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- 2y ago
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 2y ago
Thank you for sharing your question. Anything is possible for OCD. Ocd will come into areas where we are unable to tolerate uncertainty. Ocd wants 100% certainty. Have you had erp therapy to help you deal with sitting in the uncertainty.
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- 2y ago
@Jeffrey No
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 2y ago
@Liamj514 I would recommend that you contact an OCD specialist and begin ERP therapy. If that is not possible, you can learn a lot from NOCD and Nathan Peterson videos on YouTube. These are videos that I have found helpful.
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- 2y ago
From my knowledge, I don’t think OCD necessarily creates false feelings for anything. However, those of us with OCD process thoughts differently than those without OCD. For us quite often when we have thoughts we over analyze them, we find it impossible to dismiss or compartmentalize them. This leads us to believe they must mean something and that we need to figure it out. We start engaging in compulsions, such as ruminating, asking for reassurance, researching and numerous other mental and physical compulsions. We become fixated and preoccupied. Ironically, when we are in this state we are in no position to solve or answer anything. The thoughts have now become intrusive; they’ve become “intrusive thoughts”. Often the harder someone fights the thoughts or tries push them out of their mind, the stronger they get. Accepting them while not engaging is often more effective. Try to allow yourself to have the thought and respond with a neutral statement like “thanks” or “maybe it’s true maybe it’s not” without engaging any more or less than that. I know easier said than done, but with time and practice it does get better.
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- 2y ago
When it comes to hocd and false feelings from all the research I have done. From what I have experienced, it normally anxiety that you mistaken as attraction or arousal.
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- 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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- 7w ago
So I’ve talked to a couple of gay people and they all told me the same thing. They ALWAYS knew they liked guys and they have ever gotten aroused by a woman in their life. In fact they told me that they always found a woman’s body disgusting. Looking back in my life I’ve been attracted to girls for as long as I can remember even before puberty. All my fantasies were about girls and I can’t remember a time where I felt the same for a guy (because it never happened). At the end I can still get aroused by women and you can clearly see how much stupid this obsession about being gay is. Gay people can’t get instinctively aroused by a woman and like it. Groinal responses and sensations don’t mean anything because they simply do not bring joy or a feeling of desire. Instead they bring panic. I once got a groinal when “testing my reactions” and I was sitting there crying like my life is over. That’s not how genuine attraction works and no one has woken up one day feeling different and no one has been secretly gay and never noticed it and spent his whole life into women instead.
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- 7w ago
So basically I didn’t know till my hocd started. But looking back at my life I had ocd since I was a kid. Like 6-7 years old. First time happening I remember that when I was doing stuff many times I had to say something like a little poem in my head to stop it. Then I had this thing were if I felt my left foot touch the floor 5 times I had to do the touch the floor with my right foot too. Then I had something I guess contamination??? Basically after washing my hands I had a sensation on my hand like I could still “feel” the germs and I had to wash them again. Then I started having thoughts of my family members getting hurt. I had intrusive thoughts about me hurting my dog. Then I had this obsession that a guy who used to be in my school is looking for me to beat me up. And how it’s this obsession about my sexuality even tho I never doubted or questioned it before. Is that possible??? Like can you be born with it? I’m pretty sure both my parents have it too. At least at some level. Take my father for example he had an obsession that he was going to die the moment he turned 30.
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