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There are a lot of pretty women out there though ? No shame in acknowledging it.
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No true but it makes me feel gay lol
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It sounds more like curiosity than ocd. Your curious about the female body, which draws you to look at them more. For me, I’m drawn to men and when I was first exploring my sexuality (openly gay man) I’d do normal things... fantazise about Male celebrities, drool over boys in school, watch gay porn. I won’t say it’s normal as Idk what “normal” could be defined as in this case, but I’ll say it’s certainly a lot more common than not. I will say, it may be consider OCD if there’s something additional that draws you to a certain type of woman. Like if your woman HAS to have the right sized eyes, or boobs since they have those too, or if she can’t have a certain type of ear lobe or her eyelashes have to be a certain color. But just general attraction is ok!
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Okaaaay so this made me shit my paaaants. Bruh i used to drool over boys my whole life i always likedd boys ans neevr liked girls in that way and thinking about that gibes me Maaaajor anxiety. Like major i have panic attacks over it. But im trying to be more calm about it so i posted about it very casualy so it didnt look like ocd to see what people would think but like being obsessive over attravtion made me lose attraction over boys which is why i dint feel any. All i can say is that what my ocd is trying to force me to feel, feels nothing like the real thing. Ive been in love i know what its like and this attracrion towards woman that my hocd is creating feels nothing like it, it feels like anxiety. But sometimes hocd girls relate w me that they look at woman even tho they dont want to be with them or something its a common thing under us hocd Girls. Idk if this sounds bad but me thinking about being with a woman makes me sick to the stomach, i hope that didnt sound offending or homophobic because i litteralt dont mind it if other people are with the same sex but for myself it like doesnt fit and its soo not the right place for me. Hocd makes me force to be gay in my head but it feelss so horrible. Im praying everyday for my attraction to men to come back. I miss how men made me feel. They made me feel the real thing and i miss it so much. Thank u for commerning tho but it was kinda triggering but its okay :)
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@hocdgirlsummer From the way i put my post together i get why you would think its curiosity but theres like a whoooole background of anxiert behind it lol. I cant put it in words how wrong it would feel for me to date with the same sex like trust me up till my 16 i never shed a thought about it i was living my best life being in love with Harry styles, bradd pit johnny Depo leo, u name it litteralt everyboy from my school until the though : “what if im gay” blew my head up...
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@hocdgirlsummer That is very concerning that you do get anxiety from women and your attraction toward them. Is there maybe a deeper connection to the anxiety than just general though? Such as, was a female character in your life sexually or romantically active with other women? Was there any sort of aggressive relationship between you and another friend, girl wise, that may have lead you to have anxiety about how she’s coming off onto you (in a normal respectable way thats not homophobic)? Were there any abusive men in your life such as a relative, friend, or partner? I’m not saying everything has to lead back to a reason with OCD but it might be a start if you’re able to analyze your past to determine the root cause’ so then maybe facing your triggers has more clarity. I understand how it feels having this anxiety, I’ve had sexual attractions to abusive men in my life for no apparent reason.
