I can’t even go on YouTube or any other type of media without my mind telling me to look for “hot guys” and then me preceding to look for them, it just feels like everywhere I look I expect some guy to be there and if not then I get that feeling of being disappointed. Anyone else ?
Yes! I’ve had this happen to me and with so much access to social media, it’s even more of a struggle. It’s like your brain doesn’t care who it is it just wants to find someone and fixate on them. It’s very antagonizing! Remember you aren’t alone and many other people experience this:)
@malsaipe Hey I know it’s been a while since this post but how did you get over this, because it’s evolved into me not being able to go out because of these thoughts
First of all, I had a lot of help and guidance from my therapist. They helped me “accept” these thoughts and allow them to pass through my brain without attaching meaning to them. The biggest thing is to say to those thoughts “yep, those guys are hot” or “yeah, I’m looking for guys”. It’s like telling OCD, “what are you going to do about it”. You’re showing OCD it can say or make you feel whatever but you just let it go so it has no meaning. I hope this helps!
@malsaipe Thank you so much 🙏🏾
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
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.
So I identify as a lesbian and I am in a committed relationship with a wonderful girl. But i’m stressing that I have crushes on boys I go to school with. I get anxious around them, which I think I mistake for excitement. I obsess over it in my head which confuses me a lot. Idk I also never think about them sexually or romantically but I think about them often which is scaring me. Any advice?
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