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- 2y ago
Hocd feels real?
Anyone else experience this? Like it feels real. But like in my gut I am straight, and I know it's OCD because the amount of anxiety I have regarding the intrusive thoughts.
Anyone else experience this? Like it feels real. But like in my gut I am straight, and I know it's OCD because the amount of anxiety I have regarding the intrusive thoughts.
Yes! I feel this almost all the time but I try not to fixate on it.
It's good to know I'm not the only one dealing with this. It sucks that it is happening, but it's nice to know.
I feel this too :( it really takes a toll on my relationship though so it’s just so hard
Check out some of my recent posts they might help.  The reason anxiety feels so real is because your brain is trying to protect you from a false alarm a false sense of danger anxiety comes from evolutionary standpoint back when pre-human or Neanderthals had to rely on anxiety to keep them alive that’s why it feels so real your brain is  perceiving a false threat, and when you react to it, you fuel it  you need to show your brain irrelevance that you’re not scared and then it’s irrelevant to you in this time.
Understanding the anatomy, and the science of the brain will help you recover. Extremely the part of the brain were OCD is most  prevalent is the amygdala, which is the least developed part of the human brain and is what perceives threats and that’s with sending you the false alarm.
Your brain is trying to protect you. That’s why the anxiety feels so real  but it’s a false sense of danger. Intrusive thoughts can’t hurt you and you’re in no physical danger and no one else is either. It’s a false alarm. Your brain is on lock good news you can get it off lock you have to learn how to put all this power you put into the ruminations and anxiety into other productive activities then you can accomplish amazing things.
I'm struggling too, especially in the mornings, I wake up feeling sick and have been sick a couple of times. I keep doing erp as well sometimes I feel it makes it worse but I have to try I'm so miserable 😭
@I wont let ocd win I am doing ERP. I learned to only do 2 exposures a day because if you do too much your minds gunna fixate on the ERP Content more because of the duration being so long meaning it will take longer to fade
I relate to this so much! I have 2 intrusive images in my head and although I know they didn’t happen my anxiety makes me feel like they did! I keep telling myself my anxiety was just a false alarm that I’ve attached the images to but I just can’t understand how they can’t be real when I feel so bad
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
Does anyone have any advice for how to know the difference between ocd and real feelings/thoughts? Sometimes an intrusive thought will come in and I immediately know it’s ridiculous and I can just leave it alone and it won’t bother me but other times I really really don’t know. It’s when ocd hijacks and twists my real feelings and thoughts and tries to manipulate me into believing they’re something they’re not or something that doesn’t align with my true morals or intentions. But since it’s twisting and mixing with real feelings I get so confused and scared. Everything gets jumbled and I feel like I can’t trust myself or my own mind. Yet other times and other topics I can laugh off and push away just fine. Make it make sense. And then I start to think well maybe I don’t have ocd at all and I’m just in denial because I don’t want to accept that these scary/concerning things are true about myself. Or maybe that’s just the ocd talking.
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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