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Have I shared this with you already? Acceptance of thoughts and feelings means accepting their presence and does not mean accepting them as truths. - Alegra Kastens, @obsessivelyeverafter on Instagram
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But I'm scared that I know deep down parts of them are true. I'm not really sure though because my OCD makes me feel like I have to hold myself accountable by saying everything is true or I'm in denial which is scarier than the idea of being gay. OCD has even taken treatment hostage by saying if you don't believe the thoughts you are not accepting and you will never get better. Wording is so important to me, when I see other people say "it feels like I'm aroused by this" I feel like I have to say "I AM aroused by this" otherwise I am in denial. I want the pain to stop.
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@hateocd123 Did you see my most recent post just now on deception and OCD? There seems to be a lot of deception going on here.
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@Ben84 What if I'm lying I dont know
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@Ben84 I'm lying I feel like in lying
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@hateocd123 I can see you're scared and in distress right now. The best way to fight OCD is by NOT fighting. Can you take some deep breaths for me?
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@Ben84 Yes
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@Ben84 But if I not focused on it then I'm not accepting and I'm in denial
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@hateocd123 This is a deception. "Maybe you're gay, maybe you're not" You don't need to make a judgement on your thoughts. That's a trick it's trying to play.
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@Ben84 I just found out my boyfriends mom came home early and has heard my giant panic attack and screaming and crying about how I'm gay to my mom on th phone. Oh my god. What do I do. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. She's never going to believe me. She wont understand. She's going to think I'm actually gay. What do I do.
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@hateocd123 First take those deep breaths again. Second, let's stay in the present. Try not to project into the future.
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@Ben84 Ok I feel pretty calm. I'm scared to leave the room I dont want to see her.
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@hateocd123 Progress ☺. Do you have much of a choice on whether to see her now?
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you like the feeling of being aroused? so what !!! it doesn’t matter. actions are what defines a person, not their thoughts. i can PROMISE you that.
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is it that you like getting aroused by the thoughts? tmi i know! just trying to clarify.
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@holley I'm scared I like the feeling. It's not even really arousal (I feel like I'm lying by saying that). It's like pre-arousal if that makes sense. It feels like a pressure (sorry for the excess information) and I'm afraid that I like it, and I want to pursue it instead of staying with my boyfriend. I constantly feel like I have to prove to other people that I have OCD. I feel like I have to confess everything and I'm scared that by saying that I'm just trying to get you to think that I have ocd.
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@hateocd123 i feel the same, i don’t really get aroused hardly anymore which is a first considering i used to be addicted to lesbian porn. i always try to get people to understand it and when they don’t and say something that triggers me i get anxious.
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@holley would you like my email or snap or something so we could talk?? i want to help.
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@holley I'm sorry, but I prefer to stay in the app. I'm fine to talk any time on here though.
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@hateocd123 sure!
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Are there reasons why you feel like death would be better than not being straight?
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I don't know why. It makes me feel uncomfortable. It just doesn't sit right inside of me.
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@hateocd123 I wish I had an answer
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@hateocd123 Ok, I hear that it makes you feel uncomfortable and anxious, but I'm not seeing how that lines up with it being a fate worse than death. Have you considered the idea that the more you treat it like a big threat, the worse this obsession becomes? A big threat makes us feel we need to fight it with lots of compulsions, and that continues the cycle. A good way to become better at resisting doing all of your mental compulsions is to reduce our estimation of the threat we are responding to, so it can feel a bit safer to stop fighting it off. Maybe being gay wouldn't be the end of your life, maybe it would pretty much be fine. Maybe your sexuality is only a really small proportion of your whole life. When I feel overwhelmed by an OCD threat, it helps me to "grid" my life up, into each different important thing, so even if one of the parts goes wrong or is threatened, the other parts are still there. For example: family, friends, partner, physical health, mental health, job/career, hobbies, interests, knowledge, values, hopes and dreams, etc. There is a lot of substance to your life which is not relevant to sexuality. If you think of your life as being so small, and ignore all the other parts, then your OCD worry feels like a ridiculously huge threat.
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@Scoggy I agree with everything you said and I'm starting to calm down slightly. It's hard to maintain being rational because I feel like when I'm freaking out is the only time I'm every facing the OCD monster. It makes life so stressful.
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I dont think I would feel that way if I wasnt anxious, but I dont think is would be for me even then, but I probably wouldn't want to die. I just want to die because OCD is shattering my brain.
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IM SCARED THAT IM LYING. I DONT KNOW
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@hateocd123 OCD tends to come with a feeling that you're lying or fooling people when you know by the facts that you're not. We have all been there. But unfortunately the more you try to argue with it or even agree with it, the worse it gets. You just have to really try to tolerate not knowing for sure, as much as possible, and finding other ways to remind yourself that you're not a terrible person.
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It is okay if you like girls, that is totally fine and your boyfriend’s mom will understand. It is possible that you are bi, if you are or if you aren’t, it is okay. Just focus on what you know without letting any what ifs or anything like that pop in.
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I am very depressed right now. I really feel like maybe I’ve always been a lesbian and never knew. I never questioned my sexuality when I was young, never wanted to explore, I just was straight and didn’t think anything about it, that’s just what it was. I had my first soocd spiral in late high school but didn’t have a name for it, just that I was having intrusive thoughts and it was killing me that maybe I was gay. I can’t exactly remember how I got out of that but I continued to have crushes, talking stages, and dated. It went away and that was that I guess. Looking back now I definitely was still avoiding content and certain people, and still had intrusive thoughts but didn’t think I was gay. I guess they were less sticky. Something about me is that I’ve never had a boyfriend and I’m a virgin. I’m very shy and romanticize things like I love the relationships and scenarios I read about or that I see in movies or the thirst traps online haha. So I want that irl but am disappointed when that doesn’t happen. I have a very interactive daydream (started when I was 13 and still continued that fantasy world now too) with a boyfriend, friends, and a prettier version of me. I enjoyed making up scenarios about sex or romance in those daydreams and fantasies, but when it came to real life, I would get shy or scared when things were starting to get serious with men. I thought maybe this was an avoidant attachment style but now I’m not sure. I never considered female fantasies and I still don’t want to right now. I want to test and see which one I like better, but I’m afraid I’ll find that I’m a lesbian and I really don’t want that. Ive always imagined myself with a man but now I’m worried about comphet. I’m really depressed and I can’t tell because yes, I find some women attractive whether it’s their makeup, face, body, aesthetic, but I never thought that meant I was attracted to them in a sexual or romantic way until this spiral. Now I’m afraid of masc lesbians and pretty women because it triggers me. But I’m also afraid because I feel like I can look at attractive men, but I don’t feel the same way anymore. I can’t even daydream about them bc then my brain inserts a woman. I’m really scared that I’ve lost myself, because I truly feel like I have, but I don’t want to explore with women, I just want to like men, I’ve always liked that idea. But so many lesbians talk about liking celebrities, fantasy men, or just attractive men. Sorry for the rant but I’m struggling a lot right now. I feel like all my memories, even the ones that directly contradict being a lesbian, can be explained away by comphet, internal homophobia, denial, suppression, etc. When I do try and accept uncertainty, sometimes it feels ok, but then something will trigger me and I’m back at square one. I’m afraid if I take my meds I’ll discover something about myself that I don’t want to because I’ve always been depressed and avoidant of life because it never lives up to my expectations. My sexuality is on my mind 24/7! I can’t take it!
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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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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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