- Username
- Ridethewave
- Date posted
- 5y ago
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 ?
So looks like I’ve hit a wall I haven’t hit ever with this ocd. If you can even call it ocd. I genuinely feel confused. Idk what’s real or not. Idk what my mind or body wants. I feel so stressed out. My thoughts don’t give me anxiety anymore and sometimes it genuinely feels like I want it and I’m just hiding it. I don’t get it. I even lost attraction to this girl I was madly interested in. I don’t know what to do anymore really. I see any dude and my mind automatically starts thinking “you’re attracted to him” literally every single guy I see. I’m not even kidding. I really don’t get what’s going on with me. I haven’t been diagnosed yet because there are no ocd specialists in my area. My mom told me once she thinks she has ocd and my aunt as well. But their ocd seems more like the “traditional” type of ocd where you can actually see their compulsions. I think I struggled from Religious ocd a few years back. Also with my ex girlfriend there was a period where I struggled with ROCD I believe but got over it. Now Hocd has definitely been the worst and what makes it worse is that I actually had a gay experience but even after that I didn’t question my sexuality. I maybe would get the ocasional “you’re gay” thought but wouldn’t pay it attention and it just went away. But now it just can’t leave my head. This has been going on since February. I used to be crazy for women, don’t know what’s wrong with me. I even had sex with the girl I really like about 2 weeks ago and really enjoyed it! But now my attraction for her seemingly disappeared out of nowhere when this hocd bull starts acting up again. I’m so tired of this.
This feels weird. I feel like I’m gay, and when I “accept” My thoughts I don’t feel good or pleasure, just this weight on my chest. Like my mind says “okay you’re gay see” but when I think of me in gay scenarios I feel no pleasure at all. Yet I lost my attraction to women. My mind still says I’m gay though I feel nothing towards men. But it appears my attraction to women disappeared as well. What is this? Why did I used to have extremely mad anxiety over gay thoughts and now that I finally faced my thoughts I feel nothing as well? Like seriously what is this. I used to be girl crazy like to another level. Now I’m not attracted to women at all apparently but when I “accept” my thoughts and say ok I’m gay, I feel nothing towards men either. Is this still ocd? And why when I do have anxiety with gay thoughts it seems like I AM attracted to men. I don’t understand this. Do any of you have any experience and share some insight?
It’s like I get anxiety towards any girl now. This feeling of First, thinking they are pretty Then, getting these series of emotions I can’t describe but there’s a hole in my stomach Last, Anxiety. A lot of anxiety. Feels like I want to *date* them These “attractions” feel so real. Like in actually gay. It’s like nothing can convince I am not anymore. It feels too real. And when I see hot guys, i Can just acknowledge they are hot now. Nothing else. I really just want to cry. It feels as if I was always like this. But for some reason it feels like I lost a part of myself. Like I lost my interest in guys. . I’ll never be with a woman, but I don’t think I’ll ever even be with a guy. The only thing I feel is anxiety. They feel too real for ocd to be behind this all, for this to just not be... real.
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