Does HoCD mean this is not true? Does POCD mean this is not true. Definitely read these two articles! I do not know for sure, but perhaps your therapist said that it could be true because ERP is about accepting uncertainty. This is something you might want to clarify with them the next time you meet. In short, if you have SO OCD, you are not denying your true sexuality. Any OCD theme is about unwanted and distressing thoughts that are not true, but that a person fears is or will become true. This is what I was sent from a therapist??? I am so confused as people on here saying it can be true then some people saying it means it’s not true so which is it??? This is what’s leaving me so badly with some much conflicting Information.

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Well the jist is that a thought is a thought. Thoughts dont always represent true desire. Brains are assosiation machines. So while an intrusive thought MAY represent a true desire, it is also possible that the worry/unpleasantness of the thought means it gets marked important. And causes it to come up. At the end of the day you are not your thoughts, so if you have an instinctual or moral contradiction to a thought you can choose not to align yourself with it. And before you can know what you really think of these thoughts, you need to learn to not be alarmed by them first, so that you can more clearly see if there is a true answer, but the alarm doesn’t go away until you accept that there is not necessarily a true answer. But you can still live a full life without that specific answer. I hole this is helpful

I think it’s all about accepting uncertainity. Cause saying it’s not true is providing reassurance. We dont know if it’s true or not It freaking terrifying I just read what @omtbtnom wrote and my heart dropped and i was like “what if i stop caring about the thought and realize i like it?? Omg omg” So im still scared its true and that i’ll never like men or be attacted to men and have all thise things i dreamed about w/ a guy, cause i don’t want that w/ a girl even though im feeling false attractions to girls that send me into an anxiety spiral and make me nauseous and uncomfy, and no attraction to men which makes me so sad:( but that’s a possibility we have to accept:(

So are you saying this can be true why have therapists said this isn’t true then