- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 4y
It means you had something bad happen to you. That’s all. Any meaning beyond that is unknowable and it’s a waste of time to keep trying to “figure it out.” I’m so sorry for what’s happened to you. And there is absolutely nothing abnormal about the things you did after or how you’re feeling now. This is pretty typical of ocd to use these things against you. Are you seeing an ocd specialist? You’re at the perfect time in your life to start taking control of your mental health. And the sooner you get the right treatment the sooner you can get back to being you.
Thank you for that I am about to start seeing a specialist next week. I need this I just find it hard to accept those things for myself I just don’t understand why it had to happen right now when I’m trying to become a grown man and transition into my older self, it’s getting in the way of everything I want to accomplish.
Your words mean a lot thank you fo real!
I have been through the exact same thing. I mean exactly. I was molested and I also doubted by sexualality. It’s okay. This is not you, this is your OCD. You already know who you are. I would highly to not act into your OCD though. Don’t google, don’t ask anyone else what they think about you, talk to your girlfriend about this. And here is hard one, accept these thoughts. Basically, you need to do some ERP my friend. I can testify that it works 100 percent of the time. Let me know if you have more questions.
I honestly do have a question I know reassurance isn’t always good for this stuff but I just want to know this, my mind always doubting everything now I can’t even walk the same talk everything I do is questioned I still have sex with my girlfriend and stuff but it’s like right when I leave her all the thoughts rush back is she my crutch for me? Just why does she make feel better possibly and how come when I leave her I can’t be sane the thoughts rush back like I can’t be by myself
@Anonymous She is not your crutch. Again, this is your ocd. When you are with her, you are simply in the moment. So you forget about your thoughts and you are present with reality. But when she leaves, you get time to think again. So don’t let ocd meddle your relationship. In fact, social support is the best thing you can do. Be with people, call your friends and catch up. My ocd heals when I am social. No she is not your crutch. And yes, you need to stop reassuring. But it won’t happen overnight. Please don’t give in to your ocd thoughts, at least physically. If you are thinking, you are thinking. But don’t let it change you or your relationship.
Have you spoken to a therapist about this? Were you molested or did you guys play inappropriately and you’re afraid of that? Bc children playing inappropriately is extremely common and is often a theme of people’s real event ocd! (Im not taking away From your story If you truly were molested). And either way you were a child, you’re not the same person you are today as you were yesterday so you’re for sure not the same person you were when you were 11!
If you’re on the ocd discord you can personal message me If you’d like!
How can I personally message you ?
@Anonymous Go on the “venting” chat, I messaged there, click on my name and then click where it says message
Okay so I'm young. A bit young than u might Imagine. Me and my boyfriend where bored and I searched up gay porn js as a joke on google. It was completely blurred. And we where js talking about our truma, and personal stuff while literally just looking at the titles. And I saw a title. A title that has trumstixed me before (I saw the actual video before involving a minor. ) and I clicked on it, still heavily blurred to show my boyfriend the title. And i said baby this really effected me this video. And then I looked below it, same video, blurred. Different title. And I clicked on it to stupidly read the other title. And it FUCKING UNBLURRED. and I SCREAMED saying to my boyfriend if he saw it. And he said no he looked away. And he was so unfazed. And I asked chat gpt about it and it said what I done was NOT okay. Because I looked at child stuff on purpose? My heart has just SANK. self harm urges are back. INTENSE confession compulsions to my mum are back. What do I do. Please someone help.
I’ve always been straight my whole life and I’ve never considered being different nor have i ever had attraction to women but lately I’ve been going through a lot of different thoughts that definitely feel unlike me. When I was a kid and I don’t remember how old I was but im sure like 7 or 8 and my cousin that was I very close to had me do inappropriate things to her that I didn’t really know anything about at that time. After that happened to me I knew it was wrong and I felt so bad and disgusting and scared but at the time I didn’t really know anything and I remember when my mom would drop me over my grandmas house while she would work, I’d take my grandma’s phone and I looked up kissing videos and I saw the kissing scene from Jennifer’s body and looking back on it I just feel so much shame and confusion bc it certainly feels embarrassing. My cousin always liked girls but I never did. I loved sitting and watching Disney movies preferably princess and the frog and wanting to be a princess getting married to a prince just like in all the movies. I knew who I was from a very young age and that never changed about me. When I learned what porn was at an older age, I started becoming hyper sexual so I watched tutorials videos of women to learn how to pleasure myself. When I was a kid and to now I’ve never looked at women in that way. I’ve had best friends and sleepovers it’s never been anything sexual, romantic, or intimate. Just simply innocent friendships and hangouts. When I got to high school that’s when i started remembering what happened to me and i remember how the girls would talk about their first kisses and i remembered my sa and how I felt so scared to say anything to anyone bc I didn’t want people to think badly of me simply bc my first kiss was like that so I would simply just not say anything. Lately I’ve been having obsessive thoughts out of nowhere wondering if my sexuality has changed or if im bi or is it just my thoughts? I’ve always had ocd and even in school, the kids would pick at me because I always eat my food in order and by the lightest color. But lately it’s gotten worse. It’s like I’ve never had thoughts like this nor have I ever been like this. Not even when I was a child. And humans question themselves of course but this feels like something different. I’ve gotten distant from my best friend who’s also a girl and I’ve just cut off social media and female friend relationships at all because for some reason my brain tells me that it’s “gay” to even hug your friends or hold their hands anymore like you used to do when you were kids. I even got to a point where I would watch women porn and try to masturbate just to see if I was attracted to it or not like that’s how bad the thoughts got. It felt like an evil voice was in my head trying to convince me and sweet talk me to do and enjoy those disgusting things even when my body didn’t want to. I eventually had confided in my bf about it because he was also a victim of sa and so he helped me through it and I stopped doing it but then and my bf (now ex) broke up a couple days ago and now ive been dealing with this alone which feels like the hardest part for me. So I’ve texted my bff a lot to catch up because I’ve been distant dealing with this and I was just checking my phone awaiting for her responses to my texts because she tends to type slow and usually I never think anything of it because I used to check my phone all the time when I would await my boyfriends reply or simply just a text from him and so now im having thoughts like “why am I awaiting her texts” “do I like my friend?” Its just so many obsessive thoughts and so much overthinking that I am getting tired of because It’s been going on for months so I know this is a lot but please if anyone can please help me I beg, it would be such a great help appreciated bc this has became a really big impact on my life and not in a good way lol. Thank you !!
Hey guys, this last week has been pretty rough for me mentally for some reason. Today in particular I’m having a pretty bad episode. For some reason about 30 minutes ago, I randomly started remembering watching the Step Up movies growing up. I remember seeing Channing Tatum in that movie and think he’s attractive, along with some other men I think. Then I started to wonder if that means that I’m into men, because I somewhat remember getting a negative feeling about it from that young age. I looked up on Google if it’s possible to not realize your gay, and the ai thing said yes and started talking about something called latent homosexuality. It also so said that some people start sleeping with a particular before ever actually discovering their sexuality. This makes me want to take a panted homosexual test, or something. Lately I’ve also been wanting to dive into my past with my therapist to try to see where my “ocd” stems from (if I even have it) or if I’m truly gay and have just be conditioned to be straight. I’ve been spiralling guys and I need was honesty and wisdom. Can anybody help me ?
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