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(Although worth noting you can never be 100% sure of anything, so we’ll say I’m 99% sure I’m not gay lol)
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I want to get to that point so bad. i want to get to the point where i can live with potentially being gay. i know my parents and family will still love me, it just wouldn’t be the same. i’m not saying they’re homophobic, they just don’t support it and if i were to be gay it would crush them. i don’t want to be an outsider or hated by my family. i cant live with that. how can i accept the uncertainty of that? ugh
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Okay so yeah my parents are the same way. They’re not homophobic and they would still love me, but like you said, they’re not necessarily the type to go to a pride parade. I still managed to accept the possibility but it took a lot of work. Just please start your exposures ASAP. It’ll take some work but it works faster than you might expect! I believe in you :)
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This totally happened to me with the childhood stuff. I came to the conclusion that kids are innocent and honestly don’t know what sexuality is. They just have crushes on the people they have crushes on until like middle school and high school age when they start to learn about sex. You’re so not alone and it feels good to know I’m not the only one at least.
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I honestly feel the same way, now that I think about it I remember I went on an online site game when I was really little like probably 8-9 and like dated girls for like a day. I thought it was normal but kinda weird. Now that I’ve thought about it it’s torturing me. I keep thinking I enjoyed it. Now I’m careful with my words when I’m w female friends because I don’t wanna say something that makes me feel further gay like words like “babe,” or anything complimentary yk. I also don’t have any attraction to guys and I’m scared it’ll remain that way. And every girl I see I automatically think I like her. It’s really taunting but we got this
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Ugh dude this happens to me all the time. Kinda thought I was the only one lol. I freak out about how I wanted to impress the popular girls so they’d be my friend, how I once pretended to be a boy on club penguin and dated a girl for a whole two minutes *gasp* when I was eight, how I’ve thought girls were cool and pretty before. But I sat with the discomfort, did my exposures, accepted the worst case scenario. If I’m gay so what? My family will still love me, my friends will still love me, and I’ll be okay. It was only after accepting that I could live with being gay, that I realized that I’m 100% not gay.
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what do you do for exposures?? i usually watch shows, videos, movies and stuff and also if something triggers me i just dive into whatever that is haha.
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I do basically the same! I read gay books, watch coming out videos, talk to lesbians, and reading gay blogs. Just make sure you do it consistently :)
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I had a lot of “evidence” popping in my head for a long time. There was a point also where anywhere I looked at my OCD would go “that’s gay” “that shirt is gay” “everything is gay”. I’ve never thought of it as a bad thing and I accept myself no matter how I identify, which was definitely a hard place to get to, but it was worth the journey. What I’ve learned from this is that OCD wants to make everything a big deal.
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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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i had recently been triggered to have so-ocd. its been on my mind non-stop. (i am a heterosexual female) and my mind has been all over the place questioning if i have been in denial the entire time. ive always had people tell me they sort of got that vibe it it never really affected me until my own mother had her suspicions. so i would constantly get triggered un public around the same gender, while knowing my true sexuality. ive always been attracted to men but as of recently ive been having super bad anxiety to where i cannot eat or sleep and feel weak all the time. it was like that for a week or so. now im in the calm where i have been trying accept the uncertainty but it still isnt fair as im getting triggered. im a little worried because it feels like i have been lying to my parents the entire time although ive never had the desire to be with the same gender. and i keep getting intrusive thoguhts that make me feel anxious and uncomfortable. its all starting to affect my friendships as im constantly getting triggered with the intrusive thoguhts. i feel a little less anxious compared to how i was a couple days ago. im really scared on why im having these thoughts now when i have been having romantic feelings for a guy the past year or so. ive also been struggling with false attraction and loss attraction to men. it makes me feel uncertain of my life the entire time
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So I’m afraid that I have HOCD, but at the same time that I might also be homosexual. Is that possible? I have all the typical compulsions… checking for attraction, analyzing thoughts, analyzing the past, analyzing emotions, searching the internet. Is it really HOCD? When I see anything related to LGBT, I get strongly triggered. Sometimes I observe how my body reacts around people, but most often I check with ChatGPT to calm myself down, although it doesn’t last long—it depends. I also compare myself to other straight women who look like lesbians, or to lesbians who look like they’re straight. I had a phase where I was analyzing my body… whether I have too much hair, whether I have an Adam’s apple, whether I act like a lesbian without realizing it. I also have the typical intrusive thoughts like “did something from the past actually mean something, or is it a sign?” “am I just lying to myself?” “what if I’m in denial?” “what if I’ve ignored signs my whole life and lied to myself?” “what if I’ll never be able to fall in love with a guy?” “what if there are too many signs and proofs and it’s true?” “what if it’s not HOCD at all?” And much more. But now I’m scared that it’s both—that I have HOCD and that I’m homosexual. I’ve cried multiple times because of this and it’s been going on for 7 months. Some days are better, some are worse. And there’s so much ‘evidence’ that I won’t even list now—over these seven months I’ve found so many things from my past and dreams that I feel like there has to be something to it. I’ve also had around four panic attacks because of this. And I truly believe I have HOCD and that I’m also homosexual, which is killing me and it feels horrible. I just want to be sure that im straight and be at peace. When im doubting and thinking that im a lesbian i feel like im not at peace and i hate it. But u feel like i just need to accept it but i don’t want to and i just want to have a boyfriend, kids but im scared that it’s not possible for me because im lesbian and i actually just think that i want a boyfriend but in reality i don’t. Ughhhh help me.
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