- Username
- advocate109
- Date posted
- 5y ago
I don’t think nofap is a good thing for someone with OCD. It messes up your reward system in your brain even more. And can cause or worsen issues with SOOCD. People will say it’s useful for mental health. But someone with OCD will always have anxiety around control, and making something normal and pleasurable taboo will cause problems that did not exist. If you have an addiction then theres help to be found, but don’t do nofap, thats my recommendation.
Definitely. Once I developed OCD it either caused too much stress or was only a means to compulse. No I between
I honestly believe how harsh I was over myself for masturbating is a big reason I developed OCD. Personally speaking, I started attributing certain things as being a result of me masturbating. I honestly believed my intrusive thoughts were connected to it so any time I did end up doing it I bet myself up over it. Not to say that maybe a bit more moderation wouldn't be better, but try and remove the guilt from it. It's not a bad thing so long as you're not overdoing it. Although, like @advocate109 said, if you're doing it as a compulsion, that's no Bueno
I think it has serious physiological changes to go from masturbating to not at all, everything from dopamine to steroid production will be altered. This difference in how things are regulated in the body can definetly have effects on OCD. I also has a lot of weird OCD-like thoughts when I started doing it, atleast a year later than all my friends. I was so convinced it was wrong.
No but I was wondering can porn trigger a reaction for your hocd?
@ejgh my therapist, who is one of like 25 nationally recognized OCD therapists told me that NoFap was a good idea for me. It only makes sense because people who have HOCD use porn to compulse and we want to avoid composing as much as possible.
@ejgh personally I believe that excessive porn consumption can lead to OCD or OC like behaviors AND HOCD will almost always lead to excessive porn consumption in a compulsive way.
I don’t deny that too much masturbation most likely leads to inbalances in hormones and neurotransmitters aswell, theres science reporting an increase in prolactin for example.
@ejgh not even masturbation. Porn is the problem.
Well, visual stimuli does affect hormones and neurotransmitters, but not as much as masturbation.
It's less about affecting hormones and more about avoiding checking and what not. Also porn addiction has been shown to alter brain activity in the sense that it can cause PIED and it alters brain chemistry, creates sexual neurological pathways.
Yesyes of course. I just refered to what I had mentioned earlier. You’re of course right.
New here. Looking to hear from people with SOOCD. Im a woman with a cis male partner. For several months, I’ve been convinced I’m either bisexual or lesbian. It all started after seeing tiktoks of other women questioning their sexuality, talking about how they watch wlw porn, and so on. I also only watch lesbian porn. I’ve learned a lot about comp het and thought maybe this is why i’ve never dated another woman and i’m actually attracted to women instead of men. Ever since then, i’ve felt extremely disconnected from my partner and even almost broke up with him. I find myself constantly googling searching to find my true sexual orientation. I constantly try to imagine if I could be with another woman. I’ve imagined coming out as bi or lesbian. Just recently, I learned of SOOCD. Suddenly everything is making sense. I felt relieved when I started learning about it. Though, I’m still worried I could just be bi or a lesbian in denial. Everyday I am consumed by these thoughts. I’m exhausted, confused, and depressed. All I want is to find myself again. And find answers. I love my partner, and I just want to feel happy again. If you’ve experienced anything similar, please share. I’d love to hear from you. I’m not looking for advice or answers from you, I just want to hear from others in the community.
When I was in like 3rd grade I went to a friends house and she turned on lesbian pornography. I then went home and watched it again, and again and again. This being the only pornography I have watched and “got off too”. I have always had heterosexual relationships and crushes since I was a young girl but this pornography addiction I think is what led me to SOOCD. I have always been scared of being gay and I remember telling myself when I was young when I would watch porn that “one day I have to figure this out, why do I watch this if I’m straight” and that was an ongoing question for years but I was always able to move on. So the question has always been there. But I knew I was always different. Now that I’m 20 and I’m more educated on OCD now I notice how I have always suffered from instructive thoughts just could never put a name to it. Thoughts like death, imagining scenarios and having to plan the resolution as if it will actually happen, existing ocd, all of the above. But now my SO ocd has affected every aspect of my life to where it hurts when I wakes up. And I truly question my sexuality despite loving my boyfriend of 4 years. My question is, anyone who has experienced this, how did you recover. From porn addiction and SOOCD. Does anyone have a similar experience? Please share. I feel really alone.
I’d like to have a conversation with others who struggle with SOOCD. Not for reassurance. Not for rumination. Just to share and hear each others stories. It feels better to get stuff off your chest. So I ask, how did this start for you?
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