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Just remember that your end goal is not to remove the thoughts, but to be able to acknowledge that they are just thoughts and not be bothered by them - which incidentally does not mean becoming okay with the nature of the thoughts, eg, if you are scared you will murder someone, accepting the intrusive thought will NOT make you a murderer or make you okay with murder - it just means you aren’t attaching meaning or anxiety to your thoughts. Hope that made sense ?
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Don’t listen to the above. You do get over HOCD, but it’s more about overcoming than “getting over”. For me I just let every thought go into my head as if they were normal thoughts. Like if I thought about my daily life. And if I’m anxious I try and go about my day or if I’m home I lie down and try and calm down or I just play fortnite or something or watch YouTube. So far I’ve gotten a lot of intense feelings of attraction for men that come in for awhile and then out again. But that in itself is progress and all I need.
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- 6y ago
You get over it by ERP
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- 6y ago
Tons of people have gotten over it, and you can too. The best thing you can do right now is aggressively look for an ERP specialist
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Does anyone with so ocd get scared or feel like they r just going to suddenly realise they r gay. Like all of a sudden you’ll be like omg I’m gay and then I get scared like ong it’s happening to me Can any relate to this
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So for a while i have been suffering of HOCD combined with a little of ROCD and had massive episodes of anxiety and panic attacks, because of that I lost my attraction and my libido while also being in a relationship and that stresses me bad. Also since the start of the severe anxiety I started to lose it gradually over time and at the moment I do not feel any anxiety anymore while having these thoughts which makes me think that I want this to happen because they don’t disgust me anymore. Any advices on how to hold on and get over my OCD? Also is the disappearing of disgust a sign of recovery or denial?
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Sorry long post. Anyone feel like now they’re just in extreme denial. Like when I was little I noticed guys more than girls in movies and was more drawn to them. I remember changing my mindset to switch that. 98%of my life has been straight until recently. I felt drawn to some guys but never thought of it sexually. Always had girl crushes dreams and porn. Now I watch porn and I feel like straight takes longer and then I go and watch gay porn and feel nothing until I tell myself it’s two attractive dudes and love is love and imagine physical sensations and then it hits like suddenly. Like I have to convince myself it’s alright. Then when I try again I can do all that but feel nothing and then straight porn works. Idk if it’s just getting a fix or the first time works with anything or what but it’s confusing. On top of that I’ve felt girl relationships including my wife maybe miss something and a guy maybe matches that feeling that but then I feel like I’d be missing something without a girl or my wife. Idk I’ve had some rough times in life with male figures in my life but idk. I feel like I have to convince myself more and more that I’m straight even more than the first time I dealt with this. Can someone relate? Please
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