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I feel the exact same way. You’re not alone! You’ve got this ☺️
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thank you!! sometimes i just need a boost, not reassurance but just a boost to keep going!!! :()
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* :))
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Damn this is so relatable!! Especially the “stop forcing yourself” thing I feel that. Like many others have said, those who come to accept their sexuality generally feel better about it. Of course this is not always the case if they’re in an environment where it is unsafe to be openly gay (I think that can create lots of distress) but that’s different than knowing you’re in a community that would support and accept you and you still have debilitating fear around the possibility.
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that's what i mean,, all of my friends and family are super supportive, some don't understand all the recent "changes" going on with the "youth" but they're respectful and mind their business... i also feel bad because i have a lot of LGBTQ friends and i defend them so much, i also defend other minorities (i'm mixed) i'm just a really sympathetic person so sometimes when i defend these groups they get suspicious and i get upset lol
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@Lex You sound SO much like me, or at least like your experiences. Something my therapist has been really interested in is this obsession I have not only about the HOCD but then also about worrying how I’ll be perceived
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This is exactly what I’ve been going through... this is so wild to me...orientation can’t just change overnight remember that. It’s because your mind finds a stimuli to fuel the OCD. I’m not physically attacted to any guys but my mind makes me try to believe I am. I even keep having these repetitive dreams where I’m in some type of battlefield with the gay thoughts and I manage to make it out and outside waiting for me is a girl who I want to pursue. It has to mean something, it has to mean my fight ain’t over and we can do anything and everything to not let this thing beat us.
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i try to tell myself "if i wa really questioning, would i really obsess over it this much?" like i have talked to my mom about rhis and she said she'd love and accept me no matter what, same with my family and friends but that doesn't make me feel any better lol, just gotta push through!
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@Lex You’re not gay if it makes you anxious. Gay people are happy to be gay. They embrace it. I would rather live a life with OCD than be with a man. That’s how I know who I am...like I said, your orientation doesn’t change over night
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Me too bro
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So my ocd theme changed to sexual orientation ocd last December after I heard a popular video "hi, I'm Gibby" and I went like the Gibby sounds like "gay", then I started saying the phrase and over days, I started getting intrusive thoughts "I'm gay" .(I have had other ocd themes: (magical thinking ocd, symmetry ocd, health concern ocd, religious and spirituality ocd and harm ocd ever since I was 12, they just come and go)....I struggle with other conditions(ASD and bipolar disorder). I have never struggled with sexuality or questioned it because I have only liked males right from when I was in grade 1🥲...I still like them. SO-OCD is very frustrating because deep down I know I'm straight and there's no evidence I'm not but the intrusive thoughts and compulsions to get relief (the cycle) won't stop. I'm on fluoxetine(Prozac) and it did help my symptoms but lately I realised I'm more consumed with compulsions and idk but I think it's reducing the effects of the drugs?.. I see an attractive female and my mind goes like you found her attractive you must be gay or I want to go out and do sumn"what if you discover you like them or are gay" ...idk it's frustrating, very and I'm tired. I don't even get turned on by same sex or any😭that what even makes it more confusing.+ It's almost like I'm now hypervigilant when Watching videos or Instagram reels...it making me forget that finding someone physically attractive≠sexual attraction...idk if anyone gets me...(Rn my ocd themes are SO-OCD and religious and spirituality ocd) SO-OCD is frustrating, I'm tireddd...how can I never have struggled with sexuality for almost a decade and half but I'm having it now(it's started two months ago)...who has had/have this theme??
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I have just recently realized that I had SO OCD. This began whenever I was watching porn and had an intrusive thought about the guy in the porn. It was more minor at first, it was a majority of what I was thinking about throughout the day but it didn’t feel as distressing at first. If I had downtime to think about it, it would affect me but if I was just going about my day I wouldn’t notice it. I began going through the compulsions of checking myself. This lasted for a while until another obsession occurred. Then it seemed as if my SO OCD took a step back. I would have flare ups but they would seem to pass. Recently, I had a very bad night of constant compulsions and looking at pictures and imagining things to check myself. After that night it was very distressing, it affected me to the point where people around me began to notice and ask me if I was okay. One of the big reasons I was so upset was my girlfriend, we have been together for over 3 years and I want to spend the rest of my life with her. I was thinking “Oh my god, if I am gay I can never be with her.” I would sit and cry about it thinking I would lose her and that might life would change because I was gay. I finally had enough and talked to her and my parents. We did some research and I was so shocked to find out that I had a form of OCD, it was like a weight being lifted off my shoulders just knowing that other people have been where I am and that I’m not gay. However, I may have naively expected the compulsions and obsessive thoughts to go away now that I knew I had an actual problem. But I found that the compulsions and thoughts were still there and I was going to put some effort into getting better. I have researched and now know what to do when experiencing intrusive thoughts, yet I still have been performing the compulsions which is just feeding into the OCD. I find myself having intrusive thoughts and then start performing compulsions to see if they are true. What really bothers me is when I have an intrusive thought that tells me that I do like something. But when I think about it I have no desire to pursue those thoughts. However when I feed into the compulsions they just seem to feed into each other. It is like my OCD ignores all the things that I know I like and goes straight to panic mode. I am also trying to do ERP and am going to start doing my best to get better. Does anyone have any tips for not performing the compulsions no matter how anxious you are feeling and no matter how real the intrusive thoughts seem to feel?
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So my OCD has been bad lately. I’ve been ruminating and obsessing over my sexuality again. And it just keeps getting worse. I hate it so much. I try to sit with the discomfort but then my ocd does the backdoor spike. And the groinal response is what keeps me looped. It SUCKS. I am not attracted to men, but my OCD is trying SO hard to convince me that I am. There have been days where I’m just so mentally exhausted that I “accept” what my ocd tells me and I just walk around a hollow, lethargic shell. But then I rethink it and I feel better. It feels like I can only find my TRUE self when I tire my nervous system out enough that it literally breaks down and has me suicidal and hopeless. And then accepting my OCD’s “truth” (that I’m attracted to men) feels like a burden and a chore. I woke up today from an OCD dream, tried to go back to sleep, and my stomach kept cramping bc I was so anxious and ruminating over my intrusive thoughts. I’m starting to doubt it being OCD anymore. My brain is too tired to fight and cry about it anymore.
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