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No, no, no!! Not what I was saying at all. Please don't worry about this. I meant that I used to be scared of being attracted to women bc of my religious upbringing. Hence the obsession and worrying. But then I realized, it's not wrong to feel attracted to girls and I am still attracted to my husband and so it wouldn't even change anything. And that's when the OCD thoughts stopped and I realized im actually bi and not just having HOCD. see the difference? I think mine was more a case of scrupulosity (religion OCD) than HOCD
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Like I was always attracted to women but was in denial bc od my religion and started having intrusive thoughts tied to it bc of guilt and shame. Once the guilt and shame went away, and I started going to a church that accepts lgbtq people, I realized this is a real part of me not just ocd
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Oh ok I understand what you mean now. You have always felt attracted to women you just didn’t want to because of your religion. That makes since I’m glad you came to peace with everything!!
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But wait, are you saying the 'attraction' will never leave!? Back in the days when I saw a men that was good looking, I always thought about I wanted to look like him, like have a cool beard or something like that, but I was never attracted to them, I always liked girls. But since I have HOCD I always get a shock of anxiety when I see someone good looking, will this never leave??
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Good for you! I'm glad. The thing is that life is not black and white the way hollywood has showed us. Look, right now it's acceptable to be LGBTTTT but not a pedophile. In other times and societies has been the opposite. The important thing is that you know what you want and wish for yourself and the ones you love. Is my pocd real then? Who knows. Do I want to get divorced and start chasing minors around? Of course not - I want to share rime with my family, travel, learn new languages, see my daughter grow up, etc.
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@arborvitae thanks for your response! I'm very glad for you!! Sorry I think I misunderstood you. When did you discovered you were bi, and how? I don't want to use this as reassurance, but I'm just curious. Fake attraction is very hard to deal with for me, so that's why I want to know more about this topic.
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When I realized I was bi and accepted it I didn't have as many sexual intrusive thoughts about girls but I haven't had the fear that other things will turn out the same way.
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I'm exactly in same the situation!!!
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Lauren, you are correct. I'm one of those people that has the "groinal response" at awkward times and have always tried to attribute it to something. But with this it is different bc the distress was not about the idea of the act itself but about what others would think. Whereas with my pocd, there is absolutely no way in hell that I want to do anything, it's completely and utterly ego-dystonic.
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I’ve had so many moments of clarity with my OCD that I love my boyfriend and I’m beyond willing to go through this to be better and be with him. in the back of mind I’ve in a way known I was at least somewhat sexually attracted to women (I’m a woman) since the start of the ocd it was always like “okay. Fine, but I don’t want to date a girl” I only just realized this after the ocd started, I never really argued with this. my ocd has always revolved around if I’m romantically interested in women and not men. I’ve done so many compulsions through this year and a half and 9 times out of 10 have come to the conclusion that I don’t want to be with a woman romantically. I always end up feeling like I know I love my boyfriend. But the doubts don’t stop about whether I want to spend my life with a woman instead, my heart literally breaks to think of not being with my bf and imagining him with someone else. I don’t want to be with a woman I know deep down somewhere underneath the anxiety that that’s not what I want. It doesn’t feel natural for me, unfulfilling. I want to tell my boyfriend about the possible sexual attraction to women (ik it’s still ocd related) but I’m scared that once I tell him, I’ll realize that I actually do want to be with women and not with him. Ugh I’ve spent hours today ruminating about this after being solid in my commitment with him for a little while, I’m stuck in this loop and idk how to get out right now
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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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Think logically. Literally. Take me as an example. I have hocd and my obsession is “what if I’m gay”. I’ve liked girls my whole life, I can still get aroused by them and I can’t get the same instinctive reaction from a guy. So I can’t be gay. Sometimes ocd will go to something else once you prove it wrong. Maybe like. “What if I’m bi” again I can only get aroused by girls. Sometimes when I’m not thinking about it I can even get aroused when sitting next to a girl or when I’m sitting next to one or even when I’m touching one in a non sexual way. Something that never happens or has happened with a guy in my life. Don’t start panicking. Just “realise” who you are and who you’ve been.
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