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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.
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- OCD Conqueror
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- 5y ago
I understand.
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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?
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I ha e the same problem
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Have
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If your a teen I have a group chat on instagram if you want to join my insta is jvad323
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It’s is for Hocd support
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I’m 19..
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U could join if u wanted but itd be a bit odd
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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.
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- 19w ago
I feel so sad, alone, scared and hopeless. Until two months ago there was not even the remote possibility of being anything other than heterosexual and now the idea that I could find out that I was lesbian or bisexual terrifies me to death. Everything was born from the fact that I didn't feel sexual desire towards my ex-boyfriend and I started to be afraid that it was because I was a lesbian... how can I be a lesbian or bisexual if everything was born from this? I would like to run away from myself and my head. I would really like to go back and go back to my life before. I can't take it anymore. I just want to live my life like before
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- OCD Conqueror
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- 16w ago
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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- 11w ago
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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