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- idont241
- Date posted
- 5y ago
I don't really know what to tell you except that I have felt this way too. I have gotten a lot better, then regressed, and gone back and forth. I thought I was cured, so I found a girl I fell head over heels in love for and she cheated on me. Then my mind went haywire. Oh she cheated on you cause she knows you're gay. You secretly wanted this to happen, it's so bizarre. I've been doing my own ERP for the past few months and substantially changed my diet. I am feeling a lot better again. Today I felt so attracted to my coworker and I really want to ask her out, but I feel I'm not healed enough yet. I wish we can start a group chat where we can be accountability partners for ERP and share our progress.
I listened to gay podcasts. Where the host is gay and talks about sexuality in society. I try to spend more time around my gay coworkers. I watch movies with actors that I know trigger me. I tell myself. Okay 10 years is enough. It's time to stop. I am now certain this is the OCD and you are just malfunctioning. You can retrain your mind to be how it once was. Sit with this anxiety and it will pass. Don't check, just let them pass. They will eventually stop. I just self talk myself in this way and it seems to be helping. I'll share more if I am able to make more progress
Ok thank you for that!
If they don't add a group chat function on this app, I think I might start an online chat for those who are strictly dealing with HOCD so we can keep track of one another. We can still remain anonymous if desired. I'll look into how I can do that
That will be great! Some of us are in an ocd group chat on kik. Maybe another one on kik? You Can create and account
What are some ERP things you do to help with hocd @icandothis??
I don't have kick but I'll get it. Is it strictly for hocd?
Not really. But we can find more people for it to be only hocd!
So looks like I’ve hit a wall I haven’t hit ever with this ocd. If you can even call it ocd. I genuinely feel confused. Idk what’s real or not. Idk what my mind or body wants. I feel so stressed out. My thoughts don’t give me anxiety anymore and sometimes it genuinely feels like I want it and I’m just hiding it. I don’t get it. I even lost attraction to this girl I was madly interested in. I don’t know what to do anymore really. I see any dude and my mind automatically starts thinking “you’re attracted to him” literally every single guy I see. I’m not even kidding. I really don’t get what’s going on with me. I haven’t been diagnosed yet because there are no ocd specialists in my area. My mom told me once she thinks she has ocd and my aunt as well. But their ocd seems more like the “traditional” type of ocd where you can actually see their compulsions. I think I struggled from Religious ocd a few years back. Also with my ex girlfriend there was a period where I struggled with ROCD I believe but got over it. Now Hocd has definitely been the worst and what makes it worse is that I actually had a gay experience but even after that I didn’t question my sexuality. I maybe would get the ocasional “you’re gay” thought but wouldn’t pay it attention and it just went away. But now it just can’t leave my head. This has been going on since February. I used to be crazy for women, don’t know what’s wrong with me. I even had sex with the girl I really like about 2 weeks ago and really enjoyed it! But now my attraction for her seemingly disappeared out of nowhere when this hocd bull starts acting up again. I’m so tired of this.
This feels weird. I feel like I’m gay, and when I “accept” My thoughts I don’t feel good or pleasure, just this weight on my chest. Like my mind says “okay you’re gay see” but when I think of me in gay scenarios I feel no pleasure at all. Yet I lost my attraction to women. My mind still says I’m gay though I feel nothing towards men. But it appears my attraction to women disappeared as well. What is this? Why did I used to have extremely mad anxiety over gay thoughts and now that I finally faced my thoughts I feel nothing as well? Like seriously what is this. I used to be girl crazy like to another level. Now I’m not attracted to women at all apparently but when I “accept” my thoughts and say ok I’m gay, I feel nothing towards men either. Is this still ocd? And why when I do have anxiety with gay thoughts it seems like I AM attracted to men. I don’t understand this. Do any of you have any experience and share some insight?
Everyday this is starting to feel less and less like ocd. I constantly feel anxious. So here’s how it goes Every single girl I see I worry “what if I am attracted to them” If I am not attracted to every guy i see I feel guilty I can’t imagine myself with a guy anymore Can’t imagine myself with a girl either (but for some reason it’s telling me I would love that) I feel sick all the time I constantly feel anxious I have so many what if questions I worry that this may have been me all along I was just unknowingly suppressing it I worry that all my past crushes weren’t real I feel anxious towards any girl now I feel like I am never going to love a guy again I feel like my case is different, that mine is real I can’t tell whether I feel aroused or disgusted by the thoughts The thoughts don’t leave my head and I’m constantly anxious. I am not attracted to women I am not attracted to men anymore This sparked up all of the sudden I can’t tell whether I actually want to be with a women I can’t imagine my future without the thoughts coming I feel different than anyone else That fact that I am even having the thoughts makes me anxious I can’t think a girl is pretty without immediately thinking what if I am attracted to them For some reason I am convinced I am a lesbian all of the sudden Can’t imagine myself with a guy anymore. Can’t tell if I’m in the closet Feel so anxious Does this sound in any way like ocd?
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