- Date posted
- 5y ago
- Date posted
- 5y ago
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
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- 5y ago
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.
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- 5y ago
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 ?
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- 5y ago
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
- 16w ago
I’ve had so many moments of clarity with my OCD that I love my boyfriend and I’m beyond willing to go through this to be better and be with him. in the back of mind I’ve in a way known I was at least somewhat sexually attracted to women (I’m a woman) since the start of the ocd it was always like “okay. Fine, but I don’t want to date a girl” I only just realized this after the ocd started, I never really argued with this. my ocd has always revolved around if I’m romantically interested in women and not men. I’ve done so many compulsions through this year and a half and 9 times out of 10 have come to the conclusion that I don’t want to be with a woman romantically. I always end up feeling like I know I love my boyfriend. But the doubts don’t stop about whether I want to spend my life with a woman instead, my heart literally breaks to think of not being with my bf and imagining him with someone else. I don’t want to be with a woman I know deep down somewhere underneath the anxiety that that’s not what I want. It doesn’t feel natural for me, unfulfilling. I want to tell my boyfriend about the possible sexual attraction to women (ik it’s still ocd related) but I’m scared that once I tell him, I’ll realize that I actually do want to be with women and not with him. Ugh I’ve spent hours today ruminating about this after being solid in my commitment with him for a little while, I’m stuck in this loop and idk how to get out right now
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- 13w ago
I’m 25 and never ever thought this before my soocd relapse. I have a bf of 5 years. Never been a high libido kinda girl. Don’t get me wrong I do get turned on by my bf but not like every day you know? - That had always been in the back of my head, is this normal and ok? But my ocd has latched onto the most scariest what if EVER. My brain is now saying How do you know you won’t prefer to sleep and kiss girls if you haven’t tried it: and it’s that unknown that is scaring the shit out of me. I DONT AND NEVER HAVE wanted to sleep / kiss a girl. But now my intrusive thoughts is all I think about!!! I don’t want I don’t want I don’t want??? So why does my brain think BUT WHAT IF??? I know ocd thrives off uncertainty which is why I think this is happening? But I don’t wanna find out or work it out because all I want is to be with my bf and marry him!! Is this just the epitome of OCD?
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- Date posted
- 11w ago
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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