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- idont241
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Yes I am at moment I am still suffering with it to a degree but it isn’t stopping me having a fulfilling loving relationship with my girlfriend. It’s helped me to realise that the content of OCD is crap. Regardless of the specific theme it always has the same pattern of doubt and feeling like I need to be certain about something be that my sexuality or wether or not I have hurt someone. Doing the opposite of what it wants me to do i.e embracing doubt and accepting the uncertainty has helped me a lot. You are not alone and you can overcome this
Ocd makes you feel like that, it's normal. Remember that you and almost every single person thinks they're an exception in ocd. It will try its best to try to get in your mind. It's trying to convince you, so the thoughts are naturally going to be convincing. You can't give them much space, just say whatever, I'll deal with this later.
There's an YouTube called Chrissie Hodges. She dealt with hocd when she was a teen and is dating a guy nowadays!
Thank you everyone for this
I’ve heard of her! Well, great. Nice to know there is a way!
Oh, and I've read about another woman that also recovered from hocd, and she talked about her sexuality so confidently. She was 100% sure she was straight, and at the same time, was confident enough to say that she found women attractive. But still, she was straight, and sure of it. It was an interview, and she answered many questions readers made. Me being me didn't save the website, And now I can't find it anymore, unfortunately. What matter though, is that she went through the same thing as us, and nowadays is completely over it!
I don’t want to date anyone now. OCD made me not confident enough to love someone while I know I’m not the way ocd compels me to think I’m :(
I currently just got out of a relationship. Whenever a woman is a bitch to me, it makes my ocd worse. "See you don't even like women." She ended up cheating on me and now I feel kind of mentally castrated. There is a wonderful woman at work that seems like the girl of my dreams, but I also feel numb. I am really trying to do erp right now because I don't want to deal with this while pursuing her. I hope 3 months of serious erp will help me enough to try again.
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Oh, I saw that! It just feels as if my case is different sometimes. It feels as if mine is real or that I feel different than those who have recovered :(
is anyone in the same position as me?? I’ve 100% felt sexual attraction to both men and women but there’s just a part of me that’s so convinced I’m gay even though I’ve felt attracted to men so many times. I always hear people talk about being exclusively straight or gay with HOCD, but does anyone else exist on the bi spectrum who also has HOCD?
So my hocd started over 2 years ago (I’m 20 yrs old now), when I was having a conversation with one of my friends and the thought popped into the back of my head what if the reason I don’t have a crush on any guys at my high school is because I’m a lesbian. Since then my sexuality has been on my mind 24/7 I didn’t know this was ocd until about a year ago but i’m only seeking treatment now. The hocd ramped up when I felt super aroused watching a movie with topless women, something that had never happened when watching men. Thing is I genuinely think I’m gay now, I’ve had this for so long that at first the thoughts disgusted me and caused me anxiety but now they don’t anymore. I saw so many tiktok videos about “pipelines” of certain interests gay people have that triggered me and read the comphet masterdoc which made me cry when I read it because I related to so much of it. When I was a child I was never boy crazy, I never really crushed on boys in my class (to be fair there were only 7) however I do remember writing a love note to a boy in first grade and having an immense celebrity crush on a disney channel star. I remember to certain things I did as a child that lead me to think I am gay and they keep replaying over and over in my head. Thing is over the past year I’ve had crushes on 3 guys I’ve met through dating apps. The last one I actually hung out with and I had my first kiss/makeout session 2 months ago. After that my hocd calmed down I enjoyed kissing him it felt euphoric the whole drive home just replaying our dates in my head. But now I can’t get the thought out of my head what if I didn’t like it enough? I didn’t get butterflies when we kissed (i do when I think back about it though) and didnt feel super aroused like that time I watched that movie. I feel nothing when I look at pictures and videos of men but with women I started getting this warm feeling in my chest which stressed me out even more. Idk what I am anymore and it is driving me insane. Does anyone relate?
Today it feels super real and that my whole entire life is a lie. Like I'm only staying with my boyfriend because I don't want to hurt him and one day i'm going to give up and have to forget my previous straight self. Oh the misery....if any woman have recovered from so-ocd please give me some insights. Bisexual I can for sure handle but never liking men again or not getting to be with my boyfriend actually feels like a death sentence.
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