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Having ocd are you also afraid to have sex with your partner? I have a terrible problem with this and don't know what to do. Before, it did not cause me any difficulty.
Having ocd are you also afraid to have sex with your partner? I have a terrible problem with this and don't know what to do. Before, it did not cause me any difficulty.
I was afraid for a while to have sex with my partner, because I knew it would summon unwanted images and thoughts in my head. I donāt know exactly what your situation is, but this is how I dealt with it: While making room for consent and differentiating when I genuinely didnāt want to have sex and when it was the avoidance compulsion, I just went for it, despite the fear (This is before I realized I might have ROCD). When the thoughts and images came, I let them be there; I looked at them for a second and said to them, āOkay. Fine,ā and then brought my focus to something like his arm tattoo, or the feeling of the bed sheets, or I would kiss him to return to the moment and choose closeness instead of avoidance. Sometimes it happened multiple times a session and I just had to repeat it again. He has no ideaāI never said anything to him about it. I just kept on with this method and was afraid it would never go away, but⦠I donāt really struggle with it anymore. It started in November/December of last year, and for a couple months now it hasnāt shown up again. Keep going with itāit will feel monotonous and repetitive and frustrating but just keep doing it, keep going. The fears and thoughts are normal, but theyāre not bigger than you. They canāt control you. Youāll get to where they wonāt bother you so much anymore.
@huma (home-ah) Omg this was far longer than I wanted it to be, sorry. TLDR: I let the fear be there, and returned to the present momentāover and over until eventually it didnāt bother me anymore. (***ALSO: If youāre afraid to have sex with your partner because youāre afraid of *them,* or theyāre hurting you, or youāre not consenting, thatās something different! Abuse is never okay!)
@huma (home-ah) Iām struggling with this and itās hard because when Iām so anxious, tmi, I tighten up or lose lubrication and then it becomes uncomfortable. Itās like I canāt calm myself down and then on top of being prone to vaginal infections š Iāve become so afraid and avoidant
@halem77 Thatās so frustrating! Iām so sorry. Thatās okay though and a super normal reaction. Have you gotten to talk to a therapist about it? Do you have any tools to work on this with?
@huma (home-ah) Iām just starting therapy in a week! What tools helped you besides being present?
@halem77 I just started, myself! My intake was Monday but Iām hoping this appointment I can learn a tool or two to help me through my moments too. Before OCD therapy, my regular therapist recommended DBT (dialectical behavior therapy). Iām still not completely solid on the process, but she advised me to examine my thoughts, fears unbiasedly, and then examine the urge I have (to run, to fight, to hurl irrational questions at my partner), and make myself do the literal opposite. What follows is a merging acceptance of factual truth and fearful irrational thoughts, but⦠Iām still not solid on how that fits in with OCD, lol. Iām hoping with my OCD therapist, Bill, we can find out new ways to work with this. Should we share our findings with each other after our appointments? š¤
Iāve had experiences like this recently. I would get with girls and want to have sex and once Iām on em, I start getting unwanted images of guys and then I start panicking and I donāt get erected
I feel awful that I keep coming on here whenever Iām down bad but oh my gosh OCD is the most painful shit that I have EVER experienced in my life and I have a physical chronic illnessā¦. I hate to say it but I hate living right now itās too painful⦠im crying as I type to the point where my stomach is hurting, I have pretty severe ocd I do have generalized anxiety and idk if that is connected with ocd but because of that I have most of the subtypes REAL EVENT OCD,POCD,ZOCD,ROCD,SOCD HARM OCD, you name it and I got it!!! a lot of also why I have have those theme is trauma growing up and involving those things^ as of right now iām 25 and a women with the most loving boyfriend in the entire world before my ocd hit me I NEVER questioned my love and care and attraction with the love of my life I always knew I was going to marry and be with this person the rest of my life! Now with ocd it confuses me soooo much and now I think Iām gay and didnāt realize or indenial and listen I get it ādonāt look for reassurance!ā āItās not the thing ocd is attacking that is the problem ocd is the actual problem!ā Hereās the thing with that if Iām in a relationship and Iām gay that would mean I would have to leave that said relationship and to say that āoh yeah that stuff happens and youāll move onā is absolutely devastating to me this is THE LOVE OF MY LIFE and your telling me that iv been lying to myself this whole time or that I didnāt realize?!?!? And that sexuality can change (even though some say it canāt google says otherwise and some people have said it canāt idek anymore) and all this other BULLSHIT I canāt take it WHY?!?! why does this have to happen why canāt I just be with my love the rest of my life?!? and yes before anyone says anything I have been attracted to girls more so when I was younger watching lesbian porn liking the bodyās and fantazing them sexually it stopped when I got older but I still donāt get disgusted with women who are pretty it just makes me uncomfortable because Iām with the love of my life and before I remember talking to my partner and discussing certain childhood things I experienced and we discussed that we both could be a little bi and for certain Iām (demi sexual so I donāt even really care about looks) and I truly didnāt care!! NOW I do care even with being bi because again I donāt like thinking about anyone else but my partner but I do also know my parents are homophobic and I do think about if I am gay they wouldnāt be okay with that and I also dont want to deal with that so now I sound like in indenial right?!???? I didnāt even care about labels before my ocd it just didnāt matter but now itās effected my sex life and itās hard for me to enjoy sex with being so confused Iām so confused I googled everything can you still have sexual fantasies with same gender but still be straight? Can you fantasize about same gender or imagine marrying them all of it !!! And non of that disgusts me it just makes me uncomfortable AGIAN only bc I just love the partner Iām with right now!!! Iām so fucking confused do I have to leave my partner and accept that Iām gay is that going to happen in the future if I get better with ocd and find out itās been true all along?!???
Last night I was staying at my boyfriendās house and couldnāt sleep. I felt like i desperately needed to go back to my parents and clean and organize my room. This has happened a few times before when I was staying at his place. Since then heās been very upset with me. Does anyone elseās partner do this? Any advice? Itās been hard. Heās made me feel so shameful for having OCD. As if itās not tough enough /:
Iām 25 and never ever thought this before my soocd relapse. I have a bf of 5 years. Never been a high libido kinda girl. Donāt 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 wonāt prefer to sleep and kiss girls if you havenāt tried it: and itās 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 donāt want I donāt want I donāt 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 donāt 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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