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Strict gender norms tend to be great feeding grounds for OCD. You can find a million little rules for how straight or gay people are “supposed” to act. Meanwhile, no person follows these with 100% adherence. OCD loves to dig into these complex areas of the human psyche because we all exist on various spectrums that are often contradictory and layered and unable to fit into one neat box every second of every day. Your brain will never be able to make sense of it, so it can continually cast doubt in your mind. Accept the uncertainty and confusion of it all and don’t let your OCD try to steal your identity simply because it doesn’t fit this or that tiny rule some of the time.
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Dont be sad or angry at your self you are human . Be yourself and be strong I'm 5 years now hocd times it's perfect and no anxiety my sex life gets back on par. In the last 5 years myself and my fiance have had two kids so what I'm getting at is life goes on it's normal to have thoughts it's just sometimes like what we are going threw was always looked down on and told it's wrong for man years. If it was always accepted it wouldnt cause us much stress as it really wouldnt matter if you think it . If there was no consequence for breaking the law you wouldnt panic if you were speeding and see a police officer . Or would worry about getting caught stealing somthing. But because there is and you do so you fell anxiety of getting caught
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Cause the brain knows it bothers us . We react by having anxiety . If there was no anxiety it wouldnt bother us . When the brain sences that we dont like it and that we took its bait it keeps casting back at us . Grab the bait and take the bull by the horns so I dont care. It's nothing to me gay or strait it's all good. I'm still me and have a life ahead of me . If you take the power from it, it dont put us down
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Yes strict rules can end up fuelling ocd and restricting who we feel we can be and how we can express ourselves. If I wear pink as a man, does that make me guy? If I drive a certain car or don't like sports does that make me gay? No. I neee to give myself plenty of space to be me, rather than live in fear of people thinking I'm gay.
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same with me but i’m a guy?
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It’s the worst. Like why th is this happening. I was okay before, but suddenly I’m questioning everything.
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Say I dont care * not so ...
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Thank you. At this point I’m starting to just feel so sad and angry that this is happening to me. Idk what I did to suffer this way. I hate this so much I started to cry already. I want this to end.
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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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Im a 21 year old female in a straight relationship with the best guy a girl could ever ask for. About 2 months ago, I went to get coffee with a friend and as I dropped her off, I got a “weird” vibe from her and the look she gave me which lead to the thought of “should I kiss her”….Ive never had a thought like that before and I never have ever wanted to kiss another girl. I have also never had a desire to be with another girl (sexually or romantically). Now though, I have had one other experience of being with a different friend going to get lunch and it felt weird. Ever since then I have been on google non stop with hundreds of different searches, questioning if im lying to myself of my boyfriend, wondering about my past relationships even though Ive only dated boys, been attracted to boys, crushed on boys, etc… boy crazy! Reading on other forums has been a big thing too or doing quizzes. I believe its SO-OCD but im so scared that what if its not. I am in therapy and actually had two weeks of not even thinking about it or googling it until yesterday. I dont know what to do.
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I’m 25 and never ever thought this before my soocd relapse. I have a bf of 5 years. Never been a high libido kinda girl. Don’t get me wrong I do get turned on by my bf but not like every day you know? - That had always been in the back of my head, is this normal and ok? But my ocd has latched onto the most scariest what if EVER. My brain is now saying How do you know you won’t prefer to sleep and kiss girls if you haven’t tried it: and it’s that unknown that is scaring the shit out of me. I DONT AND NEVER HAVE wanted to sleep / kiss a girl. But now my intrusive thoughts is all I think about!!! I don’t want I don’t want I don’t want??? So why does my brain think BUT WHAT IF??? I know ocd thrives off uncertainty which is why I think this is happening? But I don’t wanna find out or work it out because all I want is to be with my bf and marry him!! Is this just the epitome of OCD?
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