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This is so relatable. I can't stop thinking that being so boy crazy when I was younger jinxed adult me ?
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I just really hope we can all get over this
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Same. You're not alone.
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I understand how you feel. But if you truly were becoming attracted to women , so be it. You don’t like it now , but many times as people get used to something , they start to become okay with it and may even grow to love it. Think about any person you’ve ever starting out disliking or hating. And as you get to know them and spend more time with them , you’ll realize they weren’t so bad after all and you can’t believe you didn’t like them before. That applies here even if it doesn’t seem that way right now. You can still be a woman who likes other women !! How does that change your identity as a woman ? It really shouldn’t because the two can go together just fine
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It's not about it changing our identity as women. It's about our identity in general. No one wants something that made them happy ripped out of their hands against their will.
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I feel exactly the same sometimes
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I know its so hard to accept this is me now
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@hateocd123 nobody said that’s something you would want ... I’m trying to help here. And I understand that , but the only way you will recover is if you accept that that part of you may have changed. I’ve been through this for many years . I think I know that it’s not fun . Don’t try it
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@hateocd123 maybe I could have worded my response better. What I was trying to say was that you have to come to terms with it as a possibility. Because constantly trying to hang onto that part of you that you do not want to lose , while understandable and relatable , is not going to stifle the cycle of OCD. It reinforces to your mind and brain that any other possibility is a threat , and that’s simply not what you want with OCD. I’m saddened that my response came off disrespectfully or ignorant. But I’ve been through this for many years as I said , so I’m just trying to help .
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@hateocd123 but you’re 100% right . I could have explained my point way better . Forget I even said anything . @hocdgirlsummer , being attracted to women wouldn’t change who you are as a person. You are more than your sexuality , remember that :) You could have the same friends , same interests , and same hobbies !! Would there be some challenges ? Maybe , but that’s okay . You could overcome those and grow as a result of them . Wishing you nothing but the best ❤️
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Okay that makes a lot of sense! I will try but its like ive lowkey already accepted it because i stopped caring for a long time. In that time i lost anxiety but it just bounced back because i still didnt feel like who i was. I was more relaxed than i was before but thats it. Its like i jusr cant be who i was without attravtion because its like my network crashed. A lot of things i liked because they somehow had maybe a link to boys but if indont like them indont know what i like. It feels just empty
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I'm starting to feel comfortable saying I just don't want to label myself. That way it doesn't feel like I'm being disingenuous to anyone. I can accept the hocd intrusive thoughts that way. Is that wrong?
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Or is that idea on the right track
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@hocdgirlsummer the crashing of your attraction will not last forever. It’s basically like having to sit with the pain for a while and just accept how you feel , and by doing that , you teach your brain that there’s no threat and your brain won’t be so frantic , which will make it so that you aren’t drained out and can feel everything you used to feel
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Can somebody please set my mind free.
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Xiiiandreww well thats basically the problem that i cant be myself like this. Why? Vecause boys actually made me happy. What my brain does is thinking i like woman. I never actually liked a woman. I never felt the way i felt for boys for woman. I have expierenced love and being in love with boys and never have i exoerienced it with woman. So basically what my mind does is slowely kill any attraction to men and start tellig my brain inlike woman but its not right andit feels misplaced it feels like im being forced to like woman and there is no way to give in or accept that if its not the true me. If if was and it felt right i wouldve gave in a long time ago to pass all this suffering. Its more that i cant be happy and cant do my hobbies and live my dreams because it all dont feel same anymore. It all feels grey and numb due to this. So if i would “accept the possibility” i would never be happy again suddenly because by doing that i wouldnt recieve the hapiness of liking and being in love with boys and i need that kind of hapiness to enjoy those things again.
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@hocdgirlsummer I get why you say that accepting it would make it difficult for you to happy but you really should not tell yourself that. By telling yourself that , you are requiring your brain and mind to believe it as well and that makes it harder to break the cycle. You definitely don’t have to say that you aren’t straight just to come to acceptance , but you should at the very least try to accept that you don’t know and can’t know the answer with 100% certainty. You are exactly the person you were before this , but anxiety has a way of making you have less energy and it drains you of your previous attraction. That’s why you have to accept it as a possibility , so you train your mind to be okay with it and you begin to realize that there’s even more to life than who you are attracted to. I know it’s hard but trust me it’s possible. People have told themselves they couldn’t be happy without being attracted to who they were attracted to before only to come to accept the uncertainty and be happy nonetheless. Once you start to embrace the fact that you don’t know , and you recognize how you feel without judging yourself or your thoughts , you’ll probably feel less drained and who you were before will start to show up again !
