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- 25w
i need help please
can someone help im confused by my actions adults only please preferably women (im a woman and feel more okay talking to women)
can someone help im confused by my actions adults only please preferably women (im a woman and feel more okay talking to women)
I’m a woman, I can try to help ❤️
@anonanon5 do you have experience with pocd or incest thoughts? i’m scared and feel sick to my stomach and need help. i’d talk to my partner about these things but i’m afraid of what they might think
@helpmeeee_ - I don't currently, but I have had both of those themes in the past (like 2-3 years ago). So I understand and I won't judge you!
@anonanon5 last year some time i was scrolling on facebook and someone had their baby as their profile picture. i got scared and wondered if i had any groinal responses so i started to recheck if i did by forcing groinal responses. i kind of zoned out while checking and then i got thoughts like “why am i still checking? this feels intentional. am i doing this because of the baby?” and i immediately freaked out because i guess it felt like i had done something very inappropriate. i ended up moving on but i had hours and hours worth of panicking. well, recently it’s resurfacing and i’m scared i had bad intentions and i’m wondering why i kept checking over and over and wondering why i didn’t stop. recently i have been getting uncomfortable inappropriate thoughts about a family member and earlier i heard them say something and i was worried that what they said was attractive to me and i got a thought like “what if i tense up? (force groinal response)” then i felt my anxiety disappear and i tensed up. immediately after i wondered why i did that and felt scared and confused. idk what to do and i feel very trapped. also just now the family member walked by and as i was standing up to avoid them i got a groinal response from standing up and im worried i did it on purpose. it feels like i purposely made the sensation happen. im trying to make it happen again and it wont. when standing up ive been trying to “push” so i dont experience any sensations down there but it doesnt work all the time and some sensations feel intentional like just now
@helpmeeee_ - So these are definitely checking compulsions, which are some of the most nefarious compulsions in my opinion. This is because checking often involves actions. Like you described: looking at something on purpose, tensing up, etc. Because you do an action to check, the anxiety that comes back on you later is so much worse and more powerful, since you have that "evidence" of you doing an action. You are dedicating a lot of energy and thought to trying to figure out your thoughts, actions, responses, emotions, and also how your anxiety reacts to them. When you spend this much time thinking and analyzing your own mind, you lose touch of your true desires and values. How you can get out of this is by promising yourself that you will stop engaging with the thoughts and feelings. For example, you said that you changed the way you stood up to avoid the groinal responses. What that does is give more power and meaning to the feeling. Instead, live your life as you normally would and RESIST going back to things to check, changing the way you move, etc. If you are able to resist those things, you take away their power and slowly go back to the peace you once knew. Plus, you avoid the extra anxiety and guilt that follow a checking compulsion. Currently, you're engaging with the OCD -- which isn't unethical or wrong -- but it will make it worse. And it will give you anxiety.
@anonanon5 thank you so much, i’ll try it’ll just be difficult to stop everything i’m tired of over analyzing everything. tomorrow i have an appointment to get medication so i’m hoping things can calm down soon after i get my medication
@helpmeeee_ - It is super hard. I tell myself that either I have to deal with the anxiety now from not compulsing, or the anxiety later that comes after the compulsion with is always worse. So you gotta pick the less bad anxiety option! Getting on lexapro changed the game for me. It helped with my OCD a lot. I hope it works out for you!
