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- 6y
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- 6y
Dear Maya10; I completely understand what you feel - When we are under the OCD spell it is hard to see. It is a paradox. Look. To be completely honest I gave up my quest to know what I am. For real, I am not kidding. I don't know if I am gay, bi or straight with kinks. But I DO know what I want, I love living with my wife, she makes me happy, I love her company. I don't WANT any other life. Some people might say that I am lying to myself and in the closet. Well, those people can kiss my a**. I don't care about what they think, I care about what I want. Same thing with my pocd - My OCD tells me that I might have hidden attractions to children and other perversions and that if people knew my life and thoughts they would think the same. Well, they can think whatever they want. I don't WANT to do any of those things. My thoughts may attack me - I still don't WANT to act on any of them. If you really think hard about it you'll realize that these obsessions come from society and the media. We are scared of what people will say.
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- 6y
We can’t say for sure either way. And neither can you! Whatever happened: maybe it was a sign you’re really gay, or maybe it was another symptom of HOCD. To do ERP you gotta accept the uncertainty of that. I’m sorry you’re going through this!
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- 6y
You’ll have to stop looking for clues and trying to piece together why all of this is happening. Give each question an uncertain answer: “I don’t know! Maybe!” And then leave it at that. When you’re brain asks another question, do it again.
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- 6y
I'm glad it helped. Now, you need your husband's support and an OCD specialist if you don't have one already. There is treatment online too. The reason why that is important is because the thoughts will keep coming and you need to show your brain that you are OK with uncertainty. Your husband needs to play a part in it to the point where when you go ask for reassurance "What if I am truly a lesbian"? Then he needs to answer: "May be" "Who knows" and then move on and stay like that. That attitude destroys OCD to the core, but you might need the guidance of a therapist.
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- 6y
What an amazing answer ,& thank you. Yep I'm married with kids & adore my family but the old ocd creeping drives me mad! I love your understanding & this answer gives me comfort for sure. Yep I don't want to act on these thoughts & they definitely attack my regular life. Thank you & I think the constant thoughts wear me down! But I realise that maybe you can have a life with these thought & kind of carry on regardless!!!
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- 6y
Yep I'm with a therapist but she might not be really good with OCD. But I'm willing to chat again to her, she's a very supportive therapist but its more talk therapy. I'll have to consider telling my husband as he suffers from his own anxiety & doesn't really sympathize with me when I have had other anxious feelings that have shattered me. I find keeping it to myself is easier as I'll just have to worry about him then! But it is something to consider!
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- 6y
Well i mean that big big thing happened like 3 months ago and i got past it. But now since that big thing ive been digging myself in a hole. But i think i just remembered somthing maybe the attraction to girls thing kicked in a few days later.
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- 6y
That is great advice but usually people in this forum are not ready to face uncertainty and receive "probably", "may be" answers (which are the most adequate for the OCD). And I get it, people want only love and hidden reassurance, which is not an awful terrible thing to do but it will never help anyone make any progress. So, just giving you a heads up because they might report you. Apparently sarcasm is not understood well through a graphic mesis.
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- 6y
But I can't understand "you might have to accept you might be gay?" When you never were for your entire life. I get confused on this as this means that I will have to admit & tell everyone that I'm not sure about my sexuality? I mean I can't live with the unsure feelings to be honest. Its day in day out of the same question. Some days are better than others but the feelings of guilt & this hidden feelings & emotions is never ending so I guess I don't know how to just accept it I mean if I accept it that means I'll start having to change my entire life which I don't want. Very difficult!
