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Specific OCD theme does not matter. All OCD is the same. Thoughts are just thoughts and don’t necessarily represent our true values or beliefs or anything at all — the problem is the meaning we are giving to these thoughts. The fact that you don’t identify with what OCD is telling you that you are, is the reason you have this theme and why it is causing you so much distress. OCD can be very scary, it can feel very real, but it doesn’t have to be this way forever. Are you currently/are you able to see a therapist?
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I’ve gone through all of this! You’re not alone. It’s so awful but I know we’ll get through this
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You’re not alone. Everything you wrote resonates SO MUCH with me and I’ve been suffering from this for much longer. I don’t say that to scare you. Just to make sure you know there are others out there. I see you. I feel you. I get it. You are not alone.
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I understand therapy being too expensive as this has been an issue for me as well. Have you tried any self help (OCD books, workbooks, etc.)?
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Hi, I see that this post was written a while ago but it’s really calming to know that I’m not alone on this. For the past year I’ve had days where I’ve just felt off. I feel like my voice is boyish, even when I look at myself in the mirror I feel like I look like a boy (when I know I don’t)... it makes me panic and gives me suicidal thought because like you said what’s the point of living if I can’t be myself... I am experiencing everything you have written here. I’ve been a girly girl since little and I do love being a woman I just can’t comprehend why I don’t feel like one sometimes.. it’s so scary. I don’t want to be a boy. Do you have any updates on how you’re coping with this? I really need help
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Hi kea . Yea this post was from last year and this theme was very rough for me . However I overcame this theme and I’m still a woman and I’m still a girly girl I do my makeup everyday and I play in my hair lol . This theme actually put me in the hospital because I was scared for my life . I then got the medicine I needed and also seemed professional help from a ocd specialist and I was diagnosed with ocd officially in august of 2019 . Today I live a normal life I take my medicine everyday and it’s very rare that I have obsessive thoughts. When I do get them I try to do exposures and don’t fight the thoughts you have to let them pass through no matter how uncomfortable they make you feel . I wish you the best let me know if you have any questions.
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@naj I’m so glad to hear you’re doing better! It gives me hope. What kind of medication are you on? If you don’t mind me asking
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@Kea Prozac and abilify
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@pineapple I’ve been looking but the ones near me are either too expensive or too far
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@Bella I pray oneday I will
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I pray one day we will
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I try to tell myself that I’m still a girl and I still enjoy being one but it doesn’t let me feel the same . I just want it to let me go . So I can be happy with myself again
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I’ve been looking into it . But I’m not sure if it’ll be as effective
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I feel so sad, alone, scared and hopeless. Until two months ago there was not even the remote possibility of being anything other than heterosexual and now the idea that I could find out that I was lesbian or bisexual terrifies me to death. Everything was born from the fact that I didn't feel sexual desire towards my ex-boyfriend and I started to be afraid that it was because I was a lesbian... how can I be a lesbian or bisexual if everything was born from this? I would like to run away from myself and my head. I would really like to go back and go back to my life before. I can't take it anymore. I just want to live my life like before
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I’m sharing this bc I need advice or even support from anyone who can relate. If you can’t relate and don’t think you’ll say anything helpful or kind pls don’t comment anything… I’ve been struggling with somethings that’s making me question myself. There has been moments while self pleasuring when I get intrusive thoughts, in those moments it feels like I’m enjoying or even self pleasuring myself bc of the thought. Right after I immediately have an anxiety attack and my HEART drops bc it feels terrible I feel like a disgusting monster :( ppl have told me I haven’t done a bad bc of how intense my guilt and panic are but I keep thinking that MAYBE I made a horrible decision in the moment and the guilt is just realising that it’s just wrong this doesn’t make sense to me because I’ve always told myself that I would never act on this in 1 million years and I’ve been known that these things are wrong so I’m just like constantly questioning myself these feelings and exact same situation has happened two times already I even promised myself that I wouldn’t act on anything beforehand and yeah, I still felt like I did act on my thought during my alone time I’m genuinely convinced that I’m a horrible and it’s even got into the point where I don’t wanna be here anymore and I don’t even think this is my OCD :( tbh
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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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