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SOCD and TOCD
The thoughts and feelings make me feel in denial. Accepting them makes them feel even more real
The thoughts and feelings make me feel in denial. Accepting them makes them feel even more real
Same, I accepted the thoughts temporarily just for me to sleep but the next morning I know that I don't see myself that way as it just makes me uncomfortable
Bro you think, are you a gay or are you straight man... Bc i have a tocd and socd but first of all i got soocd bc i watched and liked gay pornography then these thougts catch me if i a gay etc.. then 2 years later, so nowadays i got a tocd... Bro is it normal for me or im really transgender or gay i dont know
@I have ocd with sexual things I'm gay, I don't think I'm one to tell you whether you are gay or not. If being gay gives you a lot of intrusive thoughts through out the day there might be ocd as I didn't experience that when I was younger. I don't think gay pornography is a good indication of being gay
Same...
I'm constantly reading stories of coming out and there are a lot of similar points. You've been experiencing something like gender dysphoria lately and it's crippling me. I really don't know what to do.
@Kontheili Recently, I started to feel like my name, face, beard and appearance do not belong to me, which bothers me a lot, so I guess this is dysphoria, but at least the last 2 3 weeks of my 22 years of life are the things I have felt, I interpreted some events I experienced when I was a child, and I don't know if they exist. .
@Kontheili I understand what you said and I share it and yes, when those fearful feelings come, what I should do is actually related to what you said and I seriously started to think that I beat it, the problem already started with my HOCD, I was saying to myself that you are living a lie, you are not real, I was in a very bad mood and I was in a very bad mood that I could not beat it. I believed in the face. but now I stopped commenting when I came to think of something. I don't interpret anymore and these things put me at ease, you said "she" is that "she" you or your partner? in the meantime, have a good time. I believe we will beat it together.
@Kontheili Pls check my last post, if you are following me you should look at my last post
I never read someone talk about this so I wanted to know if it applies to anyone as well. For context: I deal with ROCD and SOCD but I do identify as straight and am in a (happy) relationship with a man. What often triggers me is memories about childhood and adolescences about having the groinal toward nudity in porn or music videos. Because I can’t deny having watched other things than straight porn and experimenting with porn I simply can’t stop trying to figure out what that might have meant and if i deep down have actually a other sexual orientation than the one that I feel comfortable identifying with. I only hear people talking about random triggers but never the REAL memory of arousal to pornography and so on.
With ocd can the thoughts themselves feel entirely true???? Or is it just the narrative around the thought that feels true/real?
I wouldn’t really say I have SO-OCD, but it manifests in some areas of my TOCD. Like if I see a woman for example my thoughts will go “what if I like her but as a man?” like my thoughts say I’m a straight man instead of a straight woman. And it’s really bothering me. If I see an attractive woman my brain will re-wire and imagine myself as a man looking at an attraction woman and it gets super uncomfortable that I have to like shake my head and say “no no no no no” multiple times to get the thought out. I know that counts as a compulsion but it’s hard to not do it because it’s so triggering. Now I don’t mind if I like women, however I’m really scared that I’m actually a straight man who likes women (or at least a bisexual man, considering I like men) and I hate it because I don’t want to be a man. Like I’ll think of my desired relationship as a woman dating a man but my OCD will switch it up to me being the man dating the woman, which is the opposite of what I want. I don’t want to be a man at all and I don’t want to date a woman, both of those are the opposite of my desires, but I’m still so scared. I’ll accept myself if I actually like women and am a bisexual woman, however I heard that being bisexual can mean being trans which scares me (for the record it was said in reddit by a sub which is mainly focused on a pseudoscientific phenomenon, that is still believed by the members to be true, so it’s definitely not a trustworthy statement, but my OCD will use anything to work against me) Does anyone here relate a little? 🥲
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