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@DrewRose No not at all i haven’t experienced any of that. I get anxiety because my brain tells me i want to be with them but thats not my nature. Its like a gay person being forced to be straight and be with the opposite sex but for me its like my brain forces me to be with the same sex. So it feels like all i ever knew is a lie because ive always liked boys and then suddenly hocd tells me im gay. What happens is that i start obssessing about the question and i start analzying everyrhing about sexuality. So then my attraction towards men went away cause the anxiety and analyzing if im not maybe gay even tho ive never liked a girl or saw one in a sexual way. Its like girls all my live have been like sisters and not any sexual or romantic at all and then suddenly my thoughts tell me that i like girls sexually and it gives anxiety because when ik with my best friend my brain keeps saying to me: you like her you like her you liker her while she is my freaking best friend and ive never never wanted to be with her in that kind of way trust me i still dont but the thought of it gives ke anxiety. Its called hocd its a whole thing i cant really easily explain it. Its a feeling and it is verg confusing but at the end im not at all who i used to be. Because hocd twists my mind so much to thinking jm gay that i forget what its like to actually like someone and that changed me so much for the worse. Im depressed and have anxiety a lot now bevause of being scared of litteraly every woman because ik scared thst i *may* be attacted to her. Evrything before hocd was normal and i never got any anxiety from no sex. And thats how i know i like boys. Bevause they made me actually happy and made me feel in love and made me feel warm and i craved being loved by a man. Even tho my mind is all twisted and yells at me everyday thst i wanna be with a woman even tho i dont i still know what i truly love and even if i dinr feel it anymore i will fight for it because i wanr to be happy like i used to. If i liked woman i wouldve felt the happy and warm feeeling with rhem but all i feel is anxiety. And with men i did feel the good feeling but overanalyzing my attraction towards them made me lose the attraction. This also happens to gay people, they get a thiught like am i maybe straight? And then they cant stop obssesing about if theyre maybe straight instead of gay because all their life al they knew is liking the same sex but then suddenly their brain tells them non dtop they like the opposite sex and t gives u so much anxiett because that would change your whole life but like it aint even releveant because they dint like the opossite sex but their brain is convincing them and brings back every little memorie in their brain to where they might have said something as a joke like: lol im straight again because they saw like a good looking person frol the opposite sex but they dont actually mean it. Like in the past ive said about rihanna or somethig like haha im gay for her but as a joke. Now with hocd thinking about that gives me the most anxiett because it take eveything waaay to serious. Even tho im aware of that i cant stop feeling the anxiety from it. So hocd grabs you at every single point in ur life that u did or said somethinf without sexual intension towards the same sex and then now, years later it tells me that it was sexyally and then im scared that thats true even tho i know t isnt. Like with the looking at woman i lowkey know ts bevause i look at woman because they got on clothes i would like to wear or theyre jusr pretty but that doenst mean i wanna be with them it means that i wanna be like them. But i posted my post because i wanna get reassurement from people so they say like, i can relate i have his too but its part of hocd. In the back of my mind i know thats the case but i always need reassurement for it. It was like a compulsion. The worst part about this is losing the attravtion to men because that litteraly made me depressed because i always was in love and had a looot of crushes and suddenly its gone. I miss it with my whooole heart
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Well, I can tell you that there are no certainties in life. You’re not certainly straight nor are you certainly gay... you are just... you, anxiety set asside! The HOCD you are referring to might limit you on your attraction to others but it doesn’t hold you hostage from being yourself. The issue you have here is you hear a nagging voice telling you to like her, not him, a nagging voice that is your anxiety, a nagging anxiety that’s causing compulsive thoughts. The good thing is, there is treatment for this anxiety that I rest assured can improve your mental state and give you peace of mind! I understand what it means to want to look like someone else... there are men AND women I’d love to look like. Right now, I’d be in heaven if I could have the looks of Ryan Reynolds... but part of me would not be upset if I looked like Kim Petras (that girl could turn me straight! ?)... I think these are the little quirks we get to have in life that make us humans... we are curious to have lives with others, to BE others, to sexually commit to others... but essentially it’s all just human behavior. Humans are jealous and curious and it’s both a blessing and a curse haha
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Yeah true, but its so hard because before hocd everything was simple and i could joke around and i jusr didnt have to think about all this. I jusr lived my life and thats what made me happy. Also just not having any problems with attraction loss or the fake attraction to woman made me so carefree and i miss that. I jusr cant not worry about it. Its on my mind 24/7 littersly its my world. I live in hocd’s world and not mine anymore. I deadass cant enjoy anything anymore. Its always like why dont i feel happy, why dont i feel any excitement anymore. Its bevause im always stressed but idk how to get the stress away. I always had a passion for makeup and clothes but now i dont get the feelings thst i used to when i practise my passions. Life became so empty and numb. And its sad because i know how joyful it can be but im missing out on all of it because of this. Even music cant make me feel anythinf becaus eits always about a boy or woman and boom, i start analzying again. Or its about love and it makes me sad because i feel like i caan never naturally fall in love again without obsessing or analazying or at least ask myself once if im truly attracted to the person. Before this i would just ‘be’ attracted and dont think about it and thats when you fall in love but now how am u suppose to fall in love when everything about love, relationship and sexuality gives me anxiety. I just want the normal me back who didnt think about this twice, i used to be just happy and live my life excited for the future and i always had like this thought of how i want my relationship to be and how its gonna be non toxic and how its all gonna be so good like how everyones imagines it but now i csnt even imagine domething because boys make me feel nothing (rip my attravtion towards them i need it back) and woman are truly not what i want and trust me i dont want a future with a woman i can say that with my whole heart. Take it as a gay person not wanting to be with a opposite sex person, i dont want to be with a woman. Byt my hocd wont free me so that i can feel the genuing attraction to men again.
