- Date posted
- 6y
- Date posted
- 6y
Accept that you don't know! It's okay to do what ever you want and be who ever you want if you aren't hurting anyone. Experiment and stuff because you only live once. Really take yourself out your comfort zone to conquere your fears xx
- Date posted
- 6y
Me 2! I’ve had sexuality OCD and recovered. And I have gender OCD now. Working on recovery. Hang in there.. I know it’s tough and I’ve had a lot of days where I thought I was finally going to lose my mind. Those days suck. But good days do come again. I think I may have responded to another post of yours about mindfulness. Again, I’d highly recommend trying it. It will also help you become aware of when you’re doing a compulsion. At first, you may not realize until half way through, “oh crap, I’m doing it again.” But after practice you start catching it faster and stopping it. Reading some books on Pure O may also help. It will make you feel more informed, prepared, and in control. Perspective is hard to have in the midst of an OCD crisis, but you can find it again.
- Date posted
- 6y
We can’t answer that question and even if we could, reassuring you one way or the other would actually be the wrong thing for us to do because that feeds OCD. All those thoughts you just laid out: that’s a nice little compulsions there of trying to endlessly “figure it out.” The thing about a spiral is that you can follow it forever without an end. It’s time for some ERP therapy. Lay out your triggers, expose yourself to them without performing compulsions (ie ruminating, analyzing, looking for clues in your past, body/mental checking.) Instead, just sit with the trigger and your anxiety until the anxiety dissipates. Then do it again. And again. Eventually, the thoughts will lose their power and you’ll regain some actual insight into yourself again. For now, the thoughts are in control. Not you. You have to stop feeding them. Good luck ?
- Date posted
- 6y
This is exactly how I feel . Maybe we should talk more because I’ve been reading your posts and I noticed we have a lot of the same thoughts when it come to our themes . And it makes me feel a little relieved as wel l
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- Date posted
- 24w
I feel different from others, I don’t feel as feminine and I feel like I’ve changed. I’m not sure why I feel this way. I also don’t think my ocd is ocd, it’s just something I told myself to feel better. I know! What if I am what if I’m not, I get it, but I don’t feel like i have a choice in the matter anymore. I have soocd and it’s eaten me alive for years. I woke up out of my sleep and got triggered and here I am. I don’t know what I feel anymore. I always wanted a boyfriend and now It seemed to change. I don’t want a girlfriend, it’s just that I don’t see anything for myself and I feel like I’m hiding. It’s hard to explain. Plus sometimes the way I move or speak makes me feel more masculine and it kills me. Im feeling so lost and alone right now. I know what I want deep down but I feel incapable of having those things because I won’t be able to have feeling. If that makes sense.
- Date posted
- 18w
I wouldn’t really say I have SO-OCD, but it manifests in some areas of my TOCD. Like if I see a woman for example my thoughts will go “what if I like her but as a man?” like my thoughts say I’m a straight man instead of a straight woman. And it’s really bothering me. If I see an attractive woman my brain will re-wire and imagine myself as a man looking at an attraction woman and it gets super uncomfortable that I have to like shake my head and say “no no no no no” multiple times to get the thought out. I know that counts as a compulsion but it’s hard to not do it because it’s so triggering. Now I don’t mind if I like women, however I’m really scared that I’m actually a straight man who likes women (or at least a bisexual man, considering I like men) and I hate it because I don’t want to be a man. Like I’ll think of my desired relationship as a woman dating a man but my OCD will switch it up to me being the man dating the woman, which is the opposite of what I want. I don’t want to be a man at all and I don’t want to date a woman, both of those are the opposite of my desires, but I’m still so scared. I’ll accept myself if I actually like women and am a bisexual woman, however I heard that being bisexual can mean being trans which scares me (for the record it was said in reddit by a sub which is mainly focused on a pseudoscientific phenomenon, that is still believed by the members to be true, so it’s definitely not a trustworthy statement, but my OCD will use anything to work against me) Does anyone here relate a little? 🥲
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- Date posted
- 14w
Today I woke up and immediately was flooded with intrusive thoughts. I was thinking about how I want to remembered when my time on earth is finished. I want to be remembered by my kindness and my heart. I want to be remembered by the lives i’ve changed. But then it hit me. What if you want to be a girl? What if you’re just telling yourself you don’t want to be a girl? I shouldn’t be scared, my family would love me no matter what I was. But this.. This is taking its toll on me. People call me maam all the time. I have feminine features and qualities.. It makes me question everything I know about my life. But I think what makes it worse is that i’m scared but don’t feel scared? Like I don’t feel intense fear like I once did. I know that I don’t want to be a girl. I don’t want boobs or long hair and nails. I have feminine qualities but I just exist. And this morning it’s hitting me very hard. I hate TOCD. I hate that I can’t just have one moment of peace. That it finds ways to seep into my life by finding areas i’m weakest in. I read other people’s stories and kinda do checking with it. And to make it all worse my for you page is FILLED with trans tiktok’s and peoples experiences. It’s making me mad. Why can’t I just be happy? Like everyone else in my house? Why did I inherit this stupid fucking disorder? And why do I question everything single thing about myself. First it was fear I was going to hurt someone and be a monster. And now it’s fucking thoughts of me wanting to be a girl?? Anyways have a nice day guys.
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