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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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- 6y ago
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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- 6y ago
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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- 6y ago
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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my therapist suggested that some of my less bad rocd intrusive thoughts are actually mine, and not intrusive. She ended up taking it back when she saw the alarm on my face and saw how panicked I got. I feel really freaking anxious. We were only talking about it because I mentioned a lot of doubt surrounding those less bad ones, but it only filled me with more doubt. I don’t want those thoughts to be mine. I really don’t. I feel scared and so discouraged after this session. I feel scared about the worst thoughts, what if those aren’t intrusive. I feel so much doubt.
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This might contain triggering content, but I'm also wondering if others have dealt with this similar thought, and if so, how to deal with it? Overall, I've been doing so well these past few days. I'm able to eat again, which I hadn't been able to do because of how much anxiety I'd been experiencing. I'm spending time around loved ones and not just rotting in my room, and I've been able to wake up without immediately being bombarded by intrusive thoughts. When things first got really bad, I'd wake my mom up every night for reassurance, but I haven't done that in a while either. I'm really proud of myself, but there's still this nagging thought in my mind... While looking through others posts on here, hoping to find advice that'd fit my situation, I ended up making things worse. Someone mentioned how they had a fear that they'd purposely search for illegal content (related to POCD). I panicked, and "what ifs" flooded my thoughts. "What if the intrusive thoughts affect who I am as a person, and I do that?" I'm terrified that I'll search for those things, which I know means I wouldn't do it. But then, another person on here said they'd actually looked for those things, and that freaked me out even more. Does that mean it's possible for that to happen to me? I don't want to do that, but I keep having intrusive thoughts surrounding it. I've been doing so well these past few days. I'm just... stuck. I don't know what to do. I've spoken with other people who have the same fears, but how do I manage this? It's not something I've even thought about before seeing those posts. I've been practicing accepting the uncertainty, but I'm really struggling with this one. I hate this. This morning, I woke up, and the intrusive thoughts were back. It's just disheartening.
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Sorry long post. Anyone feel like now they’re just in extreme denial. Like when I was little I noticed guys more than girls in movies and was more drawn to them. I remember changing my mindset to switch that. 98%of my life has been straight until recently. I felt drawn to some guys but never thought of it sexually. Always had girl crushes dreams and porn. Now I watch porn and I feel like straight takes longer and then I go and watch gay porn and feel nothing until I tell myself it’s two attractive dudes and love is love and imagine physical sensations and then it hits like suddenly. Like I have to convince myself it’s alright. Then when I try again I can do all that but feel nothing and then straight porn works. Idk if it’s just getting a fix or the first time works with anything or what but it’s confusing. On top of that I’ve felt girl relationships including my wife maybe miss something and a guy maybe matches that feeling that but then I feel like I’d be missing something without a girl or my wife. Idk I’ve had some rough times in life with male figures in my life but idk. I feel like I have to convince myself more and more that I’m straight even more than the first time I dealt with this. Can someone relate? Please
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