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- 6y ago
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Trust me man, performance anxiety is WAY more common than people will tell you it is. No Fap is actually really helpful here, both as a physical drive but also to get out of your own head, which is super important in terms of not getting anxious about, well, getting anxious. Secondly, it's okay to be gay. Not saying you are, I don't even think that you are, but it's still okay. Well done for sharing, I've also got some dark sh*t that I would never be brave enough to share. Way to go.
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- 6y ago
Hi there!
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- 6y ago
This was me a couple days ago. What are you up to?
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- 6y ago
I just can’t find a coping technique and that freaks me out. Like this has been with me for so long now that my HOCD is basically trying to convince me and one of my biggest fears is sharing all this stuff with someone and then them telling me that they think I’m gay. I’ve suffered from doubt and uncertainty my entire life and I’m afraid I’d believe them or like it’s like going to a doctor fearing the worst and it comes true. I’m not having fantasies or genuine curiosity but it’s like making me so sad that it’s killing me that I can’t find a coping technique to make it go away or even reduce it. This is hard for me to say but what happened to me is I stopped having sex after college, just never happened. And finally the first girl that wanted to sleep with me, I couldn’t perform and my anxiety took me to “if you can’t perform for a girl, maybe you’re not attracted to girls” and now that’s stuck. That’s so hard for me to say and now my emotions are completely clouding everything I knew and loved about my old self.
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- 6y ago
And then there are times that I don’t panic and that in turn gives me panic. I’m just tired of this and just want to find a way to make myself happy.
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- 6y ago
It’s going to be okay my friend. I fully understand feeling anxious about not feeling anxious. What that means is that you are truly worried about it. OCD is a huge liar about everything, even emotions. Doubt and uncertainty are also huge characteristics of OCD, so that’s what I believe this is.
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- 6y ago
I appreciate that. Really I do. That definitely helps. I know there’s nothing wrong with being gay. One of my closest friends is gay and and I’ve always supported his lifestyle. Ive gone out with hundreds of girls, made out with tons of girls at bars, always imagined myself having a gf to go on dates with. Just never got to the point of having sex. So what scares me is I can’t find a good coping technique to make myself happy and that’s where the anxiety takes over.
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I’m having a very bad evening with my intrusive thoughts. I was doing really good dealing with them but tonight one hit me hard. I’ve been having a lot of different intrusive thoughts but I’ll have one occasionally about hurting my mom or my dog who I love and they’re the only family I have in my life. They’re my world. I was helping my mom put away the dishes and I had the big kitchen knife in my hand and my intrusive thought was you could stab your mom. And then my brain said I had a twitch in my hand and that meant I wanted to do it. Let me just say that I wouldn’t hurt a fly. I actually caught a fly in a glass and put it outside instead of killing it this evening before this intrusive thought happened. I’m such a gentle and compassionate and caring person and these thoughts instantly cause me to have a panic attack. And I have no one to talk to them about. I know they’re hard for my mom to hear and I don’t want to be any more of a burden than I already am. I do desperately want to tell her and have her reassure me that I’m not crazy or a psycho. Then my thoughts wander to if your hand did flinch could you be a psychopath. Is hurting someone in you. I know it’s not but I feel like my mind is out to get me and hurt me. I’m working so hard and I thought I was doing so good but I need to know why I have these thoughts. They’re not ok. I need someone to help me make sense of why. I know we aren’t supposed to ruminate but I shouldn’t have thoughts like this about people I love and care about the most in the world.
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I’m sharing this bc I need advice or even support from anyone who can relate. If you can’t relate and don’t think you’ll say anything helpful or kind pls don’t comment anything… I’ve been struggling with somethings that’s making me question myself. There has been moments while self pleasuring when I get intrusive thoughts, in those moments it feels like I’m enjoying or even self pleasuring myself bc of the thought. Right after I immediately have an anxiety attack and my HEART drops bc it feels terrible I feel like a disgusting monster :( ppl have told me I haven’t done a bad bc of how intense my guilt and panic are but I keep thinking that MAYBE I made a horrible decision in the moment and the guilt is just realising that it’s just wrong this doesn’t make sense to me because I’ve always told myself that I would never act on this in 1 million years and I’ve been known that these things are wrong so I’m just like constantly questioning myself these feelings and exact same situation has happened two times already I even promised myself that I wouldn’t act on anything beforehand and yeah, I still felt like I did act on my thought during my alone time I’m genuinely convinced that I’m a horrible and it’s even got into the point where I don’t wanna be here anymore and I don’t even think this is my OCD :( tbh
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- 11w ago
I can't live with OCD anymore. It's ruining my life. I feel like I'm being constantly bullied in my own mind all day everyday. I don't know if what I think and feel is ever real or normal or okay, what is me and what is the OCD thoughts. I don't know if any of my experiences are normal. I'm exhausted from picking apart every single conversation I ever have with anyone until I'm strung out by a vague and ambiguous feeling of guilt. I'm tired of feeling like I'm a bad person and feeling scared all the time and not knowing why and having my brain spin me out on an endless spiralling train of thoughts that never goes anywhere and just makes me feel disconnected from everything and everyone around me. I don't know what I feel and if what I feel is normal or if anything I am doing is real and actually me or if I'm 'losing my mind.' I don't even know if this makes any sense. I get into these states of mind where every thought in my head and everything I feel and perceive makes me question my own sanity. I don't know if anyone likes me because I have absolutely no concept of what I am actually like. I feel completely lost and confused CONSTANTLY.
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