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It’s important to note that a lot of people who are straight or sure of their sexuality don’t have a response like feeling disgusted or scared or anxious about being with the members of the opposite of their sexual orientation. They just know that’s not what they like and don’t prefer doing thing with that sex. It’s not a thought they spend a more than a couple of seconds on.
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Very good advice!
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@Hopeful8 Thanks!!
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thank you infinitely!! such great advice lol you're right stuff has been going on pretty well for the past 4 days so i guess that's why everything suddenly changed and i started worrying about the lack of anxiety
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Trying to get a definite answer to whether it’s OCD or denial is a compulsion. I know it’s hard, but trying to figure out the answer will only make your ocd worse. Even if you get reassurance, the relief will be only temporary. The only way out of the cycle is to tell yourself maybe it’s hocd or maybe it’s denial and sit with the discomfort and uncertainty. Eventually the anxiety will subside. It’s very difficult but it gets easier the more you practice. You have to train your brain that this obsessive question doesn’t need a definite answer.
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i know this is the best advice you could give but i feel really down like i thought i was doing better
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When the ocd isn't acting up, who are you genuinely most attracted to?
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men i've always wanted to be with men and never imagined myself with a woman i do find some women pretty attractive but not anything more then my mind goes like "imagine sleeping with her do you like it??" or "what if you like kissing her imagine kissing her what's your reaction" always had crushes on men though
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@Nour04 You're obviously a girl right ? I mean, I have pretty bad ocd and for a while I was dating a girl. I am a female myselfx I tried so hard to figure out if I was gay or not, Now I'm married to my husband. Looking back it didn't matter. It was a phase and fun while it lasted. I still sometimes fantasize about being intimate with a woman. Because it's a turn on for me. Maybe this is ocd. Maybe it's that I'm bi . Maybe you are bi curious or bi sexual. Try not to focus on it too much. If you want to try it our with a woman, do it!
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@Hopeful8 i don't want to and that's exactly the theme of my ocd at first the thoughts were so disgusting and disturbing but now they're not so disturbing anymore and it alarms me more because i thought i was doing better i don't want to try anything with a woman and given the chance i wouldn't either i'm just so worried my thoughts are true
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@Nour04 Then the reason they're probably so intense is because you don't want it!
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Hi! I get the exact same worries as you, I’m also a woman who fears they’re gay/ bi, I’m so sorry you’re going through this it’s really scary, I’m personally really struggling right now too. I saw you said that you get scared because the thoughts don’t disturb you anymore, I also experience this which then gives me anxiety about not having anxiety, I think this is called a back door spike? Naturally when we’ve had certain themes for so long the reparative thoughts/ images won’t be as anxiety inducing because you’ve thought about them so much (kinda what erp is!), but we still have these theme because we worry about the theme, but just the disgust/ fear isn’t there as much anymore because you’ve been thinking about it so much!
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thank you for your reply the thing that is bothering me more is that sometimes i get groinal responses and it feels like i actually like and want the thoughts someone had recommended a youtube video about this ans yes ocd can make you feel like you want the thoughts it's just not enough at this point i an sorry you're going through this too it's really dreadful you have my full support!!
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@Nour04 plus now my worry is that it's never been hocd and has always been denial since i had been doing good for about 4 days but today isn't that better
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@Nour04 You have mine too! Yeah groinal responses are a nightmare, I used to get them a lot too, I think what stopped me from getting them as much was trying not to care about them anymore, I just saw them for what they were, my body reacting to something, I accepted it didn’t necessarily mean I was aroused, but more I was just thinking “what if I get aroused” which then led to me focusing on down there which then caused a sensation. I’m from the uk and we’ve been in lockdown for a while, restrictions are easing now so going out had become terrifying for me. I’m constantly checking when I’m out if I’m attracted to woman, or if I’m attracted to men enough, it’s horrible :(
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@Nour04 We get ups and downs, I was better from this for like 4 years and it all came back recently. A good day is a good day, don’t let the bad ones over shadow it
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OCD is what causes you to ruminate on this thought which normally, you wouldn’t have spent more than a few seconds thinking about.
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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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Does anyone else with SO-OCD struggle with imagining a future partner and checking feelings? That’s been my biggest compulsion, and now I feel like I don’t want to end up with a man someday, or that if I do I’ll feel sad or lonely. I’m also sitting here imagining being with women and I can’t tell if I like the sexual thoughts or not anymore, or if my negative reactions mean anything. My face scrunches and I feel anxious and my temperature rises. I’ve been off this app for a couple weeks but still feeling anxiety pretty steadily. I keep imagining the future and getting this feeling and voice that I’m gay and I need to come out to everyone. It’s distressing and I don’t feel like myself anymore
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I've gotten diagnosed with OCD and I'm in therapy. But I'm worried that I don't have OCD/that I got misdiagnosed. And recently I'm worried that I've just gotten myself into a habit of thinking of dirty minded or just plain old terrible things after I see/hear certain things because I feel like I need to prove I have OCD or else I'm faking(sometimes this goes away). Or that I'm just mimicking symptoms of ocd to cope with real problems I may have and that im just really deep into denial. I don't know...I'm just so tired. I mean, what if I really am what I think I am and this is my brains only way of coping? I don't even really feel anything towards most of the thoughts anymore either I just know they go against my values and I don't want them. I don't know if that's because I'm so mentally exhausted, I just don't care, or that the thoughts are true and I'm comfortable with them.
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