- Username
- JM1998
- Date posted
- 5y ago
I fear for my masculinity as well. I've found myself worrying too much about my sexuality. I've lost my sex drive almost completely and I feel like if I find myself with a girl I won't feel anything, let alone getting anything going down there. I went from being a guy who absolutely couldn't stop thinking of girls to not feeling any attraction anymore. I keep obsessing about what happened in the past or how I failed to perform a couple of times and forget the fact that I loved girls ever since I was really young. Heck, I think of my experiences and I feel calmer, but that's just another compulsion...
Great to hear that you’re seeing a better therapist! Way too many don’t have enough experience and knowledge about pure O. I try not to rely on my thought no mattet if they’re «good» og «bad» cause I know that regardless an intrusive one will come eventually. OCD has really affected my attractions and sexuality in a way that makes me fear for my masculinity. And it’s terrifying. But I try my best to look at The bigger picture and think that my now is not my always. And things can get better through recovery.
I hope so, just feels like my brain is tricking me..
And now my groinals have been a slowed down which is good, but it’s like as soon as I see a nice looking female, I feel it, then it goes away instantly, and it’s just nothing but doubting and researching and I can’t help but to do that. Kinda scared
It almost feels I’m doing it on purpose
I can attest to that. It's recent for me though. Last time a girl stuck a conversation with me I felt everything. The spark, the anticipation, the excitement. Now I can't feel anything :(
It’s a scary thing. But that’s what OCD does. It scares us and makes us stuck. Hitting us where it hurts the most. I rarely experience attraction nowadays when I’m around girls. And that really sucks. But dwelling on it and doubting myself will only make it worse, so acceptance becomes The only option.
Why do I feel doubtful like if I get intrusive thoughts it bothers me but when I say like my thoughts don’t defy me and I know I’m straight I get like a weird panic attack and feel doubtful even writing this makes me feel doubtful but I know what I am and I know what I want and know who I want to be with now I feel doubtful but I don’t like this feeling it makes me sad can anyone relate ???
My initial thoughts are not as scary bc I’ve been doing erp. For example, when an initial thought comes across I don’t go into panic mode, instead when the thought comes across I tell myself “maybe yes maybe no” and I feel better. But the thing that is getting to me is that the next thought is usually “did you just suppress a gay thought” and that makes me go into panic mode. And I feel bad because I’m like damn if I am suppressing these thoughts that would be sad like why cant i just decide on one so that I could be happy. You know? And I didn’t have these thoughts before. It’s so annoying because I constantly feel like what if I’m in denial. And it makes me question whether I’m happy with or attracted to my boyfriend. I want to be happy so I’m like do I leave him and maybe date women, but then Im like oh no i don’t want to do that I want to be with him and be happy with him. Anyone going through something similar?
(sorry long post, here's backstory) 1.5 years ago I got into my first ever realationship, (I'm 18+ now) and there were extremely levels of turmoil. 2 ish years previous to this girl I was anxious about liking animals, liking children, being a rapist, or being a racist. But the thoughts weren't extremely bad and I could normally be like well ODVIOUSLY I'm not and move on for the most part. However 3 months into the relationship she said "if you like someone and don't tell me, and I found out later, I would think your raping me" (BAD PERSON AS STATED PREVIOUSLY) And ever since that moment I don't think I've been the same, all of the thoughts are much worse and in that relationship I couldn't go 30 minutes without telling her "I think I like blank" "I think blank is hot" then it transformed into not just being that but also being "for a second I think I thought u were fat" "I think I think you're ugly" because I went under the thought process of 'well I have to tell this person every thought because what if I think something that she would want to leave me for and I don't tell her' Now, I am in a new relationship and this person is the best person I could ever ask for, complete opposite of the previously mentioned person. However about 2 months ago the thoughts started again. I decided though that I couldn't get into the cycle of telling her every singlele thing because it would hurt her and not even help me. Currently I'm convinced I'm transphobic, she's trans and I am either convincing myself I see her as a man, even though I'm a lesbian so I ODVIOUSLY wouldn't date her if I did, or that I have a fetish for trans people, or that I am dating her for some other twisted reason. I refuse to bring myself to complete the cycle by telling her and being like "is this thought ok" but it's eating me up inside and I find it hard to enjoy myself, it takes up 75% of my waking thoughts
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