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Its a common OCD symptom. Analysing past interactions is a form of compulsion. Think about it for a second. Before your OCD phase you never thought "WHAT IF". You never considered these interactions with the famous girls to be becaude of attraction. OCD caused you to feel this way. It has happened to me too. Before my OCD phase i never ever thought anything like that but once the intrusive thoughts kicked in I started to wonder if i actually liked any of my best friends sexually which wasn't the case. Stay strong and not give up. OCD can play with your brain a lot. It is gery convincing. All you can do is never try to fight or analyze yhe thoughts just learn how to live with them. That way they will become weaker.
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I feel like we share a lot of things with HOCD, I also ruminate about past decisions I’ve made with wanting to be popular and putting those girls on a pedastole. Later I wonder if that was because I wanted to be with them and I wanted the guys to give me attention but nothing more. I was not accepted in the popular group tho but I stayed, and now I think it might have been because I liked them, but at the same time those thoughts never occurred in that time?
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I have something so similar to you guys!!!! When I was younger I always looked up to a lot of older girls that i considered cool and kind of wanted to be like them. I guess i kind of idiolised them but my OCD latched onto this topic SO bad even though I know I only wanted to be like them because in my eyes they were cool you know?.
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@ewaedb Yes! But if we think about it objectively, it never was about being in love with any of them? But if it was crushes of mine then i don’t believe in love because I don’t want love to feel like that.
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@🥰 the thing is with me I have made people think I’m someone I’ve not and this all started when I was 11 so to the people I have proved I’m something I’m not, they’re all girls btw, I’m always trying to say stuff so they’d overhear to see that I’m not the person I think I am and then my brain is like oh your crushing on them then
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@🤎🤎 I feel you, i was extremely insecure when i was younger (i still want approval tho from girls and i am 19)
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@🥰 yes aww haha I want approval from girls too idk why I feel like it’s cos girls can be bitchy and want to drag you down and when they compliment you it means something idk. but then my brain is telling me it’s bc I’m attracted to them🙄
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@🤎🤎 I have the exact same thing!!!! I also think for me it's because girls can be super judgemental, so when I'm liked I feel like it means something.
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@ewaedb yes same! Now I feel like I’m not alone aha!
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a few months ago i liked this boy and I snapped him a lot and during that time I don’t think I had any intrusive thoughts or anything but as soon as I stopped talking to him all the intrusive thoughts and compulsions came back but my brain is telling me I never liked him
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- 25w
So basically, I don’t know when this started, but basically whenever I look at a girl, a girl on a phone screen, or even a cartoon that’s a girl, I have this weird tendency that I like them, even though I’m straight. And though I am fairly young (still a teen), I’m positive that I’m straight, but my mind is giving me these weird feelings and signals that I’m not. And disclaimer, I do not have a problem with people with other kinds of sexualities, but I am feared for my life about this. I’ve honestly been keeping these tough emotions and feelings in me for days now. I don’t want to tell my mom because I don’t want her to think bad of me, and we also live in a Catholic household, so the thought of having a different sexuality is a lot on us. I’ve done some of my research, and since I’ve had many different types of OCD for quite some time, I’ve come to the conclusion that apparently I have SO-OCD or HOCD (basically the same thing.) I don’t know if this is true or not. But some other websites have told me that it’s just a part of being a teenager and growing up, and finding what love interest suits you the most, but I honestly have no pleasure with this whatsoever! I constantly think about, “oh, what if you like this girl right there?” Every time I walk past a girl, and sometimes my mind agrees with it, but deep down I don’t want this. And even sometimes, when I’m watching a video, or looking at boys in real life, looking at boy cartoon characters, most of the time, my mind tells me, “this boy is cute. I am attracted to him.” But other times, I completely disagree with that statement. Same with girls, so I don’t know. And also my mind tells me, or something in me tells me that the guys at school that I like, I don’t like them anymore, and instead I look at the girls, in which I know that I’m not attracted to, so it’s just a continuous cycle like that and I don’t know how to stop it. Someone please help because I don’t really know how to explain this, it’s just tough on me.
