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This is was so helpful for me. You literally brought me tears of joy lol :) can't wait to start therapy and get better. Glad you're doing better now :)
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Hey ??
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Same I used to have hocd it manifested into tocd
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I’ve had and recovered from HOCD. As difficult as it is to have the images, it’s the act of trying to avoid or push them away that’s giving them power. Let them happen, don’t suppress or analyze them, sit with the anxiety. Do that over and over and over. Eventually, your anxiety will dissipate. You’ll get bored. You’ll heal. It may take weeks or months, but commit to the process and it does work. Good luck!
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@pureolife I don't even have that much anxiety anymore, but they seem so real and give me such a horrible feeling. Did you experience fake attractions? What was recovery like? (sorry if it's too much)
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Yes I did! I thought I was attracted to literally every female on the planet. I would stare at the ground when walking to avoid seeing women and think I was getting aroused at the mere site of female legs walking past me. I was a prisoner of my mind. And now, I’m not. Recovery was enlightening. The more open to having the thoughts I was, the more I realized how powerless they had been all along. When my attraction to men finally came back, I swear it was more powerful than it was before the Ocd lol.
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So my OCD has been bad lately. I’ve been ruminating and obsessing over my sexuality again. And it just keeps getting worse. I hate it so much. I try to sit with the discomfort but then my ocd does the backdoor spike. And the groinal response is what keeps me looped. It SUCKS. I am not attracted to men, but my OCD is trying SO hard to convince me that I am. There have been days where I’m just so mentally exhausted that I “accept” what my ocd tells me and I just walk around a hollow, lethargic shell. But then I rethink it and I feel better. It feels like I can only find my TRUE self when I tire my nervous system out enough that it literally breaks down and has me suicidal and hopeless. And then accepting my OCD’s “truth” (that I’m attracted to men) feels like a burden and a chore. I woke up today from an OCD dream, tried to go back to sleep, and my stomach kept cramping bc I was so anxious and ruminating over my intrusive thoughts. I’m starting to doubt it being OCD anymore. My brain is too tired to fight and cry about it anymore.
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It’s like my brain is doing everything in its power to convince myself and also justify an attraction to teenagers. I hate myself. I don’t want to be this person, but what if I don’t have a choice. How do I get these thoughts out of my head permanently. I feel like my life will never be the same if they don’t leave forever. I can’t tell what is a real desire and what OCD is trying to convince me is a real desire. I can’t do this every day for the rest of my life. I don’t want to hurt anyone, or I don’t think I do but how do I even tell anymore. This might not even be OCD at this point, I can’t separate my thoughts from OCD thoughts I think because I’ve had OCD for so long so it all just feels like me. Maybe it is me. TMI but I haven’t pleasured myself in like a week because my libido is so low now, I don’t want to do it with these thoughts.
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I had a bad rumination spiral yesterday and went to bed hoping I’d start over in the morning. I was wrong. I had dreams about liking women and not being attracted to men anymore and my entire body has been in a state of anxiety since. I genuinely feel like I’m gay and just need to accept it. I have this urge to accept it. Maybe if I do I’ll get some sort of relief because this feeling is awful. I feel like my brain is telling me that I’ll get relief if I just accept it and come out. The intrusive thoughts don’t even seem to be around sexual images anymore, just to come out.
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