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I feel the same way. I was doing ok with no crazy spikes. I probably had some different attractions to some guys but it was all just shrugged off. A month ago I watched Bohemian Rhapsody with my wife and daughter and there’s a scene where Freddy Mercury tells his girlfriend, “I think I’m bisexual.” She says, “No Freddy you’re gay.” I don’t know since then I’ve had so much trouble. I’m trying to do some ERP now which I’ve never done
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Thats where im at rn. I really dont want to be gay. The anxiety is gone replaced by "feelings." But it's a lie if i am and a lie if im not. But think of it this way. It's a cycle. This pattern keeps repeating and we keep falling for it. It's HOCD. People in the lgbtq+ don't go through this same cycle. They just are gay or recognize that they are and deal with that realization. Us HOCD people go through uncertainty, loss of attraction, numbness, confusion, relief for a time, then it starts again. It's hard but it'll be ok. Hope this helps.
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it is so good to know that are people that feel like us. hope u feel better, just remember u aren’t alone
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- 5y ago
i lose the attraction to women too, but i think it is pretty normal in people with hocd. i used to be really sad and crying all the time but now i just get anxious and my mind tells me that i want to be gay. it sucks, but we will get better
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I do a lot of memory ruminating back to high school and even before. Do I remember liking so and so as much as the girls, etc. I need to STOP doing that.
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do you have thoughts that say like “ this time is diferent “ ? and tysm
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Yea all the time. Like rn im soo triggered by the feelins, thoughts, and urges. Or the fact that i find girls attractive but not where i want to date them. So everytime that happens I say this is it this is where ik im gay or bi. Then i just get sad
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Yea it is good to know. Im glad we have this forum. Same to u
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I’ve also been trying to stop compulsions such as looking at Instagram girls or whatever to reassure myself of the attraction. Now it seems like I’m losing attraction to women.
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- 24w ago
I just want to know the difference of someone who is gay vs someone who is just questioning bc of ocd. Like would you hear I’m gay im gay over and over and over again in your head but it didn’t feel right? But when I say this is a waste of my time im of course straight it feels like im lying but I know im not attracted to women at all I am certain of that. But picking a label is what i can’t settle on so this is my ocd or not
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Ok so I’m a 17 year old female, and I’ve always thought I was straight. But I just really want to know how you would know the difference between so-ocd and actually questioning your sexuality. I have nothing against the LGBTQ community (in fact I am very much a token straight friend, lol) but I saw a video about comp-het recently and it sort of felt like what I was experiencing. I don’t want to be gay, I want to be with men, I want to like men, I’ve always liked men, but now I’m questioning whether or not that’s real? Because people can be gay but not want to be right? I’m single and I always have been. I think women are gorgeous, but when I try to imagine actually having any sort of romantic or sexual relationship with a woman it feels wrong, at least most of the time it does? Sometimes I’m less sure, and I’ve never been particularly boy crazy. I’ve liked maybe 2 or 3 people in my life, (not to say I’ve never found other guys attractive, but it doesn’t seem to be as often as most people) I have no particular reason to be afraid of being gay, very supportive family, safe area ect, but I don’t want to be, does that mean this is ocd, I don’t know what’s going on every time I say I’m straight I feel like I’m lying, but that might just be because I think about it so much. The idea of being with a woman doesn’t feel like something I would want, but is that just because I don’t want to want it? People online say things with so much sureness, if you feel like this it means this. Ect.
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Sorry long post. Anyone feel like now they’re just in extreme denial. Like when I was little I noticed guys more than girls in movies and was more drawn to them. I remember changing my mindset to switch that. 98%of my life has been straight until recently. I felt drawn to some guys but never thought of it sexually. Always had girl crushes dreams and porn. Now I watch porn and I feel like straight takes longer and then I go and watch gay porn and feel nothing until I tell myself it’s two attractive dudes and love is love and imagine physical sensations and then it hits like suddenly. Like I have to convince myself it’s alright. Then when I try again I can do all that but feel nothing and then straight porn works. Idk if it’s just getting a fix or the first time works with anything or what but it’s confusing. On top of that I’ve felt girl relationships including my wife maybe miss something and a guy maybe matches that feeling that but then I feel like I’d be missing something without a girl or my wife. Idk I’ve had some rough times in life with male figures in my life but idk. I feel like I have to convince myself more and more that I’m straight even more than the first time I dealt with this. Can someone relate? Please
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