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- 5y ago
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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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- 5y ago
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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- 5y ago
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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- 5y ago
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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- 5y ago
do you have thoughts that say like “ this time is diferent “ ? and tysm
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- 5y ago
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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- 5y ago
Yea it is good to know. Im glad we have this forum. Same to u
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- 5y ago
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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- 16w ago
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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- 14w ago
These past few days I was fine. Minimal intrusive thoughts ,no anxiety etc(to add I'm on medication so maybe it's starting to work although it barely is 2 weeks) and today I got a sudden wave of anxiety and it started latching on some thoughts like" what if I'm in denial and I wanna break up with my bf? And what if erp doesn't work for me because I actually wanna break up with my bf?" But they didn't really stay long usually those thoughts would make me spiral for days or so, now they lasted for some hours. And now I'm trying to trigger myself into being anxious again because if I don't it means I don't have ocd and if I don't have ocd it means I don't love my bf and if I don't love my bf it means I have to break up. Idk if it makes sense but the lack of anxiety makes me wonder if I actually have ocd or not.
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- 11w ago
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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