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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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Idk what else to title this. I was watching a film cooper video cuz why not and he mentioned smthn about wall paper customization and icons and stuff and I just kinda had a groinal response followed by the memory of me having my first crush on a woman (my friend at the time) that helped me figure out that I’m bi and I felt kinda intensely for her but that’s cuz a) it was new and b) we were kinda on again off again friends who haven’t spoken in a few years now and I’m over her entirely. It was toxic I think. She was too much like the person who bullied me in elementary school (they were friends as well so my mom made me cut her off which is. Fair. Made me really sad but eh that’s life) I saw her at prom cuz someone brought her. It was nice to see her but yeah that was it. And now I’m mentally comparing what I felt for women in the past (idk intense crush, listening to a lot of gay songs (think she by dodie) dressing semi masc cuz funky, we had nicknames for each other despite not dating or anything) to men (less intense crush but still big crush, I’ve only dated and kissed men so sparks rhere) and now I’m just slightly nauseous and worried that I don’t like men as much as I like women but I think that’s normal for any bi person? To have different levels of attraction to different genders? Idk I feel gross and icky now like I shouldn’t even be thinking about it or her cuz I have a bf. And I do look fondly upon it, now I’m nervous cuz I got more excited about her calling me a specific nickname than I do from my bf calling me honey even at the beginning? Honey felt more traditional and I love it but we do switch around nicknames and it’s always nice, not many butterflies anymore, and sometimes I get anxious when he does lately, if it’s a nickname in Portuguese. Or if he called me a shortened version of my name. What does that mean? I’m nervous now. I was doing half decently today now I’m nauseous again. I’m worried that cuz I liked the nicknames she and I had that means I don’t like the ones my bf and I have and that I just don’t like him or men cuz I’ve been feeling off around him. But I love when he calls me honey, it still feels good when he does it now but no butterflies. Idk what’s wrong with me. Is it even ocd at this point. Even if I do like women slightly more it doesn’t erase that I love my bf. I’m worried I’m leaning too much towards women tho and I’m a lesbian. Idk if my bi cycle is cycling or if I’m just a lesbian entirely cuz I don’t feel much when my bf takes off his shirt, sex feels different, and things feel stale and slow. But maybe that’s cuz I’m checking and comparing. Now I’m anxious fuck. I’m trying not to think about her idk why. I’m worried I still find her attractive or am attracted to her or smthn. She’s in my city. I didn’t care before but now I do. Or if I think about her I’ll think about other women and will only want to have sec with women which not really tbh. I wanna be able to enjoy sec with my bf. It just hasn’t felt right lately cuz I’ve been so depressed and obsessive. I wasn’t obsessing much last night when we had sex but it still didn’t feel passionate. It didn’t feel uncomfortable but I thought it’d be more? Idk. I know it’s normal to not feel him inside me cuz the vagina isn’t very nerved up compared to the clitoris but it felt like more the motions. But tbh. I needed it. Idk I wanted to have sex and it was a nice stress relief. I just didn’t feel butterflies which kinda bummed me out but we’ve been having sex since august so that’s normal. Idk. I haven’t been able to fantasize about sex. The fact that I’m bi makes all of this so confusing. Cuz yes hypothetically I can enjoy the thought of sex with a woman. But I don’t want to rn cuz I’m dating a man. And I can’t fantasize about sex with him cuz I’m getting intrusive thoughts about my friends and I having sex. I have this urge to watch porn cuz it’s been a while but I’m not going to. I’ve cut down a lot on masturbation. Partially cuz this partially cuz I wanna do things with my bf (when I’m mentally ok) but jow my brain is saying “Oo you think all these women are so hot you’re gonna go feral blah blah blah” and yes women are hot but I don’t wanna have sex with a woman. Idk saying women are hot doesn’t bring me anxiety but the thought of sex with one or leaving my bf and saying I’m a lesbian bother me. Cuz I know it’s not true. I love him I know that. I’d be happy if we stayed together. I wouldn’t regret a thing honestly. I like having sex with him. Idc if it’s not like porn or the movies. As long as I’m being pleasured and he’s being pleasured we’re good. That’s what sex is about. I think the loss of butterflies is normal cuz the excitement of like (sorry tmi) fingering and oral eventually wears off right? But still feels good. I don’t feel as excited about intimacy anymore cuz we have done it so often but it still feels nice. But my brain perceives that as me not liking sex with men and therefore I’m gay. No I just don’t feel the need to jump his bones every single time I see him?? Idk the friend thing is bothering me. Idk if I feel any joy behind it. The groinal response really really throws my perception off
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Sometimes I think " do I like kids?" "Would i get aroused if I saw content with kids?""What if I'm a pedo and cant accept it?" "What if I'm ok with these thoughts?" "What if I'm not distressed enough " "What if I enjoy these thoughts?" , i avoid kids as much as i can, i cant look at them bc I'm scared I'm gonna have some groin like response. I keep testing if I'd get turned on or if I'd have some groinal response to sexual scenarios with kids. Sometimes I think that if I took my life this would be over and i wouldn't have to think about this and i wish i doubted something else instead of things like this. I had similar situations just with different topics such as if i loved or found sexually appealing a guy while in a relationship and i kept asking myself those questions for months and i avoided going to school for weeks and when I went I'd cry and have anxiety attacks. I had it with past actions i obessed over and felt the need to exploit every detail and be honest because otherwise i was being a fraud. I had it for sexual things that happened when i was a child. Im not diagnosed with ocd but should i tell this to my local counselor? Can someone help? Give me advice or tell me anything?
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I’m 25 and never ever thought this before my soocd relapse. I have a bf of 5 years. Never been a high libido kinda girl. Don’t get me wrong I do get turned on by my bf but not like every day you know? - That had always been in the back of my head, is this normal and ok? But my ocd has latched onto the most scariest what if EVER. My brain is now saying How do you know you won’t prefer to sleep and kiss girls if you haven’t tried it: and it’s that unknown that is scaring the shit out of me. I DONT AND NEVER HAVE wanted to sleep / kiss a girl. But now my intrusive thoughts is all I think about!!! I don’t want I don’t want I don’t want??? So why does my brain think BUT WHAT IF??? I know ocd thrives off uncertainty which is why I think this is happening? But I don’t wanna find out or work it out because all I want is to be with my bf and marry him!! Is this just the epitome of OCD?
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