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Think about using acceptance commitment therapy when the thoughts happen. Act often helps with the RP in ERP
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i’m too scared to try the acceptance technique. i keep thinking “what if i do accept it and then i am gay”
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I am trying, it helps me sometimes, but then the hocd came back hardwr
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harder*
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you just have to think that is it irrational. over and over. and then once you do it you realize that it’s NOT the end of the world whatsoever. i actually used to have the same exact thoughts about being gay, the thought of it was terrifying, petrifying to me. but once I was able to just say it to myself and accept it I soon realized that I wasn’t even gay, I was just too scared to even think about that possibly. and i’m still figuring it out tbh!! I might be bi? who knows? but it’s 2018, and there’s nothing wrong with that. trust me. find the people in your life that don’t care whether you are or not. and treat u no differently with or without it. you got one right here!:) Just let that weight off your shoulders, trust me, it’s so much nicer. Your OCD is just simply making it so much more complicated than it has to be, that is it’s job, after all ?
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Yes!! Even if it was other times, there isnt anything wrong kkkk but this hocd just kills me!! I am gonna try your tips!! thank you
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The common themes are worrying about harming others, harming yourself, worried about being gay, weird religious thoughts, scared you’re a pedophile....I’ve heard of people having disturbing thoughts about have sex with Jesus (which bothered them because they’re religious).... I had thoughts that omg what if I’m gay and I would be scared to see an attractive woman....one time I hid all the knives in my house...if you’re having these thoughts than tell yourself it’s my OCD. For me my OCD thoughts seem so real and they’re so magnified....when I was little one time I kept saying “my mom is a bitch” in my head and it bothered me so much I confessed to her....nowadays I just obsess about the past... I have no idea why my brain made the switch in themes. But I don’t know...these days I tell myself if I have a bad thought and it’s really bothering me and I feel like it’s the end of the world than it’s probably just my OCD. Unless I find out I’m dying, someone I love is dying, or it’s the end of the world for real then I know most of my troubles are just ocd. This doesn’t always work right away because I get easily lost in thought but eventually a light bulb goes off and I think yep it’s my OCD. I’ve had this illness most of my life so I speak from a lot of experience ?
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And I’ve said this many times with people who have ocd, if you are having disturbing thoughts are you find them really disturbing and it bothers you than that’s a good sign. Because psychopaths “enjoy” they’re disturbing thoughts...because they have no conscience.
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Hi,im a fourteen years old girl. I live in a homophobic country,and i dont have any experience. I grew up and became homophobic just like my family and my religion.but in 13 year old.i was questioning why lgptq is illegal?while they are just being them and can’t select what they are? So..i became an agnostic or atheist by secret.oh,by addition,before i became atheist i was making sure i don’t like women,like looking at women pics and imagine some romantic or sexual senarios just to find out,(and i wasnt feel anything and didnt like them),and i was happy and comfort for being straight (i was liking fictional men and some actors,within experience except an online male friend i liked but we didn’t date).but after being atheist,its like fire,i start developing HOCD,im not officially have that because I can’t have a therapist,but i have the Symptoms 100%. I didnt know whats hocd ,i find out whats it before a month.when i was struggling with it like 7 months,so,i think it started when i was in very close friendship with a girl in school,i was confused.if i liked her or not,i was imagining,questioning,making scenarios,but i couldnt have an answer,but then i was comfort to keep it just friendship.when the questions about her go,i can see her normally as a friend and i dont think of her or text her every day and it sometimes reaches months in summer holidays and its normally to me,no romantic acts about her,but then i had a new friend to the group and i had the same thoughts and questions to her.and now my brain questioning if i like them both😢.ok.this gone.this is before year,before being atheist.after being.i was questioning “do i like women?” Or when i see a fictional woman,i start to look at her and questioning myself and try to catch any feeling,i swear i would accept myself to be gay or bisexual,but i just can’t feel or accept that..i feel like burn.i cried and cried.it somedays turns so hard that I can’t even study or live normally.i also started to lose my attraction to men.i feel like its gone,I can’t now imagine being a man without getting uncomfortable,i miss the days when i was enjoying imagining kissing and sexing with a man.but,hocd,always reminds me i have no experience,and its all imaginary,so I don’t have a real clue from beginning that im straight.and i also read an girl experience with hocd and she became a lesbian at the end,i get so scary.it feels so real.i just wanna cry forever.im afraid that i will like a girl in the future,it chock me and burns.i hate this feeling.to thr god i dont know or believe in,please,if i like women,just let me feel it normally without this fear and hurting.i dont want to be gay.i dont want to like women.i dont want to be bisexual or lesbian.but if being any of those but comfort without this feeling that makes me wanna suicide.i would accept,please.just please,i even can’t get a therapist,even online,i just want help.please.i dont want to be like those girls that find out they liked women all the time,im scared,i miss my old feelings and trusting.i hate this.i just want to die if its mean hocd to go.i feel like its so real and i will love a girl no way in hell future.i even feel its not wrong to like women,like its much better and more soft that men,but i just can’t.I can’t.i dont know,i did everything.i gave myself permission to find out or explore my attraction to the both genders but it hurts me more.i dont want to get hurts again anymore.just remembering i have no experience or clue i like men even if in past felt like i would like and date a man and liven with him,i keep reminding its all was Based on imagination…even if i was wishing to love a man,hocd ruined this peaceful feeling,i was really find peaceful of loving a man.but now,i don’t feel like before,and this scares me,i don’t know what to do.I can’t have a therapist,and dont even know how to get better,,,
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- 10w
I feel like I'm lying to myself, like I just don't accept that I'm gay, I don't want to be gay, I don't want to feel any kind of attraction anymore, I want to go to a psychologist to find out if I really have hocd or if it's just an excuse, because it feels like I really am gay, but nothing was authentic, it all started with thoughts that made me panic extremely hard and I felt like crying and I had delusions, I don't understand why this is happening to me, I didn't like any boys before the thoughts appeared, but exactly one day after they appeared, all the boys were attractive, of all ages, I want to recover :( I'm only 17 years old, for about 2 months I've been having thoughts, I don't know what to do, I can't go to a psychologist, I need help :(
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Can I get some tips on how to not seek reassurance I have HOCD and had it for three years now unfortunatly. I’ll have times where it’s not as bad then I’ll get a spike again and I rlly need to put an end to this but I can’t seem to stop seeking reassurance I’ll go thru phases where I’ll stop seeking for a while but then I’ll always come back. Tips would be appreciated
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