False Attractions?

What exactly to false attractions feel like? I was doing good today and I pulled up an article of some new elected politicians and looked a picture of one of them and immediately my heart started racing and I was filled with anxiety. I went straight to trying to reassure myself of attractions to women, previous crushes, and other forms of reassurance. Then I tried to go back to the article to prove I wasn’t attracted, I thought like ERP but all thats done is massively increase anxiety and I feel like im tail spinning a bit.

Username: jpginzjpginz

Date posted: 2y ago

I completely relate to everything that was shared here - the constant anxiety when looking at someone of the same gender, thoughts popping into my head that I want to engage in sexual activity with them and convincing myself these are true, the checking of arousal, constantly comparing which gender I really am attracted to, convincing myself that this is really a sign that I need to “come out” and stop repressing my true sexuality. Just generally completely overstimulated

Username: PollyRydenPollyRyden

Date posted: 2y ago

sending you lots of support 💕 happened to me so many times!! I think this is how it feels like

Username: TyTy

Date posted: 2y ago

Im rooting for you Rous!

Username: RousRous

Date posted: 2y ago

Thank you! I got my anxiety to calm for a while by thinking back to OCD thoughts i had earlier this year. I was in love with my girlfriend at the time but had these thoughts that I wasn’t over my ex. Every time I saw as much as a picture of my ex, my anxiety would spike and I’d take it as proof that I still had feelings. So I just started saying to myself, “this feels the exact same as that. And that wasn’t true, so this probably isn’t true either.” And that helped a bit.

Username: Sp1999Sp1999

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 2y ago

Id say that weird anxiety feeling that feels like oh shit its real but also that strange anxious feeling along with checking

Username: InkJoy123InkJoy123

Date posted: 2y ago

So sorry this occurred to you, it sucks dealing with these kinds of feelings, did you get an immediate intense spike when this happened like when you just saw the picture in a second you got an intense panic attack ?

Username: RousRous

Date posted: 2y ago

@InkJoy123 Yeah, it felt like a panic attack. Then yesterday I was hanging out with a buddy and was kinda low-key nervous the whole time. And when he left I was happy and then got this weird feeling in my chest and I was like “why am I not anxious?” Anxiety followed like 10 minutes later and has kept with me into this morning

Username: Brookenoel

Date posted: 6y ago

What are false attractions like for everyone else? Here’s how mine go, they’re either groinal responses which are normal and I try not to give TOO much meaning to, but the one that fucks me up the most is when, I see a girl and I get a sensation in my stomach kinda like butterflies when you have a crush, but then I start panicking, they’re just sensations just bc I have no desire to be intimate with them or anything, but it’s tingling sensations throughout my body and stuff too and that drives me crazy. Ik my brain is doing a false alarm thing just bc it’s just a sensation and if I did have a crush I would know ?. But yeah that’s how mine are.

Username: marina<3

Date posted: 5y ago

can false attractions make it feel like you enjoy them??

Username: anonymous2525

Date posted: 50w ago

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can false attractions be triggered by specific people only? this might come off as reassurance-seeking (and to an extent, it might be) but i’m getting so worried that this might not be SOOCD and i’m genuinely attracted to these specific people.

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