I just read a gay story on Reddit linked to hocd and he said he turned out gay and at the start he would do tests and stuff like that and want to be with girls, this has triggered me and now I think I’m gonna be like that cause, the thoughts are convincing me that I like them ( gay sex) even tho it made me feel sick and disgusted

Okay, well did they state they had other ocd obsessions, what did they define as “OCD” because a lot of misconceptions are out there, and did he want to like girls bc of society or bc he loved them. These are all important questions that are integral to seeing if this is even a valid story. Anyone can say anything online. Maybe he was gay and had ocd, but you need to remember possible vs probable. It’s possible this guy was gay with HOCD, but how probable is it that you are too

Who said that

@frghtfdfh You said the gay story was “linked to HOCD”

Okay. So reading what you’ve written, you know this is irrational and OCD is causing these thoughts. I’m a woman who is married and get turned on by breasts, I have HOCD for the same reason. Am I gay due to this evidence? We could go all day and run through our entire sexual history until we’re blue in the face, but writing it all out is only temporary relief. You also didn’t mention what this man called “HOCD” bc a lot of people who aren’t familiar are convinced HOCD is denial. These people aren’t mental health professionals. I so badly want to give you the reassurance that you’re not, but from a fellow sufferer, I know how little that will help you. Instead, what are you doing today to productively counteract ocd

@wellwellwell Idek, trust me I use to spend hours doing test yo see if I was gay and I would be happy eachtime they said I was fully straight

@frghtfdfh I bet, but that doesn’t stop your mind, right? My therapist told me something useful: he could tell me to my face I’m gay and I would still come in the next day questioning again. Same with if he told me I’m straight. The problem isn’t your orientation, it’s ocd. Have you had other ocd themes?

@wellwellwell Yeah I’ve had harm ocd

@frghtfdfh Okay, so can you try to think about these thoughts like you would harm ocd? It’s helpful for me to remove the sexuality aspect and just think about it as another type of ocd

@wellwellwell Yeah the thing is I had harm ocd after hocd, like the hocd thoughts stoped and I wanted them back instead of harm ocd, then me and my girlfriend broke up and hocd came back

@frghtfdfh Oh my gosh similar story, I had cheating ocd. I was convinced I would cheat on my husband with another man and that took over for days. When that calmed, HOCD was back

I think that’s just another aspect of ocd. We are so anxious that everything in our body is lit up, making us confuse anxiety for excitement. It’s weird, but not uncommon