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yep! even though its kinda hard, try not to take it personally.
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Thank you what is he difference, I feel anxiety and horror I no pleqsurebale
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@10lewis10 for hocd, we usually get filled up w anxiety and it tends to get really annoying sometimes because you know you’re not attracted, yet your mind is saying ‘yes you do.’ it’s like as if it was against your will. for the lgbt community, they don’t feel anxiety nor horror or anything that we would feel. they would feel pleasure and would enjoy it.
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@val ʚĭɞ Some gay people don't like being gay. Some gay people do feel anxiety and horror. For some gay people it has nothing to do with what other people think of them too. It's not that black and white.
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@hateocd123 i’m sorry, i didn’t mean to offend anyone. i was just saying it based on what my lgbt friends said to me when i was struggling w my hocd before getting this app. i’m sorry if i sounded ignorant.
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@hateocd123 So what do I trust
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@val ʚĭɞ No, I'm sorry for being rude. You didn't offend me, I'm just worried about giving him reassurance.
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@hateocd123 oh my god nono don’t apologize:( , i didn’t realize i was giving him reassurance:( i’ll try to be more not so reassurance giving (don’t know if there’s a verb for it)!!!
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@10lewis10 No one actually knows the answer. You need to sit with the discomfort. Please for your own sake. Exhausting all of your reassurance is the most painful way to get through this and in the end it will make you more confused. I speak from experience. Please, please, please trust me. I'm trying to save you from more heart ache. I'm certainly NOT telling you that you're gay. I am saying that OCD is telling you that you need reassurance that you DON'T need.
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@val ʚĭɞ I feel really bad. This is something I dealt with for over a year now. Lewis please reach out and get help for your OCD. By getting help it will hurt, but in the long run it will be a lot less painful. You will find an answer by not having answer with treatment if that makes any sense. Both of you! Nocd therapy will help and its affordable!
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@hateocd123 i’d really like to go into therapy but it’s not available here:( i
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@val ʚĭɞ If there's no therapy around you, doing exactly what you were talking about doing is perfect! Those were all things I was too afraid to do. You can get workbooks that will help too! I have the amazon kindle app and I buy them on there.
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Yh I get ya thank you, have you done cbt therapy or anything
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i’m just meditating and taking it slow:) i’m also doing a bit of exposure but it’s little by little. i’m also practicing some self-care just prioritizing myself:)
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I’m doing cbt and it all makes sense but I hate when I’m normal and I look at a celeb or anyone who is attractive my mind thinks I’m attracted to them and I can’t tell the difference between being attracted and seeing sane sex know there good locking but not sexually
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Yep, heard it described at OCD spotlighting. You’ll notice everything that your OCD attaches itself to. Same sex people, LGBTQ tv commercials, pride flags. After a while it gets kinda funny. I just say spotlight to myself and try to move on
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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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Like I can’t think straight. This is making me doubt everything I’ve thought about myself and even makes me feel like I like the thoughts when I know I don’t. Like I would be less anxious at a time while I still have the thoughts and my mind would go “oh so you like it you must be gay” or the other one where I’m not anxious and I think of my attraction for girls that I’ve had my whole life and my mind goes “see now you’re not into them you’re gay” like it’s so stupid but so effective. I clearly remember being into girls my whole life but my mind is making me believe that all these attractions and feelings for women were all fake or “a thing of the past”. But I can still get aroused by women but I have this weird anxiety going on which brings these sensations/feelings and it’s so weird. Today I’ve spent my whole day thinking about it like I’ve been doing for 5 months now. I know that this aint normal but my mind just won’t let me live in peace. I never cared about my sexuality cuz I simply liked women my whole life but now my sexuality is a fundamental philosophy. I hate this.
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Like I feel geroinals ALL DAY and it’s stuck… I think I’m bi. But this still drives me nuts.
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