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- McSteezzyy
- Date posted
- 6y ago
- Username
- 08230823
- Date posted
- 6y ago
To stop analyzing, you have to stop yourself whenever you notice you are doing it. The analyzing is probably a compulsion so when you stop doing it, your anxiety may spike which could cause your OCD to create more worries and thoughts, but stick with it! When you are worried about stuff from the past within your OCD theme, it’s almost always OCD tricking you. Just tell yourself, I don’t know and I don’t care because here i am right now in this moment and nothing is happening except some random OCD thoughts. If it feels really urgent and hard to stop, try saying I’ll analyze this thought later at like 7 pm for one hour. When 7 comes around and you start analyzing, you may not even fill the whole hour and it will show you that you can wait, this is not urgent, and that it ultimately doesn’t truly matter.
- Username
- 08230823
- Date posted
- 6y ago
Yes! It basically retrains your brain to react to the thoughts differently, showing it that there is no real fear so there’s no reason to keep thinking up the thoughts. It will be hard at first, so you could try waiting for as long as you feel you can and then bumping up the time you wait after each trigger. You’ll see your anxiety really does go down on its own! It’s ERP and I read once that ERP is a simple concept, but hard to do. It definitely gets easier though.
- Username
- McSteezzyyMcSteezzyy
- Date posted
- 6y ago
PS, I know it’s ridiculous only when I get moments of clarity
- Username
- McSteezzyyMcSteezzyy
- Date posted
- 6y ago
It sounds hard but definitely worth while. Is it normal for OCD to tell you that you don’t even have OCD? Like sometimes I’ll get the thought “it’s all a lie” and that’ll make me more anxious
- Username
- McSteezzyyMcSteezzyy
- Date posted
- 6y ago
So just try to sit with the anxiety without carrying out the compulsions basically?
- Username
- maying maying
- Date posted
- 6y ago
Yes I get that all the time. I’ve been told it’s ocd by a therapist yet I doubt whether it is.
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- Gay
- Date posted
- 6y ago
So, I’m gay, but I have obsessive thoughts about being straight. The idea of being with a man is not something that I find appealing, but a mix of OCD and compulsory heterosexuality causes a lot of anxiety for me. Does anyone else have similar issues? If so, do you have any advice on how to cope?
- Username
- Laurie
- Date posted
- 6y ago
HOCDers: do any of you ever go through moments that feel like realisation or discovery of being gay (I hate this so much because I know I’m not) Also does your ocd ever make you feel funny about being straight when you know you are? Sometimes if I say to myself ‘I’m straight’ I get a sensation that isn’t quite anxiety, I don’t know if it’s a longing/missing just knowing?
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- anotherocd123
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Okay so I have been struggling with HOCD for so fucking long. I never felt like I had crushes on boys growing up but I wasn’t attracted to girls either (this was through 5th grade). Until 6th grade hit. I remember it like it was yesterday. I had the thought walking up the stairs and it was “You’re lesbian.” And ever since that thought was there and I fought it I have been dealing with all types of OCD ever since (been going on for 7 years). And only this year I found it was OCD. But it’s hard because I don’t know if I’m actually gay or I convinced myself I’m gay because I gave up and gave in. Now whenever I see I pretty girl I feel tingling. And I wanted to prove to myself that I wasn’t a lesbian so I look up pretty pictures of girls with their boobs out and I loved it. And I wanna make out with a girl so intensely. But then at the same I don’t wanna be in a relationship with a girl and I wanna marry a guy and I just desperately wanted to be like by a guy. But I get so horny whenever girls are in bikinis and stuff. But I have OCD and I’m so confused.
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