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Your HOCD isn't even a fear of actually being a lesbian. It's fear of losing things that you already have as a straight female. The more you panic about this, the more you ruminate and read things, and the more you give in to the thoughts and start analysing them the more your brain is going to take them seriously. Stop analysing, reading, or whatever else you've been doing and just live parallel to the thoughts. You've made it this far in life knowing you're straight, don't let OCD thoughts make you believe otherwise. Also, for what it's worth, I think women are beautiful and have stunning figures but I'm a straight as hell female.
It seems like you’re doing a lot of reassurance seeking in this thread too. The more you ritualise (read, seek reassurance, compare your experience to other people’s, seek reassurance that you’re not a lesbian, ask other people if hocd is real) the more you indulge in your ocd, the worse your intrusive thoughts about being a lesbian will become. It’s a vicious cycle you seem to be right in the middle of.
My friend, those people are wrong. HOCD is real. I’ve spoken to many people struggling with this on this app before and I know it’s OCD and not their sexuality. Remember, OCD is called the doubting disease because it can make you doubt ANYTHING!
Remember this, sexuality is something you are born with, it doesn't change, if you ever tried and found that you are not attracted to your gender, then no matter what happens except for hormonal treatment, your sexuality will not change. If people's sexuality was fluid and could change over lifetime, then all those gay/lesbians throughout history would not need to struggle with their identity or go to any hormonal therapy. They could just force themselves to be straight through their mind.
Yeah I also read an interview with a women who got through hocd. She ended up saying she wasn’t afraid to say that women are hot and that she can get turned on by looking at their naked body. But still know she’s 100% straight so is that normal? Because I’ve seriously never had feelings for a girl or wanted to be with or or fantasied about one. I liked fantasying about boys and I want to go back to that.
Thank you, I actually also just read that ocd chooses to attack things that are important to you. And it makes sense. Thank you for the advice! I very much appreciate it!
OCD absolutely attacks what is most important to you which is what makes it so paralysing. If the thoughts come back just let them sit in your mind and give them no fear or rumination or even thought and they will subside.
Let thoughts be there in your mind. I love that phrase "live parallel to the thoughts" Get comfy with the thoughts instead of believing them. Tell your thoughts "Okay whateva ?"
I wish I can just realize that. But then I tell myself what if I’m really lesbian but I tell myself it’s hocd just to make myself feel better. What if they denial.
I really don’t think they’re in denial. I think the way to handle this is to let the thoughts be there and not try to reassure yourself. The thoughts are like a bully, constantly demanding attention. The best way to resist people like that is to not give them the attention they want. The thoughts should get weaker over time.
HOCD feels very real, to an extent that you actually will feel attracted when you are suffering from it. It is just HOCD, tell yourself no "what ifs"
The thing is I do think girls are pretty and have nice bodies. But it scares me to think what if that means something. Or that there’s more to that. I’ve read that many straight women get turned on by women’s bodies but have to desire to touch them or be with them. I know I have no desire like that. But what if I do. And I’m trying to ignore it. It’s all just so much and it’s so confusing.
And if I was lesbian I shouldn’t be so afraid of it. Ik my family would accept me. But then I’d have to leave my bf and it wouldn’t mean I didn’t love him all along.
I don’t know if this helps, but I think girls are pretty and have nice bodies too, but I have no doubt that I am sexually attracted to men and only men.
This is a really common belief for all of us OCD sufferers and I think so common that maybe all of us have felt this at some point that we give value to thoughts. We believe they have some value or they might have some deep meaning or they reveal something about me. But when you have OCD, all thoughts are same and doesn't hold any value. They are meaningless anxiety inducing brain function of some neurons.
Yeah it kind of does. But still scares me. I guess I have to live with uncertainty. I hate that I was doing so well but now it’s back.
I’m so afraid I might be lesbian. I was very anxious at first but it started to calm down. I’m only 15 and I have a boyfriend I love. At least I think I do, I always chose to question everything and over analyze. I found out about hocd and it described everything I was feeling. I’d take test and read articles like “am I lesbian” but I have never fantasied a girl or wanted to be with a girl sexually or romantically. But what if I’m in denial? I do think girls are physically attractive but I never crushed on a girl. I have always crushed on boys. And liked being with them. I’m just so lost. My anxiety about it had calmed down. But the question is still there sometimes. Earlier today, I found a girl pretty and I got scared thinking that meant something. Then I read about women who have married men, but they know they’re lesbian. I’m scared that that’ll Happen to me. I don’t want to be lesbian. No disrespect. But I just want to be happy. I think I’ve suffered from ocd before. Tell me anyone if I’m wrong. But I used to have thoughts of that my boyfriend would murder me in the future because of theses videos that triggered me. It caused me so much pain and felt so real. That I eventually started to think I’d murder my mom and sister for no reason. I felt so helpless. But I got through it. I hope I get through this. Please any advice? Is this hocd?? Does anyone else feel this way?
