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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.
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
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
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.
same with me but i’m a guy?
It’s the worst. Like why th is this happening. I was okay before, but suddenly I’m questioning everything.
Say I dont care * not so ...
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.
I literally have no reason to think this! I’ve never been attracted or had a crush on a girl! I don’t know why I keep worrying. All of the sudden I feel like my feelings for all my past crushes weren’t real. This sucks. I don’t know anything about myself anymore. It keeps trying to push this idea on my head. Like there is no reason for me to think that i am gay! The most possible “reason” would be finding women attractive, that’s it! But now I try to imagine my life partner and when I think of a guy a picture of a women quickly comes up. Sometimes I just wanna scream “I am gay” for no reason. Or when someone is talking about relationships I always think “I am different”. Or when someone talks about acceptance it really bothers me too. This is so bad, what am I even basing this idea on? Now, I it’s hard imagining a guy that I like, it’s weird. I feel like I am never going to like anyone again. Ugh this is draining me
This is ridiculous, now I feel like I’m truly questioning my sexuality. I’m 15. Never had a crush on a girl, don’t think I have. Touched myself to lesbian porn mostly, turned on by sexual images of women but still I never questioned what I felt for boys. I knew I would crush on them, I knew they were feelings. If anything maybe I could be bisexual. But still that doesn’t seem right. I’m just completely lost. Maybe I’m just thinking to much. It shouldn’t be this hard right? I read bisexual people immediately knew. Most of them I think, they realized all their crushes and Fantasies they wanted in real life. I never fantasized about a women, or any girl. I remember crushing on a senior once, I felt excited to see him at school. And fantasized about him. And with my Boyfriend he was just so innocent, and cute and sweet, and when we do sexual stuff I like it. I get uhm .. wet. Sorryyy. I recently got advice to look out for any girl crushes. And I’m really scared about that now. Maybe I can crush on a girl and maybe I can’t. I don’t know anymore. I feel completely unsure of everything. Im not sure if I’m straight or not. I recently started to take quizzes again. I either got straight or bisexual. And idk can anyone give advice? Thanks for reading through all of this if you did.
My brain can’t stop trying to figure out my sexuality and it’s horrible. I can find both men and women attractive so thought I might be bi, but then I don’t often want sex with my boyfriend so I’m worried I could be a lesbian. I can identify with bi or asexual quite happily but thinking about being a lesbian fills me with so much dread and anxiety. On Saturday I had the best day with my boyfriend. I felt so in love for most of the day which was a triumph considering I’ve had ROCD for the whole of the relationship. There was a time I looked at him and I honestly could’ve cried because I loved him that much. Surely I wouldn’t feel like that if I was a lesbian? I’ve always had crushes on boys growing up, but they were always romantic ones. When I thought of love growing up it was always romantic, I always felt a little alienated because I wasn’t interested in sex and sexual acts. Now, I enjoy sexual things with my boyfriend but he has to work to get me in the mood. I’m worried this means I’m not sexually attracted to him and what this means. But the love I feel sometimes is so intense and fills me with happiness. My mind can’t rest until I’ve figured it out
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