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OCD and Depression go hand in hand hun. You feel numb cause’ you are depressed. This is something treatment and medication can really help with. I’d set up an appointment with a psychiatrist and therapist to get some assistance. You’re strong enough to get past this, it’s going to be ok!
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Yeah i totally wish. I feel like that is the way out but sometimes i feel like my case isnt worse enough for s therapist even tho i know this isnt how life is suppose to be. Idk i also csnt tell my parents bevause i would be such a problem To them, they love me and they would help me but they have so much on their minds i cant and im also reslly sfraid to open up. So im just gonna wait tjll im 18 and go myself lol
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Can hocd create mental feelings or things that resemble inclinations Without a physical response?, but such as arousal and mental attraction, for example, I have so ocd and I'm afraid that I might like women.So, in the last period, when I look at photos of girls, especially beautiful ones, I feel something strange or attracted,sometimes their bodies.And I'm confused as to what that might mean, it's like sexual orientation, is this from me or OCD produced by it?'The feeling is like the feeling of discovering new inclinations and this breaks me, I just want to reconcile with myself in any sexual orientation or identity, but I just can't feel comfortable and reconcile with the fact that I may like women or it may happen in the future.And I have these feelings that telling me messing around the girls would be fun, and I feel something like desire, but I never come to terms with this.. I'm going to be 15 years old, I know, I'm not supposed to think like that, I don't have the right to determine who I am now because im young, and I shouldn't continue to dream of marrying a man..My mind keeps reminding me of the fact that I'm a teenager and the likelihood that everything will change is high, but right now, I'm not asking for anything but rest.I want to love myself and reconcile with her.
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hi guys i added to list. i’m freaking out i just need some help. signs of comphet (comphet is when lesbians who don’t know it and just follow norms and believe there straight) ive felt: “I never felt anything when kissing boys and totally thought that was normal… I talk to men, go on dates, but I think it’s to keep my life ‘interesting’ and have something to talk about with friends.” • lack of deep, natural emotional connection • • talking about my boyfriend to other people made me feel “cool”, “worthy”, “interesting” and felt like a way to prove myself • being able to clearly articulate all the reasons I liked a guy crush/my boyfriend (he’s smart, funny, kind, handsome, etc) whereas with a girl crush I can’t exactly put my finger on why I like them but I’m just naturally drawn to them • never missing my exes or feeling heartbroken about them (i would feel sad from being lonely and no longer having that daily routine of having someone to talk to, but didn’t necessarily miss that specific person) • i was always very hesitant about “becoming official” with a guy i would be seeing and would make him wait before deciding to date because i “didn’t know if i really liked him or not” only being aroused by their the man’s desire for me • Thinking I was cooler than other girls because I didn't spend any time thinking about how cute boys were or being "boy-crazy". I was under the impression for a while that I must just be less shallow than other people because I didn't really take looks into account when I had a crush on a boy, I only factored in their personality. chasing the ego boost more than emotional closeness agreed with friends or mom about someone being attractive even if you didn’t feel it—another big flag being bored, ditching serious commitment, chasing the drama again it also feels like i’m acting a lot of the time to make it more romantic cause i cringe When you fantasize about men, it is mostly just enacting a kind of narrative. More focused on movement than features- the men in your fantasies might be faceless or blank-featured or their bodies might symbolize some emotion. you might not even be in the in the fantasy, but instead another faceless woman might be. You might even imagine yourself as the man. The narrative follows the sexual script, but the details are more vague and abstract and might even shift and change throughout the fantasy. i dont care about like what guys looks like. like my sister saw a video of a guy working out and was like got damn omg gotta like that. if i saw that i would prob be like damn to try and prove something to myself but i don’t really understand what i should feel it feels like i relate to so much comphet after i read it on reddit and it doesn’t even make me want to cry and die anymore. it feels like i tolerate men or have done it for attention or because i thought it was going to happen at some point cause it was what was happening around me like sister and friends. i’m scared ill never find someone i want to marry that’s a man it feels like it’s all just comphet and i don’t want to actually be with a man the more my meds work and anxiety lessens the more the fear feels real because i can’t get myself anxious about it anymore. i can about other stuff but not this. i always told myself i don’t chase i attract. maybe thats cause i never wanted a big badly enough. maybe what im missing is a girl what if that ends up feeling more real Straight people don’t need to talk themselves into what’s hot. like during the hocd break i would try and like see what was “hot” and and be like yeah that’s hot. i also i refused to masturbate to women and not think about it because i didn’t want it to prove that i still liked it but i mean idk if that was left over hocd
