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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.
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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.
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PS, I know it’s ridiculous only when I get moments of clarity
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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
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So just try to sit with the anxiety without carrying out the compulsions basically?
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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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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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Think logically. Literally. Take me as an example. I have hocd and my obsession is “what if I’m gay”. I’ve liked girls my whole life, I can still get aroused by them and I can’t get the same instinctive reaction from a guy. So I can’t be gay. Sometimes ocd will go to something else once you prove it wrong. Maybe like. “What if I’m bi” again I can only get aroused by girls. Sometimes when I’m not thinking about it I can even get aroused when sitting next to a girl or when I’m sitting next to one or even when I’m touching one in a non sexual way. Something that never happens or has happened with a guy in my life. Don’t start panicking. Just “realise” who you are and who you’ve been.
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- 15w
Like I can’t think straight. This is making me doubt everything I’ve thought about myself and even makes me feel like I like the thoughts when I know I don’t. Like I would be less anxious at a time while I still have the thoughts and my mind would go “oh so you like it you must be gay” or the other one where I’m not anxious and I think of my attraction for girls that I’ve had my whole life and my mind goes “see now you’re not into them you’re gay” like it’s so stupid but so effective. I clearly remember being into girls my whole life but my mind is making me believe that all these attractions and feelings for women were all fake or “a thing of the past”. But I can still get aroused by women but I have this weird anxiety going on which brings these sensations/feelings and it’s so weird. Today I’ve spent my whole day thinking about it like I’ve been doing for 5 months now. I know that this aint normal but my mind just won’t let me live in peace. I never cared about my sexuality cuz I simply liked women my whole life but now my sexuality is a fundamental philosophy. I hate this.
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