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False attraction(pls help)!
Can anyone talk I really need some questions answered please
Can anyone talk I really need some questions answered please
hi!! i'm not super experienced but i deal with this myself. so i can try and help, what's up?
@milly.909 It’s my birthday today and 10 months ago I started feeling uncomfortable around my friend cus I was having very disturbing and unwanted sexual thoughts abt them it made me feel physically ill to be around him to the point where I started getting high whenever I had class with him and I started avoiding him and now I feel super guilty for doing that because I think he thinks I’m mad at him or hate him but I don’t and he hasn’t said happy birthday yet and now I’m scared this means that I like him because I wanted him to say happy birthday I’m trying not to let it ruin my day but I feel so guilty
@suspectedocd3!!R happy birthday!! don't feel guilty, it's so normal to expect/wait for a happy birthday! remember true attraction makes you feel happy and excited to be around that person, it's makes you feel positive and you'll know when you truly find someone attractive. false attraction is so difficult though because it can mimic your body's reactions so easily like increased heart rate, being nervous, staring. but remember if your feeling negative, even to the point you feel sick it's not true attraction. try your best to just sit with the thiugh and even reply with "maybe, maybe not". i'm still struggling with this myself, but remember i've only has the power to control you if you let it, so maybe dint avoid him and try talking to someone. you got this!!
@milly.909 Thank u do you think maybe I should try to talk to him because I feel like it would clear things up cus I think he’s mad at me but I don’t want my brain to mistake it as me wanting to just text him
@suspectedocd3!!R i would clear things up and see how he's feeling. but don't feel the need to share your intrusive thoughts / ocd with him just because you think it'll help. take your time, you got this!
@milly.909 Thank u
@milly.909 hey! im replying to your thread because im extremely confused, ive been having false attraction towards this dude, and i did avoidance and absolutely everything, and well basically recently, thr anxiety whrn i see him has started to go away and tell me im attracted to him, but i still ruminate? but i dont get the anxiety or whatever. and idk what it is? or why. but its not as bad? and i feel like im started to find him genuinely good looking, but at the same time im like no, and in fear of finding him good looking and the idea of literally saying “maybe i am, maybe im not” is giving me anxiety and my mind will be like “imma leave my boyfriend and be with him” it gives me anxiety also..???
hey there! i'm here for you! i totally get the urgency—when those questions start swirling, it can feel overwhelming! i’ve been there myself with my own obsessions and know how tough it can be. feel free to share what’s on your mind, and i'll do my best to help! we're all in this together~ remember, you're not alone!
@vasqueztim Well right now I feel kinda bad, I made a joke to my best friend about a girl I like and I think she got annoyed she replied with “it’s too early for this shit” and now I’m spiraling a bit because I feel like she takes me as a joke like there’s no point of me having a crush on this girl because it won’t go anywhere and she wouldn’t be wrong I have this fear of ending up alone because of my looks and tht made it spiral a bit but other than that I’m ok
hey there! i'm here for you! ~ i know how overwhelming it can feel when you're in the thick of it. i've been through similar moments where i felt stuck and needed answers asap. just know you're not alone in this—reach out whenever you need! we're all in this together and it does get better! 💪✨
TW So I haven’t been diagnosed with pocd, but many ppl said that I have it. I was in bed when I remembered this time when I first started experiencing what I hope is false attraction not actual pedophilia, I’m looking back on it rn n I’m worried it wasn’t false attraction, I remember feeling a sense of attraction when I saw that kid, I was about14 at the time and the kid was 11 or 12. I remember constantly searching to see if it was normal for a 14 year old to like a 12 or 11 year old, I was worried when I was doing that i think, I also kept walking pass her to look at her i think to check if i was attracted or not, but it makes me worried that I was attracted to her because im worried that i did it bc i was actually attracted. now looking back on it rn, I don’t feel panic, worry, shame, or guilt, I originally only felt panic and worry, never shame or guilt. Now I don’t feel any of it, not feeling panic and worry now makes me think that I am a p, I don’t want to be a p. I hope im not a p, Ive talked to a therapist and they’ve said that it’s pocd, but it wasn’t a official diagnosis, I’m worried it was a false diagnosis because I lied on one or two of the questions. I also constantly get senses of what I hope is false attraction when I see some kids, I keep trying to figure out if it is real or false attraction. Can someone give me some advice please
