Anyone else get triggered by certain celebrities? Whenever I see them I feel the need to check if I fancy them or not

Yeah I get triggered my masculine presenting women a lot :(

Yup sameee, bc I start the whole cycle of trying to work out how I feel so I look at photos of them or something then I get the whole “wow I’ve been looking at photos of them for a while that just mean something” thoughts

@MelodyMoo Must* not just

@MelodyMoo Yeah and also u never can land on an 100% answer cos ocd ! Now I just have images of random women in my head popping up all the time

@Anonymous Yup! I guess that’s why we have to accept the uncertainty haha, because there is no answer really, I just feel like I need one :(

Exactly it’s just a weird way of it getting us, I think it just latches onto certain people too

@MelodyMoo Probably makes most sense, just so scary how convincing it is

@Anonymous It is really scary :( I hope you’re doing okay tho!

@MelodyMoo I am I’m trying, I deff feel better than I did but it’s not an easy thing to beat, how are you doing?

@Anonymous I mean if it was easy it wouldn’t be a disorder haha! It’s gonna take some time but we can do it :) and I’ve been doing a lot of compulsions recently which then obvs leads to me over thinking and giving into my thoughts which isn’t good haha, I need to push myself to do erp more :/

I read somewhere that erp can sometimes become a compulsion! I can’t remember the details of it tho :S and I’ve watched orange is the new black! It’s a really great show honestly, there are some triggering bits but I watched it before I had this theme so idk how triggering they’d be now! Lemme know how it goes for you tho, I might also watch it again for erp haha :)

@MelodyMoo And ocd loves to grab onto things which are important for us, obvs your relationship and love for your bf is important so this theme makes sense, It’s so nice to hear you have someone you love that can support you!! For me I’ve always been a hopeless romantic and dreamed of having a bf so of course I got this theme too hahah

@MelodyMoo Yeah literally it’s the most important thing to me which is why ocd has latched on. I’ve had rocd aswell which is pretty horrible and still do a tiny bit but it’s not as debilitating as it used to be. It’s just hard because I think there’s literally nothing stopping me from living my life but at the same time, everything is stopping me. Its a weird state to be in!

@Anonymous Yeah I get you! Weirdly I have some rocd things even tho I’m not in a relationship hahah, but it all kinda relates to my HOCD. And yeah mental health is honestly the most horrible thing, it’s just so hard to treat! If much rather have a physical problem than this

I had it for like a year when I was 16 but I went to cbt therapy and it went away other than it popping up really small every now and then, but in jan this year (in the uk lockdown) it hit me really badly again, and now I’m doing erp with nocd :) what about you?

Apparently ocd can be genetic! And it must be so nice to have someone around you that understands what you’re going through :)