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- 4y ago
You are not alone. I have that chest tightness feeling. You have to allow it to go through you and resist google searching or reading forums to see if your symptoms match. If it didn’t feel real, you wouldn’t have ocd about this. Accept it “feeling real” as as thought, acknowledge and move on to something else. Otherwise you’ll end up analyzing why you got that feeling and it spirals into more compulsions and a worse form of HOCD.
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- 4y ago
Thank you. It’s great to not feel alone.
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- 4y ago
if u don’t want a certain emotion or feeling to happen, u will most likely experience it which is why u feel like ur attracted to them. the whole point is to accept that maybe u are attracted to them, maybe not. you just have to learn to be okay with that. it’s hard and it’s painful but that’s just what erp is ://
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- 4y ago
When you start resisting compulsions, your brain will double down at first. It REALLY wants you to do compulsions, so it will send new intrusive thoughts/feelings/urges to get you to cave. Don’t. This is perfectly normal for your theme. And you should expect to keep dealing with it for awhile. Face it and don’t run away. Every time you use compulsions to avoid these things you only show your brain just how important/right/scary/real these thoughts are to you. And you take away an opportunity for yourself to see them for what they are: just thoughts you don’t need to do anything about.
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- 4y ago
Beautiful, thank you.
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- 4y ago
The physical sensations associated with different emotions overlap a TON. the less we read into our sensations, the better. Your heart jumped. That happens sometimes. There are loads of possible reasons-including anxiety
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- 4y ago
How do you do your ERP I also kind of get triggered but by the opposite “femine” looking guys
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- 4y ago
So helpful thanks. I'm trying! ❤
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- 25w ago
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- 19w ago
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- 17w ago
I did an erp and I was thinking over and over again “I want to be with girls I just don’t want others to find out” and then it felt like a moment of yeah that is what I want. It felt really real I can’t believe it’s not. I wasn’t anxious about it. It felt completely like me and even when I tried to deny it like it was a true realization and that I wanted it to be true. I can’t do this. What do I do!!! Erp suggestions?
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