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- 4y ago
- Date posted
- 4y ago
yes this happens to me A LOT i hate it. but that’s exactly what ocd does. it makes u doubt ur morals and values. u just have to stop asking ur self that question and let it be there. “maybe i want this, maybe i don’t. i don’t need to know right now” and i promise your brain will stop sending u the thought obsessively cause it’ll see that you don’t think it’s important anymore. i’ve gotten rid of so many false memory themes with this method. it rlly works
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- 4y ago
yeah it’s so hard I really need to apply that method more! it’s tricky to remember it when new random stuff comes up. this is kinda tmi as well but relating to sexual fantasy/taboo stuff as well it’s a really tangled line bcos I think every human being has crazy fantasy stuff that they know realistically they’d never do, but for someone with ocd it attacks all those things that I think are just human and part of our weird brains
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- 4y ago
@Soph yes exactly! another user on here named scoggy gave me rlly good advice where they said that making as many grey areas as possible with taboo stuff makes it easier to accept uncertainty about it. and accepting that people do have weird kinks or fantasies that they would never act on makes it easier to accept that maybe that applies to u maybe it doesn’t. esp if ur dealing with real event /false memory
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- 4y ago
Hi, I struggle with this, too. But in addition, I also struggle with getting the opposite response of what I actually want it to be. So, for example, I might get an answer such as 'yes, I do want it', and the answer would feel absolutely true and convincing. The most frightening thing, however, is that the answer also comes with strong sensations, including groinal responses, which are really hard to ignore.
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- 4y ago
I would like to apologise if my post has caused you any offense/harm or if it was intrusive.
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Through this journey I have come to understand that people who say things like they're sure about X, Y, Z and they "really don't like" such things, are actually speaking from a place of emotion. Half those people might actually end up doing those very things at some point in their lives too. So the moral of that, for me, is that we, saying we're uncertain and who knows, maybe I'm that person, are actually more honest you know? In truth everyone is just saying whatever, they don't "know" either. Nobody knows.
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- 23w ago
Ok so I’m a 17 year old female, and I’ve always thought I was straight. But I just really want to know how you would know the difference between so-ocd and actually questioning your sexuality. I have nothing against the LGBTQ community (in fact I am very much a token straight friend, lol) but I saw a video about comp-het recently and it sort of felt like what I was experiencing. I don’t want to be gay, I want to be with men, I want to like men, I’ve always liked men, but now I’m questioning whether or not that’s real? Because people can be gay but not want to be right? I’m single and I always have been. I think women are gorgeous, but when I try to imagine actually having any sort of romantic or sexual relationship with a woman it feels wrong, at least most of the time it does? Sometimes I’m less sure, and I’ve never been particularly boy crazy. I’ve liked maybe 2 or 3 people in my life, (not to say I’ve never found other guys attractive, but it doesn’t seem to be as often as most people) I have no particular reason to be afraid of being gay, very supportive family, safe area ect, but I don’t want to be, does that mean this is ocd, I don’t know what’s going on every time I say I’m straight I feel like I’m lying, but that might just be because I think about it so much. The idea of being with a woman doesn’t feel like something I would want, but is that just because I don’t want to want it? People online say things with so much sureness, if you feel like this it means this. Ect.
- Date posted
- 20w ago
I've gotten diagnosed with OCD and I'm in therapy. But I'm worried that I don't have OCD/that I got misdiagnosed. And recently I'm worried that I've just gotten myself into a habit of thinking of dirty minded or just plain old terrible things after I see/hear certain things because I feel like I need to prove I have OCD or else I'm faking(sometimes this goes away). Or that I'm just mimicking symptoms of ocd to cope with real problems I may have and that im just really deep into denial. I don't know...I'm just so tired. I mean, what if I really am what I think I am and this is my brains only way of coping? I don't even really feel anything towards most of the thoughts anymore either I just know they go against my values and I don't want them. I don't know if that's because I'm so mentally exhausted, I just don't care, or that the thoughts are true and I'm comfortable with them.
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- 14w ago
That’s kinda my question. All my thoughts feel so realistic and so now I doubt if they are ocd and if I just can’t make my mind up about something and I’m using ocd as an excuse or something idc I feel like this post is word vomit.
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