- Username
- JM1998
- Date posted
- 5y ago
It’s okay, we all have really hard days. I always used to second guess myself when I was in a relationship and I never knew how to stop it. To be completely honest what helped me was hanging out with that person more. The more I was with them the more it took my mind off things and then more I fell more and more I forgot about what my brain was trying to blab on into my head. You are strong, and you will over come this. The great thing is that this app is a place for people like us to have support and someone to talk too. I’m always here if you want to talk, seriously. You can tell us all your problems and we’ll listen, and by expressing your feelings it will help you understand them more. It’ll get better and once you over come this it’ll be the best thing you have done.
The more I was with them, the more it took my mind off things and then the more I forgot about what my brain was trying to blab on into my head*
naturally your mind will then re look at her with no threat or scared of doubting yourself but just your natural attraction.
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Sounds like you're being really hard on yourself. Just accept how you feel. If it's a libido issue, talk to a therapist and see if you need a doctor.
I’ve tried accepting it, but it keeps coming back and then I’m in the loop all over again.
Challenge the thought and keep plugging at it. Maybe meds will help...
I feel man. It’s fucking hard to get out of bed, what screws with us the most is the guilt and the lie and it being completely related to feeling like we did something wrong or what if we do something or become gay in the future who will it affect who will it disappoint why didn’t I tell her? She’ll be upset....this is what I’ve been going through and it’s a huge opportunity for growth because it is challenging our highest vale’s and picking at our greatest subconscious fears. I bet you never guessed you would be going through this when u know you were just heterossexual? We can relate let’s talk!!!!
Our highest values ***
When you knew ****
Yeah man. Like it’s literally trying to find any way to mess with me. Now my head just feels weird, very cloudy, very convinced. I really hate irrational thinking.
It feels like a god daym curse...imagine me man I was the BIGGEST LADIES MAN IN HIGH SCHOOL...I would value women and the need to have women more than anything else in life...then this shit happens I start going to have sex with girls and start having ED...then that’s when I start doubting am I GAY?! And from then on my friend my life turned upside down ...my attraction to females went to 0.00000% IT WAS THE SCARIEST SHIT EVER. EVER....
My attraction to girls is back to normal. But the stories in my head continue to annoy the fuck out of me...
I’ll tell you what helped me....
When you loose attraction for women stay neutral ...in the sense where you’re not testing yourself to go look at a man and see if your gay but you are starting to accept the fact that you DONT NEED to be attracted to girls
I promise if you actually know your past attraction to girls that won’t actually go away....but challenge yourself with being ok with the fact that you might not be into her...keep the question of being into him nerutial too in the sense where YOU DONT HAVE TO BE ATTRACTED TO HIM (which is the compulsions and the checking) but accept that you don’t HAVE TO BE ATTRACTED TO HER
So looks like I’ve hit a wall I haven’t hit ever with this ocd. If you can even call it ocd. I genuinely feel confused. Idk what’s real or not. Idk what my mind or body wants. I feel so stressed out. My thoughts don’t give me anxiety anymore and sometimes it genuinely feels like I want it and I’m just hiding it. I don’t get it. I even lost attraction to this girl I was madly interested in. I don’t know what to do anymore really. I see any dude and my mind automatically starts thinking “you’re attracted to him” literally every single guy I see. I’m not even kidding. I really don’t get what’s going on with me. I haven’t been diagnosed yet because there are no ocd specialists in my area. My mom told me once she thinks she has ocd and my aunt as well. But their ocd seems more like the “traditional” type of ocd where you can actually see their compulsions. I think I struggled from Religious ocd a few years back. Also with my ex girlfriend there was a period where I struggled with ROCD I believe but got over it. Now Hocd has definitely been the worst and what makes it worse is that I actually had a gay experience but even after that I didn’t question my sexuality. I maybe would get the ocasional “you’re gay” thought but wouldn’t pay it attention and it just went away. But now it just can’t leave my head. This has been going on since February. I used to be crazy for women, don’t know what’s wrong with me. I even had sex with the girl I really like about 2 weeks ago and really enjoyed it! But now my attraction for her seemingly disappeared out of nowhere when this hocd bull starts acting up again. I’m so tired of this.
I guess I'm gay. This is it. Im attracted to both men and women, but I get a stronger sexual reaction to women. I dont want to be gay. I'm with a boy who I love, but now I'm scared that I love my best friend instead of him. Before hocd I had no feelings for her at all. I dont want to have feelings for her. Before HOCD I didn't think I was gay, but because of comments that I saw yesterday it feels completely true now. I'd like to identify as straight, but that feels wrong because if I was healthy Id most likely want to be gay, right? I hope that isnt true. I'm not allowed to identify as straight because that's just proof that I'm in denial. I'm deep in denial. I want to die. I need help. But I can't afford help. I don't get a sexual response from looking at either gender now, which is very distressing because checking no longer works. I don't want my boyfriend to leave my life. I dont want to stop being intimate with him. I love talking to him, holding his hand, and hugging him, and kissing him and having sex with him. I'm scared I'm only with him for reassurance now. I dont want to get help if that means leaving him, but now I'm scared that's because I want to be straight, not because I love him. The most fucked thing about this is when I first developed hocd it was when I was going through puberty. I'd be terrified that I'd accidentally look at a girls boobs or butts, not even because I had the inclination to. It started from there and for some reason I got the shit end of the stick and it developed into being true. Have I convinced myself that I'm gay and I'm really not? I've been dealing with this so long I honestly have no idea. This bothers me so much because it's all about sex. What the fuck does sex have to do with loving someone? Love is not sex. I fucking hate societies view on sex and sexuality. I'm scared that if I dont react to these supposed feeling for my friend then they'll haunt me for ever. I dont want to lose my boyfriend.
HOCD I’m so done with you. You’ve taken everything away from me and every day you make it harder to disbelieve you. I was so happy in my relationship, I was happy with my career. Now I wake up anxious and just don’t want to face the day. Now every little action that goes on in my life is sexualised. It’s become my life… just checking. And the worst thing is all I’ve got left is my compulsions. Because if I didn’t have them I’d probably fully believe you. People on here talk about suppressed sexuality/fluidity. Well I don’t want mine to change, I was perfectly happy going through my life with confidence, OCD was manageable to the point I forgot I had it. And the worst part is you’ve dug up all this stuff that I don’t even see how I can to back to how things were. How will I ever have my old life back when you’ve convinced me it was all one big lie! I had just got to the happiest stage of my life, ready to settle down, I wanted it so badly. And now You’ve taken that away as well, I don’t even know if I want it anymore. Sometimes you even make me resent my partner, telling me that if she wasn’t there I could go and live my ‘gay life.’ Well I never asked for that and never wanted it, had never thought about it. But months of HOCD later it’s all I can think about, now it feels like I do want that, like I do resent my partner. I can’t even kiss her anymore without you filling my head with thoughts. I want to be intimate with her but I can’t, I want to find the excitement and spark again but I can’t and yano what I’ve given up on it coming back! Thanks a bunch brain
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