- Username
- Esosa
- Date posted
- 5y ago
I’ve been seeing so many of these posts and while I’m not an expert in hocd I thought I’d share something completely personal. I’m a lesbian. It took me awhile to figure it out but I’m married to a woman now and consider myself gay. was there a point in time I may have considered myself bisexual? Sure. Were there moments I may have questioned my sexuality, absolutely. But- I never, never, never obsessed over it. I think naturally humans have the instinct to question things and occasionally doubt, the difference is with OCD, we obsess and constantly doubt and ruminate. That’s the difference I think between someone who is ocd and someone who is not ocd, regardless of the theme. Again to clarify, my ocd theme is NOT revolved around hocd. I actually have illness anxiety disorder. Good luck to you all. I know the ocd struggle seems intolerable at times (regardless of the theme). Just keep pushing.
It’s interesting to hear that from you. Because I’m literally afraid to reveal this to some people in the LGBT community and them either tell me that I’m in denial or shun me for using OCD as a way to erase their identities and experience simply because I don’t want to “accept” myself.
Litteraly same with my tocd. But let me tell u smthg, i'm gay and i don't see at all how having hocd is homophobic. I totally don't understand how lgbt can say things like that. But i feel the same with my tocd so...
Can totally understand. It seems that a lot of lgbt ppl especially on some forums are not really open on this type of ocd.
Yeah and I get where they’re coming from because people who suffer from HOCD are simply “in the closet” or questioning their sexuality without considering the intrusive and obsessive component that comes with it
Yeah because throughout the years even before I was diagnosed, I was pretty confident that I liked men, despite having constant repetitive thoughts about otherwise. I didn’t exactly know what to call it, but I had a hunch that it wouldn’t lead me to discovering that I was possibly gay or bisexual. And I also struggled with other themes in the past too (and now). It wasn’t really obvious that it was linked to OCD until I got to college, when I obsessed over this and another theme.
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.
Okay so I have been struggling with HOCD for so fucking long. I never felt like I had crushes on boys growing up but I wasn’t attracted to girls either (this was through 5th grade). Until 6th grade hit. I remember it like it was yesterday. I had the thought walking up the stairs and it was “You’re lesbian.” And ever since that thought was there and I fought it I have been dealing with all types of OCD ever since (been going on for 7 years). And only this year I found it was OCD. But it’s hard because I don’t know if I’m actually gay or I convinced myself I’m gay because I gave up and gave in. Now whenever I see I pretty girl I feel tingling. And I wanted to prove to myself that I wasn’t a lesbian so I look up pretty pictures of girls with their boobs out and I loved it. And I wanna make out with a girl so intensely. But then at the same I don’t wanna be in a relationship with a girl and I wanna marry a guy and I just desperately wanted to be like by a guy. But I get so horny whenever girls are in bikinis and stuff. But I have OCD and I’m so confused.
I’m at my friends house right now, I spent the night for New Years and I kept looking at her to much while talking. My brain immediately went to, “what if you like her?” And I got this really weird feeling in my chest and stomach, that made me panic even more... I got up and went to the bathroom and started looking on this app for something! And then I started thinking, “what if I’m bi?” That scared me more, the thought of me being with a girl makes my stomach churn... I then started to shake my head like I usually do to get the thought to go away, and it wasn’t working... WHY WASNT IT WORKING!? IS IT NOT OCD?! AM I JUST FAKING IT ALL!?! I NEVER USED TO THINK LIKE THIS BEFORE!!! WHAT HAPPENED TO ME!!! I just want to go home and cry all day...
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