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Random question but do any of you suffer from low sex drive on top of all of this? Low sex drive is what feeds my HOCD so so bad because it makes me feel like I never enjoyed being intimate with men
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Yeah this a really common really shitty side effect of SO OCD :(
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Yep just yesterdee, same exact male-validation theme
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This is also a huge trigger for me. Especially because I really like male attention and validation and sometimes feel like I‘m craving it (I always had low self esteem). I never questiond this before ocd but learning about all this comphet stuff has opend the Gate to hell for my SO Ocd 😔
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@ta Yeah defenitly! What helps is to remind myself that the world is not as black and white as people try to make it. Just because some people had the experience of this being comphet, doesn‘t mean that I‘m also experiencing it. There a million other reasons why I like male attention 😅 And yes I have false attraction and I hate it. Basically it always happens when I find another woman pretty or nice or when they wear a cool outfit
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@ta I get it with manly looking women and I hate it!
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@ta I'm a woman
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@ta I was chatting with a friend (about boys we liked ironically) when I unintentionally glanced down at her groin. I has a sensation in between my legs that lasted about a second then as a joke I asked myself if that's what gay people experience then I suddenly panicked!! What if I had suddenly turned gay? It all spiralled from that.
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@ta Sometimes it does and it is extremly scary. Because with manly looking women my ocd can be even more creative by giving me scenarios I would actually enjoy with a man but insertes the Woman instead if you know what I mean 🙈
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@Maraki Since then I have these false attractions to male looking women, some of them are not even good looking. It's like my brain spots them before my eyes even see them. Then I get this strong attraction feeling. I know it's crazy but in the moment it feels real and overwhelms me with panic and I can't think of anything else.
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@ta I was 19 when is started. I am in my 40s now and I am generally really well after treatment and meds. The only remaining trigger is seeing masculine looking women sometimes and that can bother me
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@ta Being able to appreciate someone is attractive isn't the same as being sexually attracted to them. Unfortunately OCD doesn't allow the sufferer to tell the difference (thus the the false attraction messages you get) and that's what can cause the panic, upset and confusion.
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@ta Once you are able to calm yourself and accept that your brain thinks all sorts of thoughts and our bodies create all sorts of sensations and many of them don't mean anything significant about us, you will be more in-line with the way non OCD sufferers think and feel. Then you will be able to tell the difference.
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Ugh sorry for all the typos. I‘m not a nativ speaker and my phone does all these stupid auto-correcting things 🤦♀️
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Yes. This terrifies me
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I’ve always had incredibly low self esteem and as a result I felt having a boyfriend would “validate” me and now it’s coming back to bite me in the ass because of comphet
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I think that straight women want male validation too though. I think that’s more of a low self esteem thing rather than a gay thing
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I get scared of this too :(
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I was trying not to think abt it and honestly inwas doing a great job until a woman came on my fyp on tiktok and said “if u think women are objectively more attractive u re not straight” and now i’m so anxious and distressed and am scared i might be comphet. When i was little i remember being obsessed with the “i cant remember to forget u” mv so i rewatched it and thought it was sensual but nothing more. Idk. She also said that if u use a fantasy to get arroused around men u might not like them. Idk anything anymore Im so tired
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I am scared, because we both like each other. We get a long very well, and I enjoy his company so much. He has had top surgery, he has a sharp jawline, he's on HRT, but he also has long hair and pretty eyes. He acknowledges that while he obviously presents masculinely he also some feminine traits, he's a "girly boy". But I am scared cause I don't know if I am really attracted to him for any of the "masculine" parts of him. I am attracted to him, I think, because of the "girly" parts. It feels almost like I am betraying him, like I am attracted to him not because he's a guy but because he looks like a girl to me. Which would be horrible to hear if you're a trans man I'm sure. I have been refusing to accept it for weeks now. It can't be the case, I hope. I have watched gay porn before, a lot actually. But I have never had interest in men before him. Everything in my head points to me doing this shameful act, that this whole time I have been misgendering him in my head. I hate it, because I know in my heart that he is a man. He's even looked like a man in the past to me. So I don't know why I can only see the feminine side now. I just don't want to lose him. I love liking him. I want to talk to him like we always do. Am I gay? I don't know? Do I like men? Same question, but I still don't know. Why do I like him? Because he looks like a man or a girl? I don't know. I am just sad, and scared. My therapist tells me I have to live in uncertainty. I don't doubt her. I am not asking for reassurance, just advice. I also needed to vent. Cause my thoughts are spiraling.
- Sexual Orientation OCD
- BIPOC with OCD
- Relationship OCD
- Young adults with OCD
- "Pure" OCD
- Perfectionism OCD
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Hi everyone, I’ve been really anxious lately, and I just need to get this out of my head. Someone recently told me that maybe I’m bisexual — that I might be more sexually attracted to women, but more romantically attracted to men. That bisexuality is not 50/50. And ever since I heard that, I’ve been spiraling. The thing is: I don’t want this to be true. It scares me. I don’t feel romantic attraction to women, I’ve never wanted to be in a relationship with one. But yes, I get aroused by fantasies involving women — and that makes me feel broken or like I’ve been lying to myself. I love my boyfriend deeply, I don’t want to lose him. I want to feel fully connected to him, physically and emotionally. But now I’m stuck in this obsessive loop of questioning: “What if I’m just in denial?” “What if I’m not really straight?” “What if this is why my libido is low?” It’s exhausting, and I don’t know if this is OCD, anxiety, or if something is fundamentally wrong. Has anyone else felt this split — romantic feelings for one gender, sexual feelings for another? I feel so alone and scared. Thanks for listening.
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