I need help because I’m really struggling right now. There is a masc woman/lesbian athlete that came up on my tik tok and it feels like I have a crush on her. Now I keep getting intrusive sexual images about her. I don’t want to have a crush on a girl but it feels so real. I absolutely hate this and want to cry because now I feel like Im attracted to her. Has this happened to anyone else???
Ever since I have struggled with HOCD i have became really uncomfortable and get very anxious around masculine woman because i unwillingly associate them as lesbians so they are a massive trigger to me and then because I get highly anxious around them I get the thoughts ‘does that mean I am attracted to them etc etc’
Well it happened to me. When you feel anxious and scared that means that you see it as unpleasant. Your brain creates images as a result of anxiety. I recommend for you to see it as irrelevant no matter what and don't listen to those intrusive thoughts, because they're bullshit.
I've experienced this a lot recently! Sometimes the "crushes" make me feel anxious so it's more obvious that it's OCD, but other times they don't and it feels so so real!
i’ve had the same experiences lately, and what helps me is reassuring myself that i just think she’s cool! ocd can trick us that it’s something more, but i always feel better when i make a comment like “omg i can see why people are attracted to her” or (to just women is general) “she’s so cute maybe i get this out in my stomach bc i don’t like the thought of my bf being with a girl like that”. i don’t know, im not a professional but normalizing those thoughts have definitely helped me.
Hello all. I am a woman who struggles with what i assume to be hocd and have struggled with it for 3 years now. I have had false attraction on and off and have been able to let them go because i realized the anxiety behind them. Now however, i have a fear that i am secretly attracted to people of the same sex who are masculine presenting or one day i am going to feel attracted to and actuallydevelop feelings for one. Are there women that feel this way ?? Thank you advance.
I developed a crush for this girl and it feels great. But ya know, OCD did its thing and makes me feel like I don't really like her and that I like guys. It drives me absolutely mad. I even went to the gym today (which I have been avoiding) and one of the front desk guys was id say good looking and my OCD ran with that and told me I like guys and all the what if questions came roaring in. It feels really provocative to think persons of the same sex are good looking. It feels like anytime I look at a guy, my OCD tells me"oh look! you noticed him, how come you're not noticing the women?, you're gay." I get so many intrusive thoughts about any guy I look at and It feels so real. I feel defeated today. If anybody can relate, I'd like to hear.
Hi, i have been on and off with my SOOCD and I have been really good at understanding that my thoughts are just thoughts, yesterday i seen a masculine lesbian and it triggered me and I got severe anxiety because I was expecting some thoughts to come as I had been triggered. I then got thoughts “you find her attractive don’t lie”, when I seen her I do not personally think she is attractive looks wise and all that, but all my mind is saying to me now is I do and I am lying and it’s started to just get to me i just want to shut off and get the thoughts away from me😫then I seen on tiktok this person had SOOCD and then turns out they were gay and I just am spiraling.
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