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MY STORY i’ve grown up in a mostly supportive family and area and we are not homophobic. i grew up knowing what gay people were and i don’t care i grew up not to care. im from nj. my parents are friends with a lesbian couple and we see them once in while. i grew up watching people like joey graceffa whose gay. i also had some school friends that were gay like this kid kevin and this girl elizabeth. i also babysit a little gay boy who likes to dress up as a girl and i always tell him to embrace it and defend him. i wouldn’t care if a friend was gay or anything like i wouldn’t care if my sister was it would just make me rethink things about myself i think. from a young age i liked male attention and had labeled boys as crushes from my mom says. i dont think i liked girls when i was younger and my mom said it was only guys. but idk maybe there was. However i do remeber hairy men when i was younger would gross me out like with black hair and pale. my mom said every since i was a little girl i would tell her i liked boys. as i got older and in middle school i always wanted guys to want me and think i was funny and pretty and i would get awkward around them and nervous around them. but i remeber i didn’t have specific things i found hot or attractive and if someone said something was hot i would just agree and start telling myself it was hot even when i didn’t care i just wanted to be cool. then hocd hit at 13-15 during covid where i was so confused. the first time i had hocd i would like not avoid the thoughts i would do a lot of testing to figure it out for hours and hours in diffrent ways and would feel the same arousal and attraction im feeling now. but i remeber wanting to end up straight and try and rule out gay stuff. but it wasn’t avoidance i didnt have anything against gay people. when the thoughts were still there i still would only act on stuff with boys. when i first had it i remeber crying to my mom for like a month and i was like whatever she’s not helping im gonna figure this out by myself. that’s when i started testing myself for two years. over time it was just there. ofc it was distressing but i don’t remember much. slowly when i went to high school it faded because i loved going to parties and flirting with guys and talking about them and thinking what boy am i gonna kiss tonight it’s gonna be a crazy night. when covid ended and we went back to real like i started going to parties and kissing boys. i started dating one boy and we would talk all the time just not really hangout so we broke up because i wanted more male attention and was kinda bored of the relation shop. i started hu with this one boy and like didn’t really know if i was into it cause i kinda wanted to hoe around and we were kinda like locked in and i didn’t know if i wanted that. so he got the hint i wasn’t into it and stopped talking to me moved on to another girl and got popular in the span of like two weeks. after this i was obsessed with him and got all nervous to see him and i always just wanted to be like can we go back to the way we were. we then started to “hate” eachother and i was so sad all the time he didn’t want me anymore and moved on. we hooked up in and off for two years. then i started hooking up with this one kid cause i always thought he was really funny and chill. we hooked up for a little and then i started to get the ick. i then got with like two other boys at parties. so then we stopped talking and i started talking to the “hate eachother kid” again. we then started dating and he’s my current boyfriend of a little over a year. all these instances made me feel good and i loved the attention and drama. but i struggled with committing with people. i don’t know if this all for validation because i loved when men wanted me it gave me an ego boost and still does even if i didn’t really want them or couldn’t get it to last with a boy. i’m scared it was all for attention and confidence there attention gave me. i liked feeling like a baddie. i liked when the hot funny guys liked me now at 18 it’s back and for six months all i been doing is talking to my mom my sister and my dad about it constantly researching and checking and for those six months i was in a haze of just despair. i was also in erp but it was so bad i couldn’t sit with the distress so i didn’t make much progress and my pyscuatrust told me to stop for a while until we get my brain right with meds. after three weeks no erp and more meds of seretonin and rexulti i finally don’t feel distress or anxious but the feelings of attraction