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- 16w
Sort of a rant that probably sounds stupid and I’m kind of seeking reassurance… I’m still a relatively young teenager so I know I’ve got time to work all this out but I’m really confused about my sexuality. (I’m a girl) I’ve never been in a relationship (I don’t know if I want to be which is why I’m writing this) and sometimes I feel like I’ve never really had a crush and I just convinced myself that I did because I wanted to feel normal… but then maybe that’s false memory ocd??? I don’t really want to be in a long term relationship with a guy and idk about girls but idk if that’s just cos of my age??? Some days I hate the idea of ever dating, marrying or doing anything sexual. Other days I wish my mental / physical health was better so I could date someone! Everything I feel goes up and down a lot and idk why!? I have bad sexual intrusive thoughts that make me unsure whether anything that I think is real and my parents recently split up after not getting along for a few years. I don’t know if it’s my age, my ocd, my parents bad relationship, my sexuality (am I attracted to guys, girls? Am I ace!!!!???) Or something else but I have no idea who I am and I KNOW I’m young and have time but some other perspectives might help???? Can I ever be in a relationship if I have ocd like this? Also I’m really struggling not to compulsively seek reassurance and I don’t know who to talk to about all this irl I know I probably shouldn’t share this with random strangers but also idek if I care anymore 😭
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- 12w
I am very depressed right now. I really feel like maybe I’ve always been a lesbian and never knew. I never questioned my sexuality when I was young, never wanted to explore, I just was straight and didn’t think anything about it, that’s just what it was. I had my first soocd spiral in late high school but didn’t have a name for it, just that I was having intrusive thoughts and it was killing me that maybe I was gay. I can’t exactly remember how I got out of that but I continued to have crushes, talking stages, and dated. It went away and that was that I guess. Looking back now I definitely was still avoiding content and certain people, and still had intrusive thoughts but didn’t think I was gay. I guess they were less sticky. Something about me is that I’ve never had a boyfriend and I’m a virgin. I’m very shy and romanticize things like I love the relationships and scenarios I read about or that I see in movies or the thirst traps online haha. So I want that irl but am disappointed when that doesn’t happen. I have a very interactive daydream (started when I was 13 and still continued that fantasy world now too) with a boyfriend, friends, and a prettier version of me. I enjoyed making up scenarios about sex or romance in those daydreams and fantasies, but when it came to real life, I would get shy or scared when things were starting to get serious with men. I thought maybe this was an avoidant attachment style but now I’m not sure. I never considered female fantasies and I still don’t want to right now. I want to test and see which one I like better, but I’m afraid I’ll find that I’m a lesbian and I really don’t want that. Ive always imagined myself with a man but now I’m worried about comphet. I’m really depressed and I can’t tell because yes, I find some women attractive whether it’s their makeup, face, body, aesthetic, but I never thought that meant I was attracted to them in a sexual or romantic way until this spiral. Now I’m afraid of masc lesbians and pretty women because it triggers me. But I’m also afraid because I feel like I can look at attractive men, but I don’t feel the same way anymore. I can’t even daydream about them bc then my brain inserts a woman. I’m really scared that I’ve lost myself, because I truly feel like I have, but I don’t want to explore with women, I just want to like men, I’ve always liked that idea. But so many lesbians talk about liking celebrities, fantasy men, or just attractive men. Sorry for the rant but I’m struggling a lot right now. I feel like all my memories, even the ones that directly contradict being a lesbian, can be explained away by comphet, internal homophobia, denial, suppression, etc. When I do try and accept uncertainty, sometimes it feels ok, but then something will trigger me and I’m back at square one. I’m afraid if I take my meds I’ll discover something about myself that I don’t want to because I’ve always been depressed and avoidant of life because it never lives up to my expectations. My sexuality is on my mind 24/7! I can’t take it!
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