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When my OCD started out I had a lot of that and general running around trying to figure out whether I was really gay or straight. The bisexuality angle was another one that gave me relief for maybe a day or two before things started back up. Something that has helped me is to stop trying to fit into any one box. I'm not going to insist I'm straight, that I'm gay, that I'm bisexual, or anything. Instead of having a solid label, which gives certainty, I'm going to float around without a label in a sea of uncertainty. It wasn't easy at first, some days are better than others, but getting over that need for certainty seems to be a big factor in overcoming OCD.
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but i don't want to be with women and then my ocd is like "yeah you do what if you do but you don't know it yet there's proof what if you're in denial" but given the chance to date a girl i wouldn't but it'sso hard living with the uncertainty because like it's distressing and living with that without trying to figure it out will feel like i am surrendering and becoming gay
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Uncertainty is hard, but striving for certainty that you'll never truly have is even harder. You have to do what your comfortable with exploring, but I think you'd benefit with exercises really exposing you to the possibility of wanting to be with a woman. Once you're comfortable with that idea I think you could broaden your view to not ever truly knowing with 100% certainty what your sexual orientation is. What do those exercises look like? It could be opening up magazines or looking online for pictures of women and rating their attractive features. It could be writing journal entries about having a certain crush on a woman. It could also be writing out all the "bad things" you believe would happen if you turned out to be gay, and then accepting they COULD happen. All of this is hard, but small steps today will mean big progress tomorrow.
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wait so you're saying i want to be with a woman??😰
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@Nour04 I don't know what your sexual orientation is. I'm suggesting you practice getting to a place of accepting that you COULD like women. If you habituate to that idea it would likely be easier for you to accept uncertainty regarding your sexual orientation as a whole.
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@mastrguy the thing is i am scared to get habituated to it because women is not what i want
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@mastrguy and getting habituated to it would mean that i am accepting it and becoming what i fear
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No one can tell you what you are. BUT I believe that if I were truly gay, I wouldn’t have days where I felt totally straight.
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thank you infinitely ik this post was me asking for reassurance but i was freaking out because everything felt so real can ocd do that? make everything feel so real??
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@Nour04 Absolutely. OCD wants you to doubt.
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