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It is difficult to break the cycle at first. The key is start allowing those thoughts to occur without you questioning them or trying to make yourself feel better. When they happen, try to let them flow through and even say things like, I might be attracted to girls, but that’s okay. You will feel very anxious at first, but the longer you continue, your anxiety will start to subside and the thoughts will seem silly.
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Hey, I have HOCD as well and it’s my only intrusive thought. I think I have other intrusive thoughts? But HOCD is the most noticeable and scary and convinced me that it isn’t OCD Because it’s my only OCD thought. So I feel relieved knowing I’m not the only person dealing with one OCD theme!! But ERP is super helpful and don’t dig into your past, it makes things worse!
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Omg its my only theme too thought i was the only one ??♀️
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Hang in there ladies we can get thru this ??
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Glad to know I’m not alone!
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It may be better to ease into exposing yourself so that you don’t overdo it. Your therapist can help you structure an exposure hierarchy so you can start small and work your way up. Hang in there! If it wasn’t OCD you wouldn’t be feeling so unwell and anxious!
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Yes, it does! I honestly can’t look at my past crushes anymore with ocd saying it wasn’t real
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Definitely not alone girl ? We got this!
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wow this is absolutely identical to my HOCD. i had never had these thoughts before until one day i looked at my friend and thought that she was so pretty, because she is, and it went into a downward spiral from there. but therapy really helps. talking about it really helps. and there’s a lot of ups and downs, right now i’m kinda dealing with a down because it happens sometimes, but you have to just keep going. HOCD doesn’t have to be around forever, it can go away!!! i always feel like mine tricks me into thinking one thing and not the other, like it purposefully tries to get me to like certain things when i know i don’t. then i go into a cycle of in denial where it tells me i actually did like it i just won’t admit it. but i know that’s it’s just my ocd and not me, but learning to separate the two is hard
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this makes me feel so much better that so many people have commented on this and they deal w the same thing i do
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Yes guys it makes me feel amazing to know I’m not alone. I know we are all going to be ok even though it’s tough now??
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Exactly it makes me feel a lot better knowing other people go through this. Do you ever feel like your HOCD tricks you into remembering things differently? Or that you have feelings for someone? It’s so cruel!
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Yeah it’s a great feeling to know we aren’t alone
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If anyone wants, im in a group with other girls dealing with HOCD, ROCD, etc. on Instagram. Add me @nadselhag and I can add anyone to the group!
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can someone with this theme help me i’m so scared and i can’t stop having panic attacks is this OCD??? So i always have struggled most with sucicidal ocd and harm ocd. i never really had any other themes. but recently ive struggled with SOOCD. My whole life i have never EVER been into girls ever and i could never even think of ever being with a girl in my entire life. i’m having extreme amounts of anxiety and i have compulsions to make sure i look at a girl and don’t feel anything towards them or anything. My mind is literally going “what if your just in denial” or “what if you’ve just been hiding it all these years” When i know i haven’t. i have all of the symptoms of SOOCD and i still know that im not gay,but these thoughts are extremely distressing and have been the worse to deal with. I’m constantly panicking and doing compulsions to get these thoughts to leave and they won’t. i’m scared and these thoughts are making my mind scared. What if i’m going against my morals and i’m lying to myself like and i just went through a tough breakup too so that is shooting these thoughts and anxiety. Please help omg!!!
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I’ll cut a long story short… SOCD/ HOCD was one of the first themes I got when I was a teenager. The first one was health but I didn’t know that was OCD at the time. Anyway, I have had SOCD for 11 years. Sometimes it leaves me alone and it feels like I’m my own self again! Don’t get me wrong it lingers but I manage. But… IT IS BACK!!! My head is telling me that I am a lesbian and that I need to just admit it. I hate it. I have a boyfriend who I love unconditionally and this has just sprung out of a dream I had -.- I don’t want to be a lesbian! The groinal responses have always been the worst. It started when I was around 16, I woke up one morning and my brain just said ‘you’re a lesbian’, as you can imagine I freaked out, panic attack and cried. Then, my brain starts looking into my childhood… well it’s had a field day. When I was around 9 my friend showed me girls kissing on YouTube and then I suppose I got addicted to it. I then used to play on Habbo and walk up to girls and say ‘kisses’ etc. my brain is now saying that this is evidence that I’m gay. I DONT WANT TO BE A LESBIAN!!! I have no issues with gay people, I just don’t want to be gay myself. Sometimes, when the thoughts come in I don’t seem to get anxious but I get groinals and that freaks me out! I just want peace. I hate this. I get so many different themes. Now it’s this one and I just want to crawl under my duvet, sleep until they’re gone but then I end up dreaming about it!!!
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im having a unusually hard flare up for two months. ive never had it this bad before (ive had this on and off for many years - thank god not constantly.) lately, i keep having these images in my head and scenarios in my head of me "coming out" in the future and ending my relationship with my amazing fiance who i love dearly. he knows everything but i still feel like i am constantly lying to him, my family, and friends. i need to know that this is something the SO-OCD can do to you? the weird thing is, is that i have never been attracted to woman. i do admire their beauty and wish to LOOK like them or have a specific feature they have, but i dont have any urges to like be with them yet i am dealing with this really bad flare up. My brain keeps telling me that since i have never tried it, i would never know, and i am just getting really distressed from it. i just want to be happy again and it seems impossible. I am convinced i am only person that is using SO-OCD as an excuse. Any guidance or advice, or anything really, will help. i just feel alone and scared and sad all the time.
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