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Agreed. Treatment is definitely the course of action you want to take with any form of OCD. Please don't underestimate it or the necessity of it. Speaking from experience, treatment has helped me a ton. I was in between a rock and a hard place with my ocd when I started to see my psychologist. But she's been so nice and so helpful with providing articles, information, exercises and books to help me that I am really doing much better. Please take it from us. Therapy helps TONS. :) Hope this helps! Have a wonderful day and see you around the NOCD message boards!
From my interpretation of what you said, I feel like you spend significant amount of time struggling with OCD. OCD will stay with you forever but once you are treated, OCD becomes manageable. If you go into remission during your treatment, your current theme goes away. Infact the only way to go into remission is when you defeat your current theme. Once a theme is defeated, there is 90%(my assumption) chance of it not coming back if you really go into remission. OCD is a parasite, you are it's host. The thought that it will stay forever or it will go away on it's own is OCD thought because it doesn't want you to get rid of it from you. I have seen and heard stories of people completely ruining their life, their relationships, their social life due to mental illnesses with no treatment. Get treatment and you will realize how much better your life and reality will become.
I relate to everything you said. Not anymore but about a year ago- it gets better. I made a long post about my advice to get through it. I’m unsure if you are able to access that or find it but if you want I can copy and paste it for you?? If you’ve already seen it- just wanna at least ready out and say- I have related to EVERYTHING you said in this post, you’re not alone, and although not “cured”- OCD is a treatable disorder and can get better. Just lmk if you want me to copy and paste my advice post here if you can’t find it... things get better I know it seems like that’s not true right now but it will.
How is your therapy going?
I don’t go to therapy
Why not?
I keep thinking this’ll die out on its own
It won't, if it was supposed to, it would have long time ago. Ask yourself, has things got better? Like do you spend less time obsessing? Do you do less compulsions than before? What about your anxiety? Has it gotten better? If things have gotten better over time, then maybe you are becoming your own therapist (which is the ultimate goal of any therapy). But if not, then you are just lengthening your suffering. If things haven't gotten better, you should really go to a therapist.
I suppose i just can’t seem so stop questioning and analyzing. My anxiety sort of stopped. The mornings are really bad. It’s feels so damn real I can’t and don’t want to deal with this. I never thought my sexuality would be this much of an issue. I can’t do this anymore. I have a strong feeling this will stick around forever. Because I don’t want to break up with my boyfriend and date a girl. But then it feels like I do but I just don’t want to and I keep going back and forth with myself.
*ocd vent/story because i am not so sure if it’s ocd anymore* I always have anxiety attacks because of my ocd. I used to have ocd concerning how I looked like, with ticks and everything. I started comparing myself to every girl i found and that’s how I started noticing pretty people, mostly girls because i kept comparing myself to them. I told my parents and all they did was give me reassurance. it kind of made me feel better but just for the night. I had an anxiety attack every. Single. Day. I cried because of how my face looked like. But then, my hocd thoughts started out of nowhere with a dream where I was kissing my girl best friend. I was disgusted by it. I clearly remember in the dream that she enjoyed it more than me. I didn’t enjoy it at all. That’s when those thoughts about my body left me. I was completely surprised by it since I that came out of nowhere, I’d never had felt like that before, and I knew it was fake. Well, I dropped it and then around 2 weeks later I saw a friend and all I could think about was “what if I like her” and everything. I gave myself reassurance with quizzes online to see if I was bi and it said no so I dropped it again and didn’t really think about it. Then, again, 2 weeks later the thought came out of nowhere when I was watching a video. Then I first started thinking I could be bi. But again I woke up one day thinking I was a lesbian and those thoughts didn’t leave me alone. I started crying every single day because of them. I couldn’t even watch a movie with girls in it because it made me feel anxious. I slowly started losing my attraction then. I found out about hocd and i instantly knew that was me. Well, I was disgusted by being intimate with girls. But then my ocd kept getting worse and worse until I didn’t know if I would like them or not. Every single guy or girl I saw I imagine to see if I could like a relationship with one. When I see a hot guy and can’t imagine myself with one I put myself down because my head keeps using that as evidence. Every couple I see I now think the girl is pretty than the guy and it really bothers me. I can see a hot guy and feel nothing. The worse thing is I used to have a small crush before this happened. I hate this, I feel lost and I don’t know what to do. My head keeps telling me “you’re a lesbian” even when I am not doing anything. When I am happy I put myself down because my head keeps telling me “you’re a lesbian” and I think I am going to disappoint my parents. Or when people talk about my sisters boyfriend I just can’t imagine myself with a boyfriend anymore, all I could think about is the word “girlfriend” and it really bothers me. I keep thinking If i am ever going to be as close with a guy as my sister is with her boyfriend- always kissing him. But when I try imaging it and intrussive thought of a girl comes along. Sometimes they even are of how my life would be with a girl, and it makes me so anxious and fearful because i don’t know if I would like it or not, i don’t really know what i am feeling anymore. I am not ready to have a relationship yet but it would be nice to not have these thoughts and know for sure. Sorry if this is so long, I just don’t know anyone that’s having the thoughts I am having right now concerning my ocd, I am not sure of anything anymore.
So looks like I’ve hit a wall I haven’t hit ever with this ocd. If you can even call it ocd. I genuinely feel confused. Idk what’s real or not. Idk what my mind or body wants. I feel so stressed out. My thoughts don’t give me anxiety anymore and sometimes it genuinely feels like I want it and I’m just hiding it. I don’t get it. I even lost attraction to this girl I was madly interested in. I don’t know what to do anymore really. I see any dude and my mind automatically starts thinking “you’re attracted to him” literally every single guy I see. I’m not even kidding. I really don’t get what’s going on with me. I haven’t been diagnosed yet because there are no ocd specialists in my area. My mom told me once she thinks she has ocd and my aunt as well. But their ocd seems more like the “traditional” type of ocd where you can actually see their compulsions. I think I struggled from Religious ocd a few years back. Also with my ex girlfriend there was a period where I struggled with ROCD I believe but got over it. Now Hocd has definitely been the worst and what makes it worse is that I actually had a gay experience but even after that I didn’t question my sexuality. I maybe would get the ocasional “you’re gay” thought but wouldn’t pay it attention and it just went away. But now it just can’t leave my head. This has been going on since February. I used to be crazy for women, don’t know what’s wrong with me. I even had sex with the girl I really like about 2 weeks ago and really enjoyed it! But now my attraction for her seemingly disappeared out of nowhere when this hocd bull starts acting up again. I’m so tired of this.
Okay so I have been struggling with HOCD for so fucking long. I never felt like I had crushes on boys growing up but I wasn’t attracted to girls either (this was through 5th grade). Until 6th grade hit. I remember it like it was yesterday. I had the thought walking up the stairs and it was “You’re lesbian.” And ever since that thought was there and I fought it I have been dealing with all types of OCD ever since (been going on for 7 years). And only this year I found it was OCD. But it’s hard because I don’t know if I’m actually gay or I convinced myself I’m gay because I gave up and gave in. Now whenever I see I pretty girl I feel tingling. And I wanted to prove to myself that I wasn’t a lesbian so I look up pretty pictures of girls with their boobs out and I loved it. And I wanna make out with a girl so intensely. But then at the same I don’t wanna be in a relationship with a girl and I wanna marry a guy and I just desperately wanted to be like by a guy. But I get so horny whenever girls are in bikinis and stuff. But I have OCD and I’m so confused.
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