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Could porn addiction combined with HOCD make it alot worse since porn addiction can cause loss of identity and false attraction as well. I feel like it makes my OCD a whole lot more real.
Could porn addiction combined with HOCD make it alot worse since porn addiction can cause loss of identity and false attraction as well. I feel like it makes my OCD a whole lot more real.
Yes, 100%
Porn can cause false attractions?
Yes since once you become addicted to porn your attraction to normal porn becomes dry and you start to escalate to more extreme things. I haven't got to that stage but I've started to lose attraction to the opposite sex and girls just don't appear the same anymore. Before I was 100% certain I was straight I even have a girlfriend who I love and porn and OCD combined is destroying that.
@NeverGiveUp I lost my attraction to women from porn then out of nowhere false attractions started happening
@mrein280 Yeah that's exactly the same as me everyone gets aesthetic attraction(finding someone good-looking/pretty etc) but OCD has been twisting that alot. Before I never once was this anxious or questioning/checking my sexuality so much it's horrible. I might quit porn for a week or more to see how much my hocd improves.
@mrein280 I was worried if porn made me think I'm straight which is stupid
@NeverGiveUp You probably need to do a month or something
@mrein280 Probably I've never went more than 8 days in the past 3 years almost so I'm generally questioning if porn is the reason why my anxiety and OCD has become servere. Before I was using porn and could go ages without it I never once had OCD at least not as servere.
@NeverGiveUp I was watching so much porn during covid like 5 hours because I couldn't go out and stuff
Trying not to seek reassurance, but rather connect the dots on my OCD and possible reasons as to why I am the way I am. I have severe OCD (or at least I hope I do) mainly surrounding POCD. I've had symptoms of OCD the majority of my life but this theme has come up more recently. When I was a kid, and i'm talking 6-7, I was first exposed to some really gross adult content online. It was introduced to me by a friend of mine around the same age of me. I saw some really disgusting things that a 6-7 year old should definitely not see. This was not a one time occurrence, as I had been exposed to taboo topics online years to come after that, such as the same friend introducing me to Omegle... And i'm sure you can imagine how that went, theres a lot of genuinely disgusting human beings on there. Coming back to the reason for making this post; is it possible to early exposure to this content could be one of the reasons I struggle with POCD? It genuinely scares me to death because you hear that real p*dos dealt with simular situations when they were kids, so thats kind of making me feel that this could be more than OCD, and I could be a genuinely bad person. My POCD feels so real, that at times i'm fully convinced its not OCD. Sometimes I can't even distinguish the feelings of attraction between a younger person and an older person, except for the feeling of anxiety and fear. Its really hard to explain without going into detail, but it just feels so real. Some feedback on this would be great, thank you all.
Can sexual orientation ocd make you act on your fears and make you have same sex experiences ever and then after the experience realize that’s not what you are or want?
Sorry long post. Anyone feel like now they’re just in extreme denial. Like when I was little I noticed guys more than girls in movies and was more drawn to them. I remember changing my mindset to switch that. 98%of my life has been straight until recently. I felt drawn to some guys but never thought of it sexually. Always had girl crushes dreams and porn. Now I watch porn and I feel like straight takes longer and then I go and watch gay porn and feel nothing until I tell myself it’s two attractive dudes and love is love and imagine physical sensations and then it hits like suddenly. Like I have to convince myself it’s alright. Then when I try again I can do all that but feel nothing and then straight porn works. Idk if it’s just getting a fix or the first time works with anything or what but it’s confusing. On top of that I’ve felt girl relationships including my wife maybe miss something and a guy maybe matches that feeling that but then I feel like I’d be missing something without a girl or my wife. Idk I’ve had some rough times in life with male figures in my life but idk. I feel like I have to convince myself more and more that I’m straight even more than the first time I dealt with this. Can someone relate? Please
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