Anyone with HOCD lost their attraction to men yet???? My anxiety is clouding my perception. Dudes/DILFS I used to think were hot asf are now unattractive to me. My anxiety is really clouding my judgement. It caused me to have a panic attack today ?

When one is anxious it’s difficult to get attracted at all. Cortisol, adrenaline and so on, will not make you more interested. Most likely your OCD has hijacked the whole thing for now, and until you deal with it you won’t be able to think about attraction without these intrusive thoughts disturbing your feelings.

Yeah. OCD tries to put things into words ans is very much trying to analyze everything, people with OCD are not usually people who can relax and just enjoy things, we stay stuck in our heads so easily. I also find that it can take away all the good feelings you experience, cause they can be misintepreted and deemed as good feelings towards something you fear. Say I had any single good feeling of any sort while looking at a person of the same sex, then I might get intrusive thoughts. No wonder a lot of people with OCD get depressed.

Yeah. It’s strange how OCD has changed from me in 6 years since I was 20. Back then I had some HOCD and health related OCD. For two years it was almost latent. Then it came back with a tremendous fury two years ago. Since then it has been very weird, and jumping back and forth between obsessions, more focused on the compulsions more than anything else. I feel happier now than with raging health anxiety, since it caused me horrible pain. But it really nags at you..

Well yeah, that is not to mention the first 12 years. I never got treatment though, cause I didnt think it was always OCD and I despised authority and doctors/therapists. You need to treat the OCD but also yourself and your life, happiness stops it recurring. ☺️

Your brain is meant to think that every thing really scary can be real. Just try to force yourself consciously to not believe it.

Yeah, it's to the point where my brain is telling me "you're forcing yourself to find them attractive" when I do find them attractive ?? it's a whole cycle of misery

Exactly. OCD takes anything you fear and just completely runs with it. It's caused the most depression and anxiety I have ever remotely felt in my 20 years of living.

I'm in the same situatuon since a year. But I no longer have any anxiety.

I'm sorry to hear that you've been battling OCD for 6 years now ? it sucks that once you get over a theme, another one decides to pop up ??

This has happened to me with women. I’ve always been attracted to women, everything about them, but now it’s like I don’t feel anything. I will note that I’ve been depressed and have stress with anxiety. That and I’m on SSRI’s so that can take away your sex drive. Tis the life of having OCD.

Yeah same, I'm currently experiencing depression and severe anxiety. So I'm trying to take all the thoughts I'm thinking right now with a grain of salt. But it's just so hard because it feels so real and scary ?