(I'm sorry for my English but I'm not native speaker) Hey im very stressed so I need to share my story. I think I have hocd for like 2 months. I'm so stressed to go to therapist because l'm scared that he won't be aware of ocd and he won't give me a good resonance in my case i don’t think that in my country it’s know topic. So I wanna ask you what you guys think of it. I'm so scared that I’m lesbian and I'm just in denial. I've never liked girls but l've never had bad feelings about homosexual people, I had lesbian friend and two gay friends and it was always normal for me, but I just always knew that I like boys because l've always had crushes on boys, I enjoyed reading love novels or erotic novels and it was what I knew I want. And I have a very good friend, we even call each other sister because since we met we had a lot in common, we were very comfortable with yourself, we were taking baths in bathtub together talking about boys and we were drinking wine and it was our tradition , we even kissed on party because we played truth or dare with boys and other girls and we never had second thoughts about it I asked even my sister if it’s weird and she said that she also kissed a girl when she was young and she also saw her friend naked.. she said that we all woman so that’s not weird and don’t identify my sexuality (I asked her now when I have this thought not then), it never even bother me because I knew it didn't meant anything in sexual or romantic way to me. But when I told my flat mate because he asked me how close we are because even tho we studying in different towns we still manage to have contact or to meet and I told him that she is like my sister, we know everything about our selves and I said "bro she saw me naked and we even kissed on party, so think she knows me better than anybody else" (we were 16 then and now l'm 20 and never had questioning my sexuality since now) and then he said "it's sound so lesbian, I think you are bi, for sure you are bi" and at first i was like yyy no and it didn't bother me really, but later I had a lot of stress.. final exams, and I don't know why but I was worried about my health so badly because somehow I thought that I have cancer and I felt very sick, I was vomiting from stress I was crying all night but I go to doctor and he said that I just have some problem with period but since then I was very unstable about my mental health and I started to think what if he was right and I stared to obsessing, I couldn't eat and sleep, I was crying for 3 days all the time, even my flat mates were worried and since then I'm so anxious that maybe he was right and my thoughts now tell my that for sure I like this and at the same time when I think about be with woman but not in sexual way but like be with her in relationships at first I think I want it but the Il'm so anxious so I think that's not the thing. But what is worrying me the most that nothing give me joy.. I'm bookworm I loved to read I loved romance novels and now I think I can't read them, I'm procrastinating (and I was always very active and I loved to study) I can't watch my favorite shows because there are homosexual couples and in the past it didn't bother me but now it is. I also wonder..In childhood because of my parents divorced and very bad situation in home (violence and My mom was twice in mental hospital because she had depression) when I was 6 my teacher saw that I had problems with stuttering and i had something like compulsive blinking (?) I was blinking like all the time and back then I was going to child psychologist because I was scared of people and I was reacting with crying and stress when someone were looking at me with anger (or I just thought that person is mad at me)But I thought that I gone through this. Can it have influence on my mental health right now? Please help me. I'm crying even while l'm writing it, I even had thoughts that's it's better to be dead than be lesbian and I'm very stressed because l'm worried that I will never like bovs again. I’m so sick of questioning every single move and tik tok and social media give me also a lot anxiety. Pleas help me.
Hi just for reference, I’m a girl, I’m almost 17 and I’ve been boy crazy for pretty much all my life. I- I don’t even know what to think anymore, I identify as straight and enjoy thinking about men sexually and emotionally, but I can also masterbate to women weirdly enough? I’ve been diagnosed with pure ocd and I have no desire to have any sexual or emotional relationships with women in real life, and I’ve had hocd for over a year now, but I can masterbate to weird things sometimes and I know I’m not supposed to but I compulsively search things up very often and from what I’ve found most people would say that it would mean that I’m bi. The idea of being bi or gay has made me hyperventilate and cry god knows how many times, at this point I wouldn’t even be angry if I was bi or gay but I know that I’m not. My head keeps telling me that since I can masterbate to gay thoughts or lesbian thoughts sometimes that it means that I’m not straight even though I have no desire to do anything even remotely close to that in real life. This is one of my worst themes of ocd so far as compared to other people who have hocd they don’t get turned on or finish thinking about these things and I do but I don’t identify as bi or gay. I just, I don’t know what to do anymore? I was hoping someone on here goes through the same thing? And I’d really rather not hear that it’s just me denying it, I have a few people I talk to and occasionally when I bring it up they just say I’m in denial so I really don’t know what to do anymore.
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