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- Ocdsuxs
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Totally relate. You’re not alone. So many people are dealing with this. You have to stop ruminating. That means stop checking, reassuring, and going down the evidence rabbit whole. Practice observing your thoughts as thoughts which meditation is helpful for. Start managing your anxiety without performing compulsions. Maybe go and see a therapist for professional help. Every time you catch yourself beginning to ruminate, stop. Go do something to get your mind off of it. Take a walk. Talk to someone about a random subject. Exercise. Just because you are choosing to disregard the thought’s validity doesn’t mean you’re denying your sexuality or shoving your feelings down. This doesn’t have to do with sexuality in the slightest. You will be okay never knowing for sure. I am. I just focus on my life RIGHT NOW! I don’t need to know. Nothing I would ever find out would change who am now. You can get there too.
I understand.
I’m a 33 year old guy with a partner and three children and I started suffering with this about 10 weeks ago. I have intrusive thoughts and am constantly worrying what if if gay or bi. Up until 10 weeks ago I was confident In myself, happy and outgoing but now I spend hours a day checking HOCD forums, reading coming out stories and even checking guys out on the street to see if I’m attracted to them. This illness is cruel and unfair and leaves you feeling like you don’t know who you are anymore. I even try to watch gay porn to see if it turns me on (it never does) and take tests online (all come up straight) and have sex with my female partner yet the doubt continues ?. I don’t have any answers to this but wondered if anyone can relate?
I ha e the same problem
Have
If your a teen I have a group chat on instagram if you want to join my insta is jvad323
It’s is for Hocd support
I’m 19..
U could join if u wanted but itd be a bit odd
Literally my thoughts on words!! I went from “omg, what if I’m bi and I’ve been denying it my whole life? How do I know for sure?” To... “omg, what if I’m gay?” To...”I’m in denial somehow and I must find out how to get out.” Just constant in my brain. There’s always something I’m missing that ocd loops me back in with. My thoughts are even in my dreams which freak me out. It isn’t even like a weird sexual dream, it’s like I’m testing my thoughts and feelings in the dream. Ugh. Even if I was gay, I would never find out. I would be perfectly happy if I was and in fact, I would prefer it if it would make the thoughts go away, but it does not. Ugh. So frustrating.
I can’t anymore. I really can’t. The what if I am attracted to them. The “why does it have to be a man with a woman” (which by the way- I only now get when women are talking in love songs. And whenever I look at any couple). I am just tired. Tired of feelings like crap. I just want to go to what I was before, but was I like this before? Have I always been like this? I am tired. My anxiety levels are ALWAYS the worse at the morning. I am starting to obsess whether I like this friend now! And it doesn’t matter how much I try to accept it, it doesn’t go away. Like there is still something wrong. I hate this. I hate this so fucking much. At this point. How can I still be straight? I literally get triggered by everything. And how can I just not be gay? I have no reason to think that but it feels so real. It’s like I have no sexuality at all. And this is all that I can think about every single hour of my day. I am even thinking about this in dreams! I even wonder that the fact I am so upset right now is because I am scared of telling people and that they won’t accept me. When I don’t even know who I am myself. I am so done. What even is this? Have I always been like this? I am getting flashbacks and it’s telling me I have.
I’ve lost my interest in men. I’ve been telling myself what if I’m gay for over a year now and I feel like I’m gay now. I feel like my biggest worry is coming out now. In my religion and culture it’s wrong and I don’t want it. It all started as a movie scene last year. I’ve accepted it I’ve given up. I feel like I’ve been in denial the past a year. I’m on tinder looking at girls now cause I don’t know anymore. Now I can’t seem to find someone I’m interested in I can’t see myself kissing a girl or sleeping with one. I just truly believe I’m gay and I have to call my mom and come out. I want to cry. I’m nervous idk what’s real. Am I gay? Or is this ocd? Am I bi? Should I come out? Was my life a lie? Am I in denial cause it’s unacceptable? Will my parents love me? If I’m worried about them then it’s cause I’m in denial right? Ugh I want to die.
Okay so having a lil anxiety attack right now because the thought of being gay aint scaring me anymore and now i feel like i truuuly am gay and like i have to come out to my parents and like im pressured by myself and not accepting myself and it feels just too real and idkkk its crazy how i can go from okay to this stage again. I feel like i try not to fall in love with woman and im holding myself back but if i truly was gay wouldnt it just liked the same sex earlier in my life. Like it just happens right? So ive never had that but i feel like im blocking myself from likjng woman but jve never liked them in my whole life so idk what im tryna convince myself. I cant lie, This generation is rlly hard on me when it comes to my hocd. Evergwhere around me people are comjng out and it makes it look like being gay is a huge posibility and that i could easily be gay when u look at how many people are gay. That it wouldnt be a weird case like so many girls are lesbian why wouldnt i be. What would make me straight and them gay? The thing is all these questjoms once were never in my head and all the answers were so clear i didnt even had to ask the questions to myself. But why do i now? Makes me feel like im gay because straight ppl would never ask themselves these questions...
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