- Date posted
- 2y ago
advice please?
still struggling with this theme and i fucking hate it so much for the fact that it’s the one theme that can be “real” and you just have to deal with it. anyway, i’ve been trying to make myself not care since i think that’s the only thing that’s gonna make it go away. however, sometimes when i see a picture or a video of a really attractive male celebrity, i get this giddy little feeling that i think is probably attraction. at first this functioned as accidental reassurance but now i think it’s morphed into something compulsive. i’m constantly trying to chase that feeling and when i get it, my brain turns it against me. i get thoughts like “you can only feel this for male celebrities, not real men” or “you’re forcing yourself to feel this way” even though those reactions are completely involuntary and i’ve had them since i was a teen. my ocd is focused on whether i’m actually attracted to men or not and this constant back and forth is definitely not helping. i just don’t know how i can win with this thing. i feel like i’m going crazy with knowing that i more than likely feel attraction but my mind is daily attempting to convince me through intrusive thoughts and feelings that i don’t. i want to get over this and live my life but i’m caught in between this tug of war of rationality vs. fear and i don’t know where to go.