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For a long time I did accept it. I identified as bisexual even though deep down I knew that I wasn't really into girls. That started to cause it's own issue for me. I guess one if my obsessions is the fear of lying or being imposter. How do I fix that? It's like every possibility is a catch 22 for me. I'm damned if I do I'm damn if I don't.
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@hateocd123 that’s the perfect thing to do!! You aren’t putting any pressure on yourself to fit into a box which is great. That way you don’t tell yourself that you’re bi but you don’t tell yourself your straight either.
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I feel so sad, alone, scared and hopeless. Until two months ago there was not even the remote possibility of being anything other than heterosexual and now the idea that I could find out that I was lesbian or bisexual terrifies me to death. Everything was born from the fact that I didn't feel sexual desire towards my ex-boyfriend and I started to be afraid that it was because I was a lesbian... how can I be a lesbian or bisexual if everything was born from this? I would like to run away from myself and my head. I would really like to go back and go back to my life before. I can't take it anymore. I just want to live my life like before
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I feel awful that I keep coming on here whenever I’m down bad but oh my gosh OCD is the most painful shit that I have EVER experienced in my life and I have a physical chronic illness…. I hate to say it but I hate living right now it’s too painful… im crying as I type to the point where my stomach is hurting, I have pretty severe ocd I do have generalized anxiety and idk if that is connected with ocd but because of that I have most of the subtypes REAL EVENT OCD,POCD,ZOCD,ROCD,SOCD HARM OCD, you name it and I got it!!! a lot of also why I have have those theme is trauma growing up and involving those things^ as of right now i’m 25 and a women with the most loving boyfriend in the entire world before my ocd hit me I NEVER questioned my love and care and attraction with the love of my life I always knew I was going to marry and be with this person the rest of my life! Now with ocd it confuses me soooo much and now I think I’m gay and didn’t realize or indenial and listen I get it “don’t look for reassurance!” “It’s not the thing ocd is attacking that is the problem ocd is the actual problem!” Here’s the thing with that if I’m in a relationship and I’m gay that would mean I would have to leave that said relationship and to say that “oh yeah that stuff happens and you’ll move on” is absolutely devastating to me this is THE LOVE OF MY LIFE and your telling me that iv been lying to myself this whole time or that I didn’t realize?!?!? And that sexuality can change (even though some say it can’t google says otherwise and some people have said it can’t idek anymore) and all this other BULLSHIT I can’t take it WHY?!?! why does this have to happen why can’t I just be with my love the rest of my life?!? and yes before anyone says anything I have been attracted to girls more so when I was younger watching lesbian porn liking the body’s and fantazing them sexually it stopped when I got older but I still don’t get disgusted with women who are pretty it just makes me uncomfortable because I’m with the love of my life and before I remember talking to my partner and discussing certain childhood things I experienced and we discussed that we both could be a little bi and for certain I’m (demi sexual so I don’t even really care about looks) and I truly didn’t care!! NOW I do care even with being bi because again I don’t like thinking about anyone else but my partner but I do also know my parents are homophobic and I do think about if I am gay they wouldn’t be okay with that and I also dont want to deal with that so now I sound like in indenial right?!???? I didn’t even care about labels before my ocd it just didn’t matter but now it’s effected my sex life and it’s hard for me to enjoy sex with being so confused I’m so confused I googled everything can you still have sexual fantasies with same gender but still be straight? Can you fantasize about same gender or imagine marrying them all of it !!! And non of that disgusts me it just makes me uncomfortable AGIAN only bc I just love the partner I’m with right now!!! I’m so fucking confused do I have to leave my partner and accept that I’m gay is that going to happen in the future if I get better with ocd and find out it’s been true all along?!???
