, and from the posts that both of you have been submitting, you’re both terrified of these types of “intrusive thoughts”. Just my own personal observation. Not reassurance just a comment. Here’s some reading- https://www.ocdbaltimore.com/hocd-sexual-orientation-ocd-denial/ https://psychcentral.com/ask-the-therapist/2015/09/06/homosexual-obsessive-compulsive-disorder-or-denial/
- Date posted
- 6y
I think when you drill down on the data (from people or articles) it can become an obsession. Also, if you’re searching for an answer you can sometimes create an answer in your mind to resolve the original question. I just know you’re both going through a lot of pain and distress over this stuff but ocd flips around a lot and at certain times it can be really strong. I think you need to let it run it’s course. Others on here seem to voice the same recommendations.
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- Date posted
- 23w
from the moment i wake up to the time i fall back asleep, my thoughts will not go a second without thinking about the same few topics. every second of every day for the past year i cannot stop thinking about my boyfriend. and no, not like "la dee da he's so cute!" no. it's the same thoughts of debating my feelings for him, convincing myself that im a lesbian but won't admit it to myself, convincing myself that i don't actually love him i just love the idea of a relationship with him. im disgusted with him but im passing it off as just i dont like that single flaw and thats fine. i can't stop. it's a broken record. my head is just a broken record. and for MULTIPLE YEARS pretty much since my ADHD diagnosis in middle school (i'm graduating this year) i haven't stopped thinking about mental health. relating every single thing in my life to the fact im neurodivergent. asking myself over and over if a thought i had or an action i made means im this personality, i have this mental disorder, because i have this traumatic memory that's influencing my choice. all day, every day, every second, multiple years. these thoughts are just constantly in my head. i want it to stop. i'm so tired of it. so absolutely exhausted. it's not even the compulsions or the anxiety, i just want the thoughts to end. all i could ask for, the thing i would give the world for, is to go a day without obsessively thinking these thoughts. to be able to experience a trigger but not be triggered. to be able to kiss my boyfriend goodbye and have my head move on to another topic for thought completely. to be able to hear a mental health topic be mentioned and not have the urge to explain every aspect of that topic, nor think about it for hours on end. be able to see random people on the street and accidentally make eye contact with them but not have to obsessively think of what their life is like, what they think of me, that they know i'm obsessively thinking about them and they hate me for that. i want to be able to see my ex friend around school whom im upset at the way things ended but not obsessively think about her and be disgusted and scared about those thoughts and her every move. i sound like a freak, i sound like i belong in a straitjacket, i know. i hate it too. so fucking much. i'm freaked out by myself, i know that if i were to share these thoughts at a podium i would be reported on the news and likely arrested because everyone around is terrified and will assume i will ever act. but i just want this to stop. i'm so desperately waiting for my next doctors appointment to ask for an up dose on my lexapro.
- Date posted
- 20w
Any one else deal with this? Like from the moment they wake up to the second they fall asleep, the intrusive thoughts are there?
- Date posted
- 8w
sometimes my brain is thinking of every thought you could have all at once and it makes me insane and i keep telling myself in my head to shut up and i try to stop thinking but it doesn’t stop
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