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Okay so a few things BUT WELL DONE ON ERP: 1) don’t do it in a rush. ERP isn’t a sprint, it’s a marathon. If you do it quickly, it will fail 2) the ‘I’ll try that on a chick’ is a compulsion. Don’t compare. Just stare and let thoughts come in. 3) Arousal happens to any sexual stimulus gay or straight and has NO bearing on one’s sexual orientation.
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Nicky310- thanks for the help but now I’m curious. Does that mean I have to refrain from jacking off because all my life I jacked off to women or porn that’s just how I get off but since I have HOCD that’s a compulsion now right? Because I’ve already stopped looking at porn because it’s a compulsion but I guess I should’ve asked my psychologist if I should stop jacking off thinking about sex with women even though that’s what I’ve always done in my life but it’s seems you know a lot about this stuff too so I just thought I ask you thanks.
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I have a feeling that your thought of trying on a woman, is a form of distraction. It may not have been intentional but distraction can become avoidance.
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I know but I’ll try that on a chick was a thought that popped in seeing that it’s not like I was trying to think that but when I see that stuff I just start visualizing me with a chick not because I’m trying to suppress my thoughts but it just comes out of no where to where I start visualizing a chick like I can’t help it that’s just what’s started to happen though as I’m on day 4 of looking at pictures for erp and my psychologist said at first to just look at pictures of men but I told her that I was looking at naked dudes for my erp and she told me than to keep doing that until we meet again. My psychologist wants me to get my anxiety up again since I kind of messed myself up doing the self help on my own without any help so that’s where I’m at.
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- 6y
Of course no problems ! You’re doing sooo well! Yeah I think refraining from it is best because it can be a reassurance, but check with your therapist!
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- 23w
what the hell? this entire day ive been trying to do ERP right? allowing the thoughts feelings, sensations be there with very little reaction, saying"oh that's a thought", "that's a feeling" don't care" etc. But it seems to be making it 100x times worse. Like its impossible to just"ignore" it, it feels so freaking real as if this was the truth, the doubts are real, the false attraction feelings and lip sensations are REAL and genuine attraction, feels ego-synotic, its impossible just to ignore or move on from it because I think I'm so hyperfocused on it all so it last the whole day. IDK right now it feels and seems as if I lost? like its not a what if but it feels factual like"I'm naturally gay, I'm gay" and it feels like normal and become ok with that. But I don't want that I don't want to be gay.
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- 23w
straight girl suffering from hocd, okay so when i was younger i looked at like a girl corn star insta for like 2 weeks and like did get aroused by it, didn’t think much of it still fancied boys, girls were like ew no to me, but its triggering my hocd so badly, like is it normal that i could look at a sexy pic of a girl n get aroused by it, but like a shirtless pic of a boy i wouldn’t, however i have insane attraction to men irl, i love my boyfriend, i love the idea of being with a man and hate the idea of being with a woman, this really freaking me out!
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I’ve completely lost myself. I can’t focus on my studies, I can’t go to the gym. Dang it I can’t even be around my male friends normally anymore. I got no idea why or how this happened but the only thing I know for sure is that I never questioned my sexuality neither doubted it. I never cared in general. I just liked girls. I keep testing and keep testing and keep testing my arousal but no matter how many times I see but I don’t feel the same way for guys that I do with girls my mind will always try to make me believe that I am gay. It’s like it’s forcing me into an identity I never asked for. But at the end of the day like my psychologist told me. Sexuality doesn’t change. So since I never felt anything for guys in my life it’s ocd. I’ve been up and down for 5 months now and while the last week I was feeling way better. Monday now and I’m back to zero. I just want to go back when everything was normal. I can’t keep living with this.
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