are still there. i thought there supposed to vanish. i’m from nj and from a supportive family and ig supportive environment and friends. i’m 18. and in high school okay so growing up my mo said i only liked guys and would talk about guy crushes and had two celebrity guy crushes. this was all the way up into middle school. then when middle school came around i started liking this guy cause he was funny and popular. then we started dating and everytime he would do something affectionate i would start crying and get so tense and freak out so i broke up with him because he made me so nervous . a year later i still liked him and i got back together with him and the same thing happened so i broke up with him. i think during middle school i liked guys. my mom said i did. i also would get really nervous when any of them would come around to hangout and i wouldn’t talk. but i would also just follow what my friends and sister said. if they said a guy was hot i would just agree. i dont know if i actually found them attractive. i still kinda do this to this day. then covid hit for two years. during those two years i was in my house house and got hocd. so i had hocd sexual intrusive thoughts only and had the groinal really bad. but i would still try and have crushes on guys and think i did. but my hocd also attached itself to one of my pretty friends who was a girl. it made me have a lot of sexual thoughts that i would masturbate to about her. it was about her waist and stuff and it made me loose myself. before hocd me and her were bestfriends and really close and im not sure if i had feelings for her. i mean i was always jealous cause all the guys always wanted her and thought she was pretty. then we got out of covid and i was now in high school. the hocd slowly faded my freshman year. in the begining of freshman year there was this tall brunette guy who i started talking too for months and started dating and i would get all nervous when he came around. i really liked him and enjoyed talking to him. then we broke up cause we never hung out. after that for the next two years i developed what i thought two be two genuine crushes. i would make out with cute guys at parties for the experience and to add cute guys to my kids list. basically hocd was gone but i did this one thing sometimes i did is i would always try to prove i was straight to my mom. like if we were watching tv i would say a guy was hot. i didn’t want her to think i was gay even though she wouldn’t care at all but i would do this because she was the only one i would talk to about my sexual intrusive thoughts and feelings. i was hooking up with my guy best friend but then started to looses interest but he was still obsessed. one day he caught on i wasn’t into it started hanging out with older people and going to there parties and started hooking up with this older girl. i got super jealous and heartbroken cause he didn’t care about me. i don’t know if this heartbreak and crying was because he got popular, he wasn’t giving me attention, we weren’t friends anymore or because i actually liked him. i always had a thing for him after this. i started going to the older people parties and i always wanted to see him there and make him jealous. one and half years later we started talking again and we started dating. once we started dating we started having sex. almost every time or most of the time i finish when he eats me out, we have actual sex or if we’re just humping. we say i love you and stuff. ths first six months we would do everything together like just little shopping trips or whatever. we were always hanging out. then it started to dial down and i started getting annoyed with him sometimes which my mom and sister said was normal. but i still said love you and we would hangout and have sex but idk. i would have thoughts like we aren’t going to last because he’s not smart enough, and sometimes my mom would say this too. but she would also say how much he loved me and how he was such a sweet guy and how he would do anything for me. but idk i just wouldn’t feel it. like i still showed pda and did like him. would a lesbian who didn’t know it yet likely date a guy for a year and a half at 18, have sex like once a week, have orgasmed during penetration, creamed, squirted finished by his hands and mouth then hocd hit again. this time much worse. it was even stronger it felt like with the feelings. the first three months i was in this haze and was crying everyday that i might be gay and how i really really really didn’t want to be. i still have hocd and im in therapy and on medication. i cant tell if my attraction to men is real. my mom says it is and she knows me and im not gay and ive shown genuine excitement about guys. my sister says the same thing. but it feel like ive convinced myself ive been doing it to fit in. the thoughts got bad and ive told my mom my sister my dad and ive told three friends. my mom and sister ive told the details too or the intrusive thoughts and false attraction. i’ve always found women attractive and i find it easier to find them attractive like physically but never felt this way can i conclude im not lesbian? or like is it likely my attraction to men hasn’t been genuine
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