I was scrolling on insta and I saw a post of a kid, I felt a sense of attraction, idk if it was false or not. I hope it was, I got worried and the kid kept popping up in my head, I kept trying to stop it because I can’t stand not doing anything and feeling attracted, I don’t wanna be attracted to kids, im fucking tired of having to deal with all of this every day. I can’t tell if it is real or false attraction, all of this is so annoying, I can’t even listen to music properly without feelings of attraction showing up. I’m not able to tell if it’s false attraction or not anymore at all, it feels way to real to know, I keep hoping that it’s all false, and I hope that I have pocd not actual pedophilia because I was never disgnosed, I was also exposed to porn at a young age, and I’m worried it causes pedophilia. Please help me with these attraction feelings I can’t tell if they’re real or not anymore. I can’t even tell if I’m distressed, panicked, disgusted, or shamed. I don’t feel any of those feelings anymore, idk why, idk how to deal with this stuff anymore, I don’t even know if I have ocd or not, I’ve only ever gotten one short diagnoses that said I have ocd but I lied on 2 questions about feeling arousal which I do, idk why, and the other about liking the thoughts, which I said I didn’t, but in reality I don’t know if I do or not. Also only certain kids trigger the attraction feeling, it makes me worried I’m a pedo because it’s only certain kids that cause it, kind of like a “type” (edited)
okay, so when i first started getting involved with guys, i wasnt really the nicest person when it came down to it and so, i started talking to this guy. His name in this is gonna be James well I liked this guy, and yk I was just there, I didn’t really like relationships or anything. Wasn’t big on them whatever. Well his friend Jeremy starts taking an interest into me. So I’m like why not? And go for it. And when I did he wasn’t my type at all. I wasn’t attracted to him, like maybe at the time I like had to convince myself he was attractive. And you know, he wanted to get together, this was my first sense of a relationship at all. But I didn’t fantasize about being with him or anything and like hardly thought about him also But we wasn’t together? Just talking. And he’d like talk to other girls. And just everything like that whatever. Well he got with this girl named Mallory and I like was upset. And so I homewrecked it. But when I did I was glad the attention was back? But he asked for a relationship I didn’t want it. And I homewrecked a few more times, and well then. Me and this girl became friends. I forgot about this guy for like months. And then randomly one time I was at his cousins house for an event. And he was there with a different girl. And I was just hanging out with him? I wanted him to find me attractive and what not. But I didn’t want romantically involved with him? well, then we go out of contact for a year, I meet other guys, don’t think about this dude at all. Whatever I get in a relationship with a guy and then break up, and i talked to this guy who slightly looked like jeremy and my sister brought it up. but i only talked to the guy because i wasn’t supposed to? so it made me want to more. and i thought about jeremy once, not missing him or anything still not thinking about Jeremy then I get with my current boyfriend, who I’ve been in love with for two years now? Been together 5 and our past was really horrible a lot of girls and what not guys too? But then. We get together whatever, I love it. I was always worried about other girls, if I’m in love, if this is what I want?, and everything like that, and then it was like everything I did? I’d tell him, talking to a guy, getting intrusive thoughts about them whatever. Then I get an intrusive thought about Jeremy. and it was like horrible. something about his arms? And it’s like my boyfriend told his friends. And his girlfriend found out. the same one I homewrecked my bestfriend, and then it was horrible like the past coming back, and I hated it and I avoid seeing this dude, talking to him, I’d look at him just to see if I’d get the anxiety in my stomach like I couldn’t look at pictures videos or in person without getting sick but I’d feel the need to look? For the feeling of anxiety and the sickening feeling, and I’d tell my boyfriend everytime I looked at him or anything it was horrible, well then it gets horrible, intrusive thoughts about leaving my boyfriend, or comparing him to my boyfriend, or wondering things, or that it’s feelings, and I’d just drive me crazy, like i wont get phone cases, he had or looked similar, emoji’s he used. or anything like that i wont wear his favorite color absolutely nothing. like crying on my boyfriends chest over it. And we broke up over it. The thoughts went away for the couple of hours, I didn’t think of them or anything but as soon as me and him broke up I looked at a pic of Jeremy to see how I felt then I didn’t think of anything else I just wanted to be back with my boyfriend, now we are back together and it’s still happening and the guys name just pops up if I’m like “I love my boyfriend” his name pops up. Or randomly out throught the day, I forgot about it for a little then I’m fine but I went to a therapist and she said intrusive thoughts and ocd and another said that plus anxiety but I need help. I need answers or what other people think. I’ve looked into everything I’ve puked and made myself sick over it so much it’s been a little over a month now. it’s died down after he got a buzz, and school let out. But idk what it is. and my mind constantly wants to figure out the past? and tell me that if i unblock him it will get better? idk. i think in the past it was a false crush?? or something. or i just enjoyed the validation and attention from him.. but when he called me nicknames id be like “omg!!” and freak out? like i cant rmb in a good or bad way. i didnt remember it until my friend mentioned it. please help me.
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