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Of course. The worst is when you feel in your mind like you are actually enjoying the intrusive thoughts/checking. Just hang in there. We will get through this.
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Similar things have happened to me bro. It sucks. It feels like your life is slipping away, like you are losing your identity and should just give in sometimes. Hopefully we both get through this.
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Yes, and the testing.
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You are not alone.
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One of the most useful points of understanding that has helped me is that you do not need to carry out the compulsions or the testing. It actually makes things worse, as I am sure it did for you. Whenever you get an urge to do something or check, sit with the anxiety and recognize that part of the ERP is not checking and not needing an answer right away (as if the testing will actually provide any answers).
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My HOCD is getting to me as well man. ERP is a real big challenge for us. Can you help me out with my situation as well? It’s about a Celebrity. My HOCD is making me feel like I have a crush on a celebrity because I imagine him in different movies (not romantic ones) and whisper his name under my breath. My friends also asked if I would fuck the celebrity (in a joking way) and I said of course not but my HOCD is like “would you want to fuck him” or “you know you want it”. NO I FUCKING DONT. I JUST WANT TO BR STRAIGHT WITH A WIFE AND TWO KIDS, AND YET THIS HOCD KEEPS FUCKING WITH ME.
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Like the anal sensations?
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It becomes unbearable sometimes with the urges and compulsions. Like if I don’t do them time just stands still and they’ll just come back once I’m alone again
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I feel you man. Trust me. Understand that you have power over how you respond. You cannot control the thoughts, but your life will not collapse if you fail to check or act on the “urges”.
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Like I said, I am going through similar things and, while I am still in the thick of it all, you are not alone. There are other people going through similar things with HOCD (I hope).
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You’re right. Thank you man. It sucks I hate it so much but it feels better to know that someone else is going through the same thing
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Thank you man I appreciate you talking to me
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Anytime
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I’ve been masturbating to women 2-3 times in the last 6 years. And my HOCD is telling me that I’ve been covering up the fact I’m gay by masturbating to women constantly. But I know I’ve been attracted to women, and I’ve had multiple crushes on women
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Same man. Try not to worry about it too much. I know that is easier said than done. The checking will just make it worse. Stay away from PMO for a while and try to just live your life. By putting so much energy into this obsessive thought cycle, it is just going to make things feel more and more like reality. The anxiety might even go away and leave you with false attractions and the whole menagerie of uncomfortable sensations. The more you try to analyze, the worse it gets.
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@nGfloat My HOCD is making me feel like I’m enjoying the thoughts too, which fucking saddens me. Everytime I watch a video with a dude in it, my mind just goes “cute” or “hot” and it feels like I want it when I don’t. Kill me please.
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@SOOCD Hey bro, I know how it feels, trust me. Still going through it hard making me think I genuinely enjoy some of the stuff when, in retrospect, it distresses me to high heavens. I am going to try not to provide any reassurance, as that is not the way forward. This is not an existential threat. The thoughts cannot actually hurt you (only your response, and the compulsions can). Live life because you, as all humans on this planet, deserve to.
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what the hell? this entire day ive been trying to do ERP right? allowing the thoughts feelings, sensations be there with very little reaction, saying"oh that's a thought", "that's a feeling" don't care" etc. But it seems to be making it 100x times worse. Like its impossible to just"ignore" it, it feels so freaking real as if this was the truth, the doubts are real, the false attraction feelings and lip sensations are REAL and genuine attraction, feels ego-synotic, its impossible just to ignore or move on from it because I think I'm so hyperfocused on it all so it last the whole day. IDK right now it feels and seems as if I lost? like its not a what if but it feels factual like"I'm naturally gay, I'm gay" and it feels like normal and become ok with that. But I don't want that I don't want to be gay.
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Hi, last year I had a trigger with my little cousin that made me spiral. Then that thought lead to another and lead to another thought and another one and so on and I've been feeling stuck (with ups and downs) over a year now. I hit rock bottom in July/August and that lead me to going to the psychiatrist. I am taking meds now, but I still feel bad. It doesn't take as much time of my life anymore but it is constantly back there in my mind. It's the feeling that I'm ignoring and undoubtable truth that soonest or later will come out, or that rejecting, or that I'm resisting. That's why it's been impossible for me to do ERP, because I think it's going to make me want to touch myself and if I do I'll feel bad. And then it feels like I like the thoughts, not only physically (groinals) but mentally??? It's like a brain fog that I can't tag between pleasure or confusion. And that thought leads me to thinking about the alleged "non-offending" ps and if that could be me. And that thought leads me to think OH MY GOD I can't BELIEVE I am a girl in my twenties obsessing over this I can't believe this is my life.
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so its been three days now its it really bad, Im trying to just "tolerate and allow the feelings to be here for as long as it wants," not fixing it, not figuring it out, just allowing it to be a cloud raining on me while im doing my thing, but it doesnt work!! It gives me these intesne, loud, real feeelings that make me feel like i am gay and that I just need to accept it. Like its the hyperfocusing that I cant control that makes me focus on the feelings when im trying to do something else, allowing it to be there but still doing my own thing however Im still paying attention to the feeling, and the thoughts feel intense, and its like this ALLLL DAY, for three days straight. I dont know what to do anymore, because ERP doesnt seem to be working.
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