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- 6y
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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...
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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.
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I hope so, just feels like my brain is tricking me..
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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
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It almost feels I’m doing it on purpose
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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 :(
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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.
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- 23w
I've been really overwhelmed with thoughts of detransitioning even though I don't want to like thinking I'm not a boy. It's been making my anxiety go up like crazy but I've never had this problem this much before, and I've always felt so proud of who I was and stuff but I don't know why this is coming up all of a sudden and I'm scared. I don't want to detransition but these thoughts won't go away. I often have feminine interests and have been trying to get into a better mindset and I feel like those things are making me feel more feminine and I don't want to feel that way.
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- 22w
it feels like therapy isn't working at all, like I've been super reluctant to participate or try and get better. I was doing really well at first but I've been in a slump with it lately, and the idea of doing exposures again makes me really scared. Like, I know if have to do them to get better but I'm so afraid that I'll pick something, watch it, and think the child character is attractive and start fantasizing about them. Like what if the only thing keeping me from doing that is because I've been avoiding them? Also is it normal for pocd to convince you that you prefer one gender more strongly than the other? Bc for some reason it feels more real with boys than it does girls (I'm mostly straight) and like.. idk I'm just not feeling good.
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- 20w
Im a straight man and sometimes I make the mistake of compulsively getting on here. It’s gotten better but I slip sometimes. I feel like I’m alone in this and I even read on some OCD page that Women are more likely to suffer from this theme than Men. That just makes me feel like I’m in denial of some sort. I feel alone and feel like my intrusive thoughts are different. I know that’s what everyone who has ocd thinks, but I can’t help shake the feeling like what if I’m lying to myself or what if I have some underlying secret. I don’t want to be gay. I find I argue with myself in my head over and over and sometimes by repeating “I don’t want to be gay, I want to be straight” I’ll end up saying the opposite and that would scare me even though I know that It happened because I’m constantly fighting with OCD. Just feeling a bit down today. I had a sexual dream about an ex girlfriend and it felt great and I’m not scared by it. I find and want to be with Women romantically til forever.
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