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Idk what else to title this. I was watching a film cooper video cuz why not and he mentioned smthn about wall paper customization and icons and stuff and I just kinda had a groinal response followed by the memory of me having my first crush on a woman (my friend at the time) that helped me figure out that I’m bi and I felt kinda intensely for her but that’s cuz a) it was new and b) we were kinda on again off again friends who haven’t spoken in a few years now and I’m over her entirely. It was toxic I think. She was too much like the person who bullied me in elementary school (they were friends as well so my mom made me cut her off which is. Fair. Made me really sad but eh that’s life) I saw her at prom cuz someone brought her. It was nice to see her but yeah that was it. And now I’m mentally comparing what I felt for women in the past (idk intense crush, listening to a lot of gay songs (think she by dodie) dressing semi masc cuz funky, we had nicknames for each other despite not dating or anything) to men (less intense crush but still big crush, I’ve only dated and kissed men so sparks rhere) and now I’m just slightly nauseous and worried that I don’t like men as much as I like women but I think that’s normal for any bi person? To have different levels of attraction to different genders? Idk I feel gross and icky now like I shouldn’t even be thinking about it or her cuz I have a bf. And I do look fondly upon it, now I’m nervous cuz I got more excited about her calling me a specific nickname than I do from my bf calling me honey even at the beginning? Honey felt more traditional and I love it but we do switch around nicknames and it’s always nice, not many butterflies anymore, and sometimes I get anxious when he does lately, if it’s a nickname in Portuguese. Or if he called me a shortened version of my name. What does that mean? I’m nervous now. I was doing half decently today now I’m nauseous again. I’m worried that cuz I liked the nicknames she and I had that means I don’t like the ones my bf and I have and that I just don’t like him or men cuz I’ve been feeling off around him. But I love when he calls me honey, it still feels good when he does it now but no butterflies. Idk what’s wrong with me. Is it even ocd at this point. Even if I do like women slightly more it doesn’t erase that I love my bf. I’m worried I’m leaning too much towards women tho and I’m a lesbian. Idk if my bi cycle is cycling or if I’m just a lesbian entirely cuz I don’t feel much when my bf takes off his shirt, sex feels different, and things feel stale and slow. But maybe that’s cuz I’m checking and comparing. Now I’m anxious fuck. I’m trying not to think about her idk why. I’m worried I still find her attractive or am attracted to her or smthn. She’s in my city. I didn’t care before but now I do. Or if I think about her I’ll think about other women and will only want to have sec with women which not really tbh. I wanna be able to enjoy sec with my bf. It just hasn’t felt right lately cuz I’ve been so depressed and obsessive. I wasn’t obsessing much last night when we had sex but it still didn’t feel passionate. It didn’t feel uncomfortable but I thought it’d be more? Idk. I know it’s normal to not feel him inside me cuz the vagina isn’t very nerved up compared to the clitoris but it felt like more the motions. But tbh. I needed it. Idk I wanted to have sex and it was a nice stress relief. I just didn’t feel butterflies which kinda bummed me out but we’ve been having sex since august so that’s normal. Idk. I haven’t been able to fantasize about sex. The fact that I’m bi makes all of this so confusing. Cuz yes hypothetically I can enjoy the thought of sex with a woman. But I don’t want to rn cuz I’m dating a man. And I can’t fantasize about sex with him cuz I’m getting intrusive thoughts about my friends and I having sex. I have this urge to watch porn cuz it’s been a while but I’m not going to. I’ve cut down a lot on masturbation. Partially cuz this partially cuz I wanna do things with my bf (when I’m mentally ok) but jow my brain is saying “Oo you think all these women are so hot you’re gonna go feral blah blah blah” and yes women are hot but I don’t wanna have sex with a woman. Idk saying women are hot doesn’t bring me anxiety but the thought of sex with one or leaving my bf and saying I’m a lesbian bother me. Cuz I know it’s not true. I love him I know that. I’d be happy if we stayed together. I wouldn’t regret a thing honestly. I like having sex with him. Idc if it’s not like porn or the movies. As long as I’m being pleasured and he’s being pleasured we’re good. That’s what sex is about. I think the loss of butterflies is normal cuz the excitement of like (sorry tmi) fingering and oral eventually wears off right? But still feels good. I don’t feel as excited about intimacy anymore cuz we have done it so often but it still feels nice. But my brain perceives that as me not liking sex with men and therefore I’m gay. No I just don’t feel the need to jump his bones every single time I see him?? Idk the friend thing is bothering me. Idk if I feel any joy behind it. The groinal response really really throws my perception off
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