- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 1y
Is SO OCD an Excuse?
What makes my situation different than someone discovering their sexual orientation later in life? How can I still be my identified sexual orientation when I have these thoughts, images and urges? Am I just using OCD as an excuse? I’ve both seen these thoughts, and have had them myself or some similar, especially the last one. Usually OCD loves to add some guilt to it to, after all when that random person whose story you read about online, who definitely told the whole story and was 100% truthful, shared their story, they accepted these thoughts. What gives you the right to deny them? What if one of your children is gay? How can you support them if you denied acting on those exact same thoughts and feelings they’re totally having? Etc. That am I using OCD as an excuse question still gets me a little bit, but nowhere near as much as before and the reason why has been learning to accept that I am different from all those people because I do have OCD! So are we using OCD as an excuse? Maybe. Maybe Not. But you and I do have this terrible illness that creates this intense doubt and extreme thoughts that our brains struggle to just move past. We’ll never know what number on the sexual spectrum we are, but we don’t need to figure it out. We are okay living the life we want whomever that is with.