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Google is your worst enemy!!! Hahaha I know from experience
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I had this horrible pattern about 2 months ago.. I got in my worst state ever. I was doing ok with everything then I had a lot of stress happen.. found out I failed an exam, boyfriend and I broke up and I was in a foreign country alone. My HOCD went insane after I hadn't been spiked in almost 3 years. I was in my room for 3 weeks straight googling everything till I literally couldn't see anymore... yes.. it was a bad stage of my OCD. Anyways, I broke free of it by letting go and just accepting that yes I may be gay. I stopped googling. I started accepting the possibility, got on meds, went to therapy and I'm finally looking back now and seeing how irrational and altered my thoughts were. I can kind of tell now when its OCD because I was in a state of fear...when I'm calm and doing all the right things for OCD, I just let the thoughts be there and they don't bother me as much.
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- 6y ago
Very good advice waterlady my number one compulsion was google when my ocd was severe, I could spend hours upon hours on it. Accepting uncertainty is the first step to recover!
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I mean.. I'm still not ? but slowly getting there - therapy, meds, exercise, eat right, social life and keeping busy. I try and read an OCD book every night and learn more about OCD and how the brain works versus trying to figure out the "truth". Sometimes I go through past events to show of any signs if I was "gay" and I think that's very bad because it's selective attention to past events... as in, if I'm searching, I could probably find evidence because in looking for it. Does that make sense?
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But waterlady when you did this 1) how long did you take to “feel normal” 2) what did you do to feel normal
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And when I slow down and really meditate on it - what is it that's really bothering me if I was gay? And I think it isn't that I secretly love the same sex and don't want to be gay cause of label... its more because I'm devastated to think that I won't ever be with a guy again... but when I'm stressed or in my OCD headspace - I just repeat the same question in my head - am I secretly gay? Haha OCD is... STRANGE.
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Yeah so how mine started was I was really stressed had exams and getting more money aspirations. Then I just started over pancaking I’ve secretly liked/been curious about tranny porn. But this started from normal porn years ago (26 now) I’ve never until recently questioned being gay like at all, and there’s nothing wrong with being gay I’m just not gay. But fetish weird porn to fufil my inner desires.
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But I think now I’m at a stage where I’m so anxious about myself that everything and anything is now an ocd I think it’s called pure o(cd) learned of this today
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I’ve realised that I’m actually not gay but questioning myself due to fetish’s from porn and believe my issue is a combination of an addiction to porn orgasims and anxiety of wanting to be successful
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Sorry for the essay but I’m only understanding my problem today and coming to terms with it and dealing with ways to beat HOCD which is really just a branch of PURE OCD
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And in regards to weird porn I even sometimes like feet, blowjob porn anything but normal porn sex I guess I’ve been hyper-sexualised by porn?
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I’ve had so many moments of clarity with my OCD that I love my boyfriend and I’m beyond willing to go through this to be better and be with him. in the back of mind I’ve in a way known I was at least somewhat sexually attracted to women (I’m a woman) since the start of the ocd it was always like “okay. Fine, but I don’t want to date a girl” I only just realized this after the ocd started, I never really argued with this. my ocd has always revolved around if I’m romantically interested in women and not men. I’ve done so many compulsions through this year and a half and 9 times out of 10 have come to the conclusion that I don’t want to be with a woman romantically. I always end up feeling like I know I love my boyfriend. But the doubts don’t stop about whether I want to spend my life with a woman instead, my heart literally breaks to think of not being with my bf and imagining him with someone else. I don’t want to be with a woman I know deep down somewhere underneath the anxiety that that’s not what I want. It doesn’t feel natural for me, unfulfilling. I want to tell my boyfriend about the possible sexual attraction to women (ik it’s still ocd related) but I’m scared that once I tell him, I’ll realize that I actually do want to be with women and not with him. Ugh I’ve spent hours today ruminating about this after being solid in my commitment with him for a little while, I’m stuck in this loop and idk how to get out right now
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I’m 25 and never ever thought this before my soocd relapse. I have a bf of 5 years. Never been a high libido kinda girl. Don’t get me wrong I do get turned on by my bf but not like every day you know? - That had always been in the back of my head, is this normal and ok? But my ocd has latched onto the most scariest what if EVER. My brain is now saying How do you know you won’t prefer to sleep and kiss girls if you haven’t tried it: and it’s that unknown that is scaring the shit out of me. I DONT AND NEVER HAVE wanted to sleep / kiss a girl. But now my intrusive thoughts is all I think about!!! I don’t want I don’t want I don’t want??? So why does my brain think BUT WHAT IF??? I know ocd thrives off uncertainty which is why I think this is happening? But I don’t wanna find out or work it out because all I want is to be with my bf and marry him!! Is this just the epitome of OCD?
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Hi, I'm 17,about to be 18. I've been struggling with these thoughts for the past 8 months. I was wondering if someone experienced ever the same because I feel im "different". BACKGROUND: (I'm not diagnosed with Ocd but seeing a local counselor) About 9 months ago I cheated on my boyfriend with this guy S (who blackmailed, manipulated and molested me). Since then when I realized that what i did was very WRONG and so I started ruminating picking apart every single interaction and telling my boyfriend, i tried to remember every single detail because otherwise I felt like i was being a fraud and hiding things to save myself, i had many crisis about it because I had also what i think was false memory ocd. My boyfriend forgave me idk how tbh I still wonder. CURRENT STRUGGLE: Months ago I was sure I didn't wanna S in any way and i was sure even when everything happened. For the past 2 months tho I've been having thoughts like " Do I love S?" "I love S" "S is hot" "Would S find me hot?" "What if I want S?" " What if I don't love my boyfriend enough?" "What if I secretly want S?" "What if I see my boyfriend as a friend only?Do I?" And I tried testing my reaction to intimate scenarios with S, I'm scared I like it i dont really wanna love S or have any secret attraction, I wish I didn't have any of this and I want to be sure of my feelings for my boyfriend because I know I wanna be with him and I see a future with him like he brings me comfort. But a part of me keeps trying to convince me otherwise. Sometimes I think I'd rather die than have these thoughts. Im so scared of not being able to control my feelings, im scared I can't resist S and its giving me anxiety and making me cry. Sometimes when i think of those sexual scenarios with S or I get those thoughts my mind tells me to smile because i like it because I find it funny. It makes me doubt myself all over again. Like I'm always like I need to test if I'd feel aroused to intimate scenarios with S, lately im trying to fight this urge to test and test but my mind is like "just do it this once so you can be sure. I can never watch anything romantic or sexual or whatever because my mind would be like "you and S" or sometimes I'm just enjoying time with my bf and im like " yes we can just have a sneaky cheating thing thats ok" and it makes me want to figure it out to find an answer a solution because idk it just does like I need to find the meaning of it if it means the truth and all. Im worried im just an awful person and these thoughts just ruin my quality of life . Today i had a crisis where i ended up doinf swlf harm, I'm so scared of finding someone that's not my boyfriend desirable or sexual appealing or whatever it is, I also have bodily reactions when I try to imagine and test my reaction to scenarios. Now i keep groing everytime and I dont know why but i have this sensation and I dont want to havebit especially when its something S related. Does someone experience the same thoughts? Am I alone in this? Is this ROCD? What should i do?
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