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- 2y
Paranoid after telling my friend about my HOCD
The other night my friend and I were having a super deep conversation. She suffers from OCD as well, albeit a different form, but she had opened up about this and the fact that she was bisexual (which I was not aware of but thought was great), so I decided to open up about my HOCD. She was extremely understanding and super supportive about it, and even told me she was surprised to hear it since I don’t really seem like that. But I feel like after finally telling someone that isn’t a therapist about what I’m dealing with it makes it feel like I’m actually confessing and saying things to make it look different when it’s actually just me not being straight and lying about it. I thought it would help to open up about it (exposure) but now I feel like I just made it seem more real and that I’m finally being honest about my sexuality and was just saying things to make her think that I didn’t actually want these thoughts to make it seem that way. But I don’t want them. I’ve also been having less anxiety surrounding them which made it a lot worse. Like now it feels like I just confirmed my fears even though I was speaking rationally. I am a very self aware person which makes it super difficult. Just going through it right now. Smh