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( THIS COMMENT MAY BE TRIGGERING) Hey! I’m a lesbian, and sometimes I get really bad intrusive thoughts that I’m straight. I’ve known since I was 8 years old that I was gay, so it’s part of me, it fits and it sits and I identify that way, so with any other theme it will hit a part of you, you don’t identify with. Sometimes I have thought my whole life is a lie and that I’m actually straight, it’s awful because it’s not who you are. This is from a different perspective, it’s not about whether it’s gay, straight or anything, it’s not about being scared you’re gay it’s about having something foreign in you that you aren’t. Hope this helps.
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Because its not a part of you. If You don't identify as that label It can be very scary; you might think your identity or partner is wrong as a result of it. Hopefully that clears it up a bit :)
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It is kind of insensitive, firstly because we were straight our whole lives and then We had Ocd and now we are really going through a lot because that’s not what we want for ourselves it doesn’t align with our sense of self if being gay aligned with it we wouldn’t be worrying about this.
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It's not insensitive to wonder why. I just don't understand why it would scare someone so much
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@shabby123 Yeah Well I took it too deep I’m sorry but that’s my reasoning and I feel like all of us mostly feel that way
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@Mod22 And I feel like it’s the same with most ocd themes as well like POCD and harm ocd
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@shabby123 It's not so much being gay itself that bothers us, it's our whole identity being ripped from our hands.
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@Mod22 Sorry if I caused any offense that really wasn't my intention x
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@hateocd123 Loss of control
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Thanks so much everyone I understand it a lot better. Not actually being gay that bothers you, it's about not feeling yourself and I can see why that is scary. Im on here because I have health ocd. Every ache and pain I Google my symptoms and get myself scared. I've had suicidal ocd where I thought I was out of control of my own body and was going to kill myself against my will. I really do know what it's like to have intrusive thoughts and I am here for every single one of you x
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I hope you heal too I have on and off health Ocd I understand what you going through Hocd is killing me I don’t even love living I don’t even want to live anymore not saying I wanna commit suicide but I don’t want to live
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@Mod22 I feel exactly the same. I hate being alive, but I don't want to kill myself because I don't want my loved ones to be in pain. I also have no idea what's on the other side so that's enough to scare me away from it in itself.
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- 12w ago
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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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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