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Ohhhh good theory never thought that before be on a look out
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yeah people really out here playing with people’s emotion with mental illness, that take people who have a mental illnesses as a advantage, if she says you have hocd just by asking a couple simple questions then he probably wants money
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Well, it was a therapist that posted it
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If you told you that it was this article that got me to relapse in HOCD after 11 years of beating it, would you believe me? No my HOCD has evolved and I wish it was just reading that article, cause it doesn't trigger me anymore. Anyways... what is your concern? He may know stuff abiut sexuality; but not about hocd clearly. If you have OCD, you just need something to trigger your fear. It can be that you have enjoyed gay porn all your life and suddenly your mind says "wait, why am I watching this? Am I gay"? In short people who watch gay porn also can have HOCD about it. That's not exactly what he's saying though...
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Psychology today is a bullshit news agency and a lot of their articles are bullshit. Of course the vast majority of people with hocd are straight people turned on by gay porn. That has nothing to do with it. OCD is obsessing over it all day long and thinking that it makes you gay to the point where you do compulsions. Normal people just watch the porn and say they're into it and move on. People with OCD cling to things that don't matter. The theme of the OCD is absolutely irrelevant.
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And just because someone is a therapist doesn't mean they're not a quack.
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What’s irrelevant???
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@GummyDrop The themes of OCD are irrelevant to the disorder. What I'm saying is it doesn't matter what theme you have, if you have ocd your brain attaches to untrue fears and glitches out. We obsess over thoughts that neurotypical people don't have an issue disregarding. All people have the thoughts that we have the difference is we think our intrusive thoughts are profound and hold meaning when they don't.
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@hateocd123 Do you know the differences between a non ocd brain and a ocd brain?
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@GummyDrop We produce more stress hormones, and we can even have some slight swelling compared to non ocd brains, but other than that doctors speculate that we either don't produce enough serotonin OR that we produce too much Glutamate and too little GABA. Glutamate is an excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain that plays an important role in things like memory and learning. When needed glutamate turns into GABA which does the opposite and kind of calms down the brain (it's responsible for the spaces in between words when we talk). Too much glutamate in the brain can become an excito-toxin and kill brain cells and spill out into other brain cells. When this happens it can't turn into GABA and our brains can't calm down. We don't really know why this happens yet. Some think diet contributes, but we really have no idea yet. Whether Glutamate and GABA, or serotonin are responsible, we know something is amok when it comes to our neurotransmitters altogether.
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@hateocd123 ? this is sad to know my brain does that
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Or at least, not because they are therapist it means they know about every condition. Certainly this guy doesn't know about ocd. Actually, the first case he cites has clear symptoms of OCD that apparently the therapsit couldn't notice...
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I never watched gay porn nor do I have the desire but I have HOCD. I actually got further triggered by straight porn lol
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Yeah seeing someone from the same sex and getting aroused is triggering to people who have hocd
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@GummyDrop I watched the porn in hoping to regain attraction then my eyes drifted on the guy and I thought “what if I’m the girl in the scene” and I slapped my laptop closed in disgust. Now I have reoccurring thoughts of if I would do what the girl was doing and it can feel like an urge but it’s not real I’m always grossed out
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@evkrey I’m grossed out by my thoughts of being a lesbian pedofile, I tested myself to see if that was true, and a image of a little girls downstairs poped up and idk if I like it or not. Sometimes I test myself to see if I even like it or not, I don’t want to be a lesbian pedofile. Is this common in hocd, please tell me I’m not the only one dumb to even think these images
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@GummyDrop Of course you're not. Testing to unwanted thoughts is as basic to OCD as basic can be.
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@GummyDrop I don’t want to give reassurance but if you’re “testing”/ “checking” stuff to see your reaction you very likely have OCD. You can conjure up any thought to make it seem real to you because you can’t handle not knowing if it is or not. That’s textbook OCD
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@evkrey I know I have ocd I just wanna be diagnosed with it so I can prove my to my mom I’m not crazy and it’s a mental illness
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@GummyDrop We can’t diagnose you because we aren’t licensed therapists/specialists but you sound like you have OCD. Show your mom this article: https://www.intrusivethoughts.org/ocd-symptoms/sexual-orientation-ocd/
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@evkrey She can’t read in English
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@evkrey I don’t wanna have pocd, I’ve already am dealing with hocd
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That's true
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I went to a therapist, I told her about the doubts I was having related to my orientation and the continuous compulsion to check again and again and the thoughts. I told her about my resources -podcasts by Ali Greymond, Chrissie Hodges 's videos, and the books I read to overcome and control myself. She said a couple of things that confused me: 1> Her daughter once asked her "what if she liked girls?" As a mom my therapist said, "Start exploring", and the daughter said naahh. I wonder if the daughter had a thought or was it a chain of intrusive thoughts that plagued her day and night like in my case. 2> She said my sources are right, but I should forget that and not think that I have ocd. 3> She also said if there is any chance I am straight, I should walk on that path- because she has seen lesbians and gays have no feelings for the opposite sex. She said she could see that I was not gay or lesbian in any way. 4> She was interested in my education and masters degrees wasted a lot of time talking about that. 5> She said all these thoughts are causing me anxiety disorders (but I don't have ocd, doc?) 6> She pointed out that being happy and in the present removes these thoughts totally but I am causing myself unnecessary distress. I was doing well before this talk with the therapist now I am triggered a bit. Please share your thoughts.
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Sorry long post. Anyone feel like now they’re just in extreme denial. Like when I was little I noticed guys more than girls in movies and was more drawn to them. I remember changing my mindset to switch that. 98%of my life has been straight until recently. I felt drawn to some guys but never thought of it sexually. Always had girl crushes dreams and porn. Now I watch porn and I feel like straight takes longer and then I go and watch gay porn and feel nothing until I tell myself it’s two attractive dudes and love is love and imagine physical sensations and then it hits like suddenly. Like I have to convince myself it’s alright. Then when I try again I can do all that but feel nothing and then straight porn works. Idk if it’s just getting a fix or the first time works with anything or what but it’s confusing. On top of that I’ve felt girl relationships including my wife maybe miss something and a guy maybe matches that feeling that but then I feel like I’d be missing something without a girl or my wife. Idk I’ve had some rough times in life with male figures in my life but idk. I feel like I have to convince myself more and more that I’m straight even more than the first time I dealt with this. Can someone relate? Please
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So I’ve talked to a couple of gay people and they all told me the same thing. They ALWAYS knew they liked guys and they have ever gotten aroused by a woman in their life. In fact they told me that they always found a woman’s body disgusting. Looking back in my life I’ve been attracted to girls for as long as I can remember even before puberty. All my fantasies were about girls and I can’t remember a time where I felt the same for a guy (because it never happened). At the end I can still get aroused by women and you can clearly see how much stupid this obsession about being gay is. Gay people can’t get instinctively aroused by a woman and like it. Groinal responses and sensations don’t mean anything because they simply do not bring joy or a feeling of desire. Instead they bring panic. I once got a groinal when “testing my reactions” and I was sitting there crying like my life is over. That’s not how genuine attraction works and no one has woken up one day feeling different and no one has been secretly gay and never noticed it and spent his whole life into women instead.
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