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- Clementine
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- 3y ago
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- Dothewalkoflife. Dothewalkofl...
- Date posted
- 3y ago
okay. deep breaths. try and calm down. your okay. if you don’t want to be gay then you feel distressed thinking about it. try and relax and (ik it’s easier said than done) but try not to overthink it. say this to yourself for low level acceptance. “if i’m gay, then i am gay. there’s nothing i can do to change that. but i just don’t feel like i am gay right now. so i’m going to continue living a straight person”. this way your acknowledging that you COULD be gay, buttttt you don’t feel like you are. but please try not to overthink about it too much. it’s going to be okay ✨
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- lolashewaslolashewas
- Date posted
- 3y ago
but what if you do feel like you’re gay?
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- Dothewalkoflife. Dothewalkofl...
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- 3y ago
@lolashewas it depends. if you’d feel happy giving it a go with the same gender. try it. if that triggers you then it means you don’t like it
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- lolashewaslolashewas
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- 3y ago
@animal35353 i don’t like it i would never
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- Dothewalkoflife. Dothewalkofl...
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- 3y ago
@lolashewas then don’t. you don’t have to. but notice how repulsed you were by the idea ?
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- lolashewaslolashewas
- Date posted
- 3y ago
@animal35353 i wasn’t repulsed i was just scared
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- Dothewalkoflife. Dothewalkofl...
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- 3y ago
@lolashewas you don’t have to think about it now but i’d recommend if u feel like you didn’t like it. try and relax
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- lolashewaslolashewas
- Date posted
- 3y ago
what post was that?
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- NoRuminationsNoRuminations
- Date posted
- 3y ago
It could be a back door spike? Try to educate yourself more on that. The more I have been doing ERP, there are many things that don’t trigger me like they used to. That doesn’t mean I’m gay. Sometimes you not being bothered could also be you’re finally accepting your thoughts. NOT ACCEPTING THEY ARE TRUE. But just accepting the presence of them and it doesn’t bother you as much. In general try to educate yourself more on OCD, it helps you understand what you’re feeling or sometimes not feeling.
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- idont241
- Date posted
- 5y ago
So, one second I know I don’t want the thoughts, I get upset by them and they disgust me. Then I overthink it and I question everything. “Did I like that or not? Do I want that or not?” And it makes it feel so real because everyone here knows they are disgusted by the thoughts. Then I question, “why are you scared huh? Why do you not want to be gay?” And it makes the thoughts feel 10x more real, as if I actually wanted to be. I am just so tired of this. I feel that because I can’t relate to other people with hocd with this I actually don’t have it. But then I question again. I really don’t know what I want to be, and who I am.
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- Iann
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Don’t know if this is a part of ocd recovery or what but my hocd thoughts don’t give me anxiety anymore. Sometimes it feels like this tapped into my feelings. I don’t know how to explain it. Like when I get the thoughts now my mind is like “you’ve always been like that” but I feel no anxiety. I’m also regaining some attraction for the opposite sex and that feels great but at the same time my mind says I’m lying to myself and I get this weird feeling in my chest. Idk what this is.
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- moxley
- Date posted
- 5y ago
how can i be sure that i have hocd for like 3 weeks and now just feel like i’m constantly lying to myself and i’m actually gay ? it feels so real and i don’t have that much anxiety right now, and that’s worrying me
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