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- 19w
i'm positive i was attracted to women before this got a thought when i was high thought really really deeply into and changed my life now im 24/7 scared im gay ive always been attracted to girls but early in my sexual life where im at ive always got with girls and seemed a little disapointed after would love help and to hear past experiences
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- 16w
I don't know for sure if I have HOCD, but it seems like I do, I tried to accept the idea that I'm gay, I felt calm, and then I started to get scared because I didn't feel anxiety anymore, I still feel attracted to my girlfriend, both physically and emotionally, but I feel an attraction to boys, sometimes I panic when I feel attracted and sometimes I don't (but most of the time I do) and I don't want to break up with my girlfriend I want to get back to normal
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- 12w
MY STORY i’ve grown up in a mostly supportive family and area and we are not homophobic. i grew up knowing what gay people were and i don’t care i grew up not to care. im from nj. my parents are friends with a lesbian couple and we see them once in while. i grew up watching people like joey graceffa whose gay. i also had some school friends that were gay like this kid kevin and this girl elizabeth. i also babysit a little gay boy who likes to dress up as a girl and i always tell him to embrace it and defend him. i wouldn’t care if a friend was gay or anything like i wouldn’t care if my sister was it would just make me rethink things about myself i think. from a young age i liked male attention and had labeled boys as crushes from my mom says. i dont think i liked girls when i was younger and my mom said it was only guys. but idk maybe there was. However i do remeber hairy men when i was younger would gross me out like with black hair and pale. my mom said every since i was a little girl i would tell her i liked boys. as i got older and in middle school i always wanted guys to want me and think i was funny and pretty and i would get awkward around them and nervous around them. but i remeber i didn’t have specific things i found hot or attractive and if someone said something was hot i would just agree and start telling myself it was hot even when i didn’t care i just wanted to be cool. then hocd hit at 13-15 during covid where i was so confused. the first time i had hocd i would like not avoid the thoughts i would do a lot of testing to figure it out for hours and hours in diffrent ways and would feel the same arousal and attraction im feeling now. but i remeber wanting to end up straight and try and rule out gay stuff. but it wasn’t avoidance i didnt have anything against gay people. when the thoughts were still there i still would only act on stuff with boys. when i first had it i remeber crying to my mom for like a month and i was like whatever she’s not helping im gonna figure this out by myself. that’s when i started testing myself for two years. over time it was just there. ofc it was distressing but i don’t remember much. slowly when i went to high school it faded because i loved going to parties and flirting with guys and talking about them and thinking what boy am i gonna kiss tonight it’s gonna be a crazy night. when covid ended and we went back to real like i started going to parties and kissing boys. i started dating one boy and we would talk all the time just not really hangout so we broke up because i wanted more male attention and was kinda bored of the relation shop. i started hu with this one boy and like didn’t really know if i was into it cause i kinda wanted to hoe around and we were kinda like locked in and i didn’t know if i wanted that. so he got the hint i wasn’t into it and stopped talking to me moved on to another girl and got popular in the span of like two weeks. after this i was obsessed with him and got all nervous to see him and i always just wanted to be like can we go back to the way we were. we then started to “hate” eachother and i was so sad all the time he didn’t want me anymore and moved on. we hooked up in and off for two years. then i started hooking up with this one kid cause i always thought he was really funny and chill. we hooked up for a little and then i started to get the ick. i then got with like two other boys at parties. so then we stopped talking and i started talking to the “hate eachother kid” again. we then started dating and he’s my current boyfriend of a little over a year. all these instances made me feel good and i loved the attention and drama. but i struggled with committing with people. i don’t know if this all for validation because i loved when men wanted me it gave me an ego boost and still does even if i didn’t really want them or couldn’t get it to last with a boy. i’m scared it was all for attention and confidence there attention gave me. i liked feeling like a baddie. i liked when the hot funny guys liked me now at 18 it’s back and for six months all i been doing is talking to my mom my sister and my dad about it constantly researching and checking and for those six months i was in a haze of just despair. i was also in erp but it was so bad i couldn’t sit with the distress so i didn’t make much progress and my pyscuatrust told me to stop for a while until we get my brain right with meds. after