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pureolifepureolife
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Those are a lot of âwhat ifâ doubts â a classic way ocd keeps us endlessly bound up in the obsessive compulsive loop. Imaging the same sex without anxiety does not make you gay. Having a groinal does not make you gay. Actively wanting to be in a romantic/sexual relationship with the same sex and that experience making you happy and fulfilled is a much better standard, but even in that definition Iâm not capturing every gay personâs experience entirely accurately because human sexuality is nuanced and diverse. Your âevidenceâ is flawed in a very typical way a lot of ocd sufferers struggle with. These little tests you run your body through to check for your sexuality are never going to give you the answer you want. The act of doing these tests is exactly what makes your body perform differently than it otherwise would. Stop testing! You are definitely having lots of upsetting feelings and Iâm so sorry ocd is making this so difficult for you. But feelings are not facts. And your actual facts are very lacking. Are you working with an ocd specialist or using any kind of ocd workbook right now to start challenging these thought distortions and learn to sit with uncertainty?
pacient 0pacient 0
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All I have is this app and its community , this is the most difficult thing I ever faced till now
pureolifepureolife
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@pacient 0 If you can get access to an ocd specialist through this app Iâd highly recommend it, otherwise you should be able to get a workbook. Here are two Iâve heard good things about: - https://www.amazon.com/Mindfulness-Workbook-OCD-Overcoming-Compulsions/dp/1608828786 - https://www.amazon.com/Overcoming-Unwanted-Intrusive-Thoughts-Frightening/dp/1626254346 OCD is very scary and it can be incredibly difficult to find the right resources and treatment at first, but when you do, there are actually very effective therapies available, like erp, that work for the majority of patients. Hereâs a good article on erp too: https://iocdf.org/expert-opinions/expert-opinion-self-directed-erp/
Carl CornettCarl Cornett
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What if your feelings did not provide accurate information about your internal experience or the external world?
pacient 0pacient 0
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What do you mean ?
Carl CornettCarl Cornett
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@pacient 0 Imagine that you walk into an old tool shed, and youâre looking for a rake. Suddenly, from out of the corner of your eye you see a snake coiled up in the corner. You jump back and grab the rake quickly, hoping to use it to defend yourself or prevent the snake from biting you. Slowly you move towards the snake with the rake held in front of you. But as you get closer your vision becomes clearer, and you discover it wasnât a snake at all, just an old rope youâd forgotten about. Now, for several moments there, you FELT like a snake was there. You had the rush of anxiety and fear that it could hurt you. In fact, you were so convinced that it was truly a snake you armed yourself in defense. Yet a real examination of the situation revealed how mistaken you were. I use that story to illustrate how feelings are different from facts. And just because we feel something doesnât make it true.
pacient 0pacient 0
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@NOCD Advocate - Carl Cornett Wounderful logic , but Im trying my best and now saying its ocd feels so much as a lie , and plus Idk how I would feel if I would recover , my attraction to womens has come back for good but whenever I think about an attractive girl my mind sends me an image with me standing with a same sex character
Carl CornettCarl Cornett
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@pacient 0 Those experiences donât reflect anything other than, well, being experiences. Again, feeling real does not equate to being real.
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