I am very depressed right now. I really feel like maybe I’ve always been a lesbian and never knew. I never questioned my sexuality when I was young, never wanted to explore, I just was straight and didn’t think anything about it, that’s just what it was. I had my first soocd spiral in late high school but didn’t have a name for it, just that I was having intrusive thoughts and it was killing me that maybe I was gay. I can’t exactly remember how I got out of that but I continued to have crushes, talking stages, and dated. It went away and that was that I guess. Looking back now I definitely was still avoiding content and certain people, and still had intrusive thoughts but didn’t think I was gay. I guess they were less sticky. Something about me is that I’ve never had a boyfriend and I’m a virgin. I’m very shy and romanticize things like I love the relationships and scenarios I read about or that I see in movies or the thirst traps online haha. So I want that irl but am disappointed when that doesn’t happen. I have a very interactive daydream (started when I was 13 and still continued that fantasy world now too) with a boyfriend, friends, and a prettier version of me. I enjoyed making up scenarios about sex or romance in those daydreams and fantasies, but when it came to real life, I would get shy or scared when things were starting to get serious with men. I thought maybe this was an avoidant attachment style but now I’m not sure. I never considered female fantasies and I still don’t want to right now. I want to test and see which one I like better, but I’m afraid I’ll find that I’m a lesbian and I really don’t want that. Ive always imagined myself with a man but now I’m worried about comphet. I’m really depressed and I can’t tell because yes, I find some women attractive whether it’s their makeup, face, body, aesthetic, but I never thought that meant I was attracted to them in a sexual or romantic way until this spiral. Now I’m afraid of masc lesbians and pretty women because it triggers me. But I’m also afraid because I feel like I can look at attractive men, but I don’t feel the same way anymore. I can’t even daydream about them bc then my brain inserts a woman. I’m really scared that I’ve lost myself, because I truly feel like I have, but I don’t want to explore with women, I just want to like men, I’ve always liked that idea. But so many lesbians talk about liking celebrities, fantasy men, or just attractive men. Sorry for the rant but I’m struggling a lot right now. I feel like all my memories, even the ones that directly contradict being a lesbian, can be explained away by comphet, internal homophobia, denial, suppression, etc. When I do try and accept uncertainty, sometimes it feels ok, but then something will trigger me and I’m back at square one. I’m afraid if I take my meds I’ll discover something about myself that I don’t want to because I’ve always been depressed and avoidant of life because it never lives up to my expectations. My sexuality is on my mind 24/7! I can’t take it!
i'm positive i was attracted to women before this got a thought when i was high thought really really deeply into and changed my life now im 24/7 scared im gay ive always been attracted to girls but early in my sexual life where im at ive always got with girls and seemed a little disapointed after would love help and to hear past experiences
*tmi warning* I'm so worried im a P. Ive been crying daily unable to do anything else but ruminate over my real events. When i was 14 (before ocd) i was watching adult content and it was censored. The woman had similar features like hair and skin color as my niece. I remember noticing that and saying "huh i guess I'll imagine that as the adult version of my niece" and I did and after i was finished i moved on and didnt think anything was wrong. I dont know if i ever thought about that again? Its so blurry ocd keeps saying i did it again in a different time but i dont remember its too blurry and its scaring me so badly! I didnt even remember this till like literally last week and i wanted to die! Im 20 for context. When I remembered i immediately broke down in tears. I vaguely rmemeber this other thought i had of her when self pleasuring when I was 16??? I think it was a testing thought out of distress? But im not sure at all! It was extremely vague image and unrealistic i dont think I liked it but maybe i did?! Im so distressed its like i remmeber 2 versions of this particular event which is why I think its ocd false memories from there. Ive been ruminating and spiraling for almost a week. I keep crying i havent ate well at all in days ive been honestly dehydrating myself and i cannot sleep. I feel like a monster. I did the mistake of researching last night and kept comparing myself to the "criteria" of those sickos and like I felt so distressed. I also have been asking ai for hours on end everyday. I feel so distressed im literally crying rn as i write this i cant calm down i feel like this sick individual even tho I dont even like thinking of that at all i dont think I meant ill intent when i was a teen but its killing me inside. I would NEVER harm anyone nor want to or plan to, deep down i know I would never act out in those evil ways but like whats killing me is what if im attracted?! Is this a sign?! Am i one of those people?! Am i attracted to my niece bc of those 2 maybe even 3(??)thoughts years ago?! Did i mean ill intent?! Am I an actual danger?! Am I a monster??? I have so many urges to confess to my mom im so scared what this all means or could mean. I feel so alone and scared. Like legit whenever i get intrusive thoughts about gross stuff i feel disgusted and anxious and push it away. Those thoughts do not bring me pleasure whatsoever but this real event is making me doubt my own identity 😔
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