three weeks no erp and more meds of seretonin and rexulti i finally don’t feel distress or anxious but the feelings of attraction are still there. i thought there supposed to vanish. i’m from nj and from a supportive family and ig supportive environment and friends. i’m 18. and in high school okay so growing up my mo said i only liked guys and would talk about guy crushes and had two celebrity guy crushes. this was all the way up into middle school. then when middle school came around i started liking this guy cause he was funny and popular. then we started dating and everytime he would do something affectionate i would start crying and get so tense and freak out so i broke up with him because he made me so nervous . a year later i still liked him and i got back together with him and the same thing happened so i broke up with him. i think during middle school i liked guys. my mom said i did. i also would get really nervous when any of them would come around to hangout and i wouldn’t talk. but i would also just follow what my friends and sister said. if they said a guy was hot i would just agree. i dont know if i actually found them attractive. i still kinda do this to this day. then covid hit for two years. during those two years i was in my house house and got hocd. so i had hocd sexual intrusive thoughts only and had the groinal really bad. but i would still try and have crushes on guys and think i did. but my hocd also attached itself to one of my pretty friends who was a girl. it made me have a lot of sexual thoughts that i would masturbate to about her. it was about her waist and stuff and it made me loose myself. before hocd me and her were bestfriends and really close and im not sure if i had feelings for her. i mean i was always jealous cause all the guys always wanted her and thought she was pretty. then we got out of covid and i was now in high school. the hocd slowly faded my freshman year. in the begining of freshman year there was this tall brunette guy who i started talking too for months and started dating and i would get all nervous when he came around. i really liked him and enjoyed talking to him. then we broke up cause we never hung out. after that for the next two years i developed what i thought two be two genuine crushes. i would make out with cute guys at parties for the experience and to add cute guys to my kids list. basically hocd was gone but i did this one thing sometimes i did is i would always try to prove i was straight to my mom. like if we were watching tv i would say a guy was hot. i didn’t want her to think i was gay even though she wouldn’t care at all but i would do this because she was the only one i would talk to about my sexual intrusive thoughts and feelings. i was hooking up with my guy best friend but then started to looses interest but he was still obsessed. one day he caught on i wasn’t into it started hanging out with older people and going to there parties and started hooking up with this older girl. i got super jealous and heartbroken cause he didn’t care about me. i don’t know if this heartbreak and crying was because he got popular, he wasn’t giving me attention, we weren’t friends anymore or because i actually liked him. i always had a thing for him after this. i started going to the older people parties and i always wanted to see him there and make him jealous. one and half years later we started talking again and we started dating. once we started dating we started having sex. almost every time or most of the time i finish when he eats me out, we have actual sex or if we’re just humping. we say i love you and stuff. ths first six months we would do everything together like just little shopping trips or whatever. we were always hanging out. then it started to dial down and i started getting annoyed with him sometimes which my mom and sister said was normal. but i still said love you and we would hangout and have sex but idk. i would have thoughts like we aren’t going to last because he’s not smart enough, and sometimes my mom would say this too. but she would also say how much he loved me and how he was such a sweet guy and how he would do anything for me. but idk i just wouldn’t feel it. like i still showed pda and did like him. would a lesbian who didn’t know it yet likely date a guy for a year and a half at 18, have sex like once a week, have orgasmed during penetration, creamed, squirted finished by his hands and mouth then hocd hit again. this time much worse. it was even stronger it felt like with the feelings. the first three months i was in this haze and was crying everyday that i might be gay and how i really really really didn’t want to be. i still have hocd and im in therapy and on medication. i cant tell if my attraction to men is real. my mom says it is and she knows me and im not gay and ive shown genuine excitement about guys. my sister says the same thing. but it feel like ive convinced myself ive been doing it to fit in. the thoughts got bad and ive told my mom my sister my dad and ive told three friends. my mom and sister ive told the details too or the intrusive thoughts and false attraction. i’ve always found women attractive and i find it easier to find them attractive like physically but never felt this way can i conclude im not lesbian? or like is it likely my attraction to men hasn’t been genuine
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