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You have literally described my exact experience too with how this all started for me. I also completely understand your worry about not being understood by a therapist, I also live in a country where there is little understanding of mental health, especially complex issues like OCD. But I think the next step for you is to try and get a diagnosis. Look for therapists that do CBT, ERP, ACT and say they can deal with OCD. You can also try teletherapy if theres no appropriate therapists where you live. For now, it would be good to educate yourself on how OCD works - I recommend the made of millions website and this app too (theres blogs on the website). Hang in there, so many of us struggle with this you can live a happy life still ❤
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- 3y ago
Thank you so much girls! I hope I will stop thinking about it all the time and go with my life, I hope we will recover soon ❤️
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- 3y ago
I hope so too! Keep your head up and held high! Always here if you need a chat :)
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- 3y ago
I understand how distressing this can be, I also have this theme. I was the same as you, always loved boys and never questioned my sexuality at all unt this theme. My biggest fear is that I’ll never like boys again too, and I also have the whole “nothing brings me joy” thing. It’s all so distressing, so know you’re not alone. Past upsetting and traumatic experiences can very much effect us later on in life, I myself have been effected by things which I believe has led to develop all these anxiety disorders. With this theme the past way to overcome it is to accept uncertainty, as we will never get an answer as there’s no medical test or scan we can get done to tell us our sexuality haha. There’s a possibility that all of our thoughts will come true/ are true, but there’s also an equal possibility that they’re aren’t true/ won’t come true. It’s hard to accept the uncertainty and will take time, but make sure you’re cutting out compulsions (Googling, asking for reassurance etc) as that’s the first step! :) You’re so strong and brave ✨
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Best* not past
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I know that I should accept it and say to my self “so what if it’s true”, but I just don’t want to be with girl, i want my old self to come back. I think that even tho I would try to be with girl to figure it out I will be still anxious because I think it’s not truly what I want. But the whole thing stressed me so much that I can’t breathe and I feel like my heart is squeezed
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- 3y ago
@Adaa I feel the EXACT same way! I try so hard to say “whatever” but my chest feels so tight all the time, I try to do erp but I get so scared! I guess it’s going to take us time, and that’s okay
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- 22w ago
Ok so I’m a 17 year old female, and I’ve always thought I was straight. But I just really want to know how you would know the difference between so-ocd and actually questioning your sexuality. I have nothing against the LGBTQ community (in fact I am very much a token straight friend, lol) but I saw a video about comp-het recently and it sort of felt like what I was experiencing. I don’t want to be gay, I want to be with men, I want to like men, I’ve always liked men, but now I’m questioning whether or not that’s real? Because people can be gay but not want to be right? I’m single and I always have been. I think women are gorgeous, but when I try to imagine actually having any sort of romantic or sexual relationship with a woman it feels wrong, at least most of the time it does? Sometimes I’m less sure, and I’ve never been particularly boy crazy. I’ve liked maybe 2 or 3 people in my life, (not to say I’ve never found other guys attractive, but it doesn’t seem to be as often as most people) I have no particular reason to be afraid of being gay, very supportive family, safe area ect, but I don’t want to be, does that mean this is ocd, I don’t know what’s going on every time I say I’m straight I feel like I’m lying, but that might just be because I think about it so much. The idea of being with a woman doesn’t feel like something I would want, but is that just because I don’t want to want it? People online say things with so much sureness, if you feel like this it means this. Ect.
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- 14w ago
can someone with this theme help me i’m so scared and i can’t stop having panic attacks is this OCD??? So i always have struggled most with sucicidal ocd and harm ocd. i never really had any other themes. but recently ive struggled with SOOCD. My whole life i have never EVER been into girls ever and i could never even think of ever being with a girl in my entire life. i’m having extreme amounts of anxiety and i have compulsions to make sure i look at a girl and don’t feel anything towards them or anything. My mind is literally going “what if your just in denial” or “what if you’ve just been hiding it all these years” When i know i haven’t. i have all of the symptoms of SOOCD and i still know that im not gay,but these thoughts are extremely distressing and have been the worse to deal with. I’m constantly panicking and doing compulsions to get these thoughts to leave and they won’t. i’m scared and these thoughts are making my mind scared. What if i’m going against my morals and i’m lying to myself like and i just went through a tough breakup too so that is shooting these thoughts and anxiety. Please help omg!!!
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- 11w ago
I went to a therapist, I told her about the doubts I was having related to my orientation and the continuous compulsion to check again and again and the thoughts. I told her about my resources -podcasts by Ali Greymond, Chrissie Hodges 's videos, and the books I read to overcome and control myself. She said a couple of things that confused me: 1> Her daughter once asked her "what if she liked girls?" As a mom my therapist said, "Start exploring", and the daughter said naahh. I wonder if the daughter had a thought or was it a chain of intrusive thoughts that plagued her day and night like in my case. 2> She said my sources are right, but I should forget that and not think that I have ocd. 3> She also said if there is any chance I am straight, I should walk on that path- because she has seen lesbians and gays have no feelings for the opposite sex. She said she could see that I was not gay or lesbian in any way. 4> She was interested in my education and masters degrees wasted a lot of time talking about that. 5> She said all these thoughts are causing me anxiety disorders (but I don't have ocd, doc?) 6> She pointed out that being happy and in the present removes these thoughts totally but I am causing myself unnecessary distress. I was doing well before this talk with the therapist now I am triggered a bit. Please share your thoughts.
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