Ridethewave
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- 5y
ejghejgh
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- 5y
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.
ejghejgh
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- 5y
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.
ejghejgh
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- 5y
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..
ejghejgh
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- 5y
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. ☺️
ejghejgh
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- 5y
Your brain is meant to think that every thing really scary can be real. Just try to force yourself consciously to not believe it.
Ridethewave Ridethewave
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- 5y
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
Ridethewave Ridethewave
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- 5y
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.
AruphabetoAruphabeto
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- 5y
I'm in the same situatuon since a year. But I no longer have any anxiety.
Ridethewave Ridethewave
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- 5y
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 ??
Ramblin’ GuyRamblin’ Guy
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- 5y
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.
Ridethewave Ridethewave
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- 5y
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 ?
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geodrimilis
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- 24w
Hocd is literally a clown in my head.
Like I can’t think straight. This is making me doubt everything I’ve thought about myself and even makes me feel like I like the thoughts when I know I don’t. Like I would be less anxious at a time while I still have the thoughts and my mind would go “oh so you like it you must be gay” or the other one where I’m not anxious and I think of my attraction for girls that I’ve had my whole life and my mind goes “see now you’re not into them you’re gay” like it’s so stupid but so effective. I clearly remember being into girls my whole life but my mind is making me believe that all these attractions and feelings for women were all fake or “a thing of the past”. But I can still get aroused by women but I have this weird anxiety going on which brings these sensations/feelings and it’s so weird. Today I’ve spent my whole day thinking about it like I’ve been doing for 5 months now. I know that this aint normal but my mind just won’t let me live in peace. I never cared about my sexuality cuz I simply liked women my whole life but now my sexuality is a fundamental philosophy. I hate this.
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- 23w
Those who suffer with SO-OCD and ROCD…
What’s your experience on: Losing opposite gender attraction? And, False attraction to same gender? I have both and I feel like I don’t know who I am. I can’t parent or be a husband due to the mass panic and anxiety. Just wanted to know if anyone has had both and regained theirself?
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- 20w
Does false attraction change?
When first triggered it was every male possible. I couldn’t even go shopping… it was all ages of male, all sizes, and the groinal response was non stop. Like always a feeling there. Then it calmed down but male voices… I couldn’t listen to the music I use to enjoy or movies I’ve always been interested in. Then it kinda dyed down to people who are good looking but I’ve never in my life been attracted to males and beards. I couldn’t even always say they are good looking but never had this fear, the head ache constantly pounding feelings before. Now it’s still good looking males but I’m noticing body shape now? What is this!? Soon as I see a male figure my body feeling like it goes into shock, preparing for the anxiety feeling of ‘false’ attraction. It makes me sweat, and nauseous. Is this OCD or after 32 years of loving woman now gone? I don’t really have attraction towards woman (brief moments but not how I use to be) and this makes me so depressed. I don’t want to live like this. The only thing stoping me is my children and wife.
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