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Same here. It sucks. I wake up and start checking to see if I've dreamt of anything that could be a sign that I'm “a lesbian” or “bisexual”. And then throughout the day, get intrusive thoughts and scenarios playing in my head just to wind me up. What's worse is that I'm not any anxiety and I don't know if itʼs because I've been on Lexapro for the past week.
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It’s the first thing on my mind when I wake up too. I went through a phase of testing to see who I’d rather wake up to. I haven’t done that for a while so now I just waking up thinking about how much I think about my sexuality if that makes sense. Also, this is what makes me think I don’t have OCD - you said you get intrusive thoughts throughout the day. I don’t know whether I get intrusive thoughts or whether I’m just questioning my sexuality. I am just thinking about it literally all day, I don’t think there’s a moment I’m not thinking about it so it’s not like it’s ‘intrusive’ because I’m not thinking of anything else for it to be intrusive if that makes sense. So how can they be ‘intrusive thoughts’? You know what I mean? I also don’t have anxiety anymore and that is confusing too.
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@b13 If you think about it, before HOCD, do you think about being straight 24/7? No, of course not. But because of OCD, you're worrying (despite the lack of anxiety) about it all the time. I'm sure people who are actually gay doesn't think about their sexuality all the time.
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WITHOUT imagining scenarios*****
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It’s even worse because I don’t even know if it is OCD. I’m not diagnosed, I have no other themes and I have so much evidence that it’s probably true anyway. I feel like everyone says that but .. yeah idk it feels true for me. I’m so tired of it.
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@b13 I have been diagnosed and I still doubt and worry if itʼs OCD or not.
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@greenteagirlz I’ve thought about it so many times over the years. Sometimes I think I must not be seeking out a therapist because I know deep down it’s not OCD. So annoying I just wish I knew.
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Same!!!!
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I’ve completely lost myself. I can’t focus on my studies, I can’t go to the gym. Dang it I can’t even be around my male friends normally anymore. I got no idea why or how this happened but the only thing I know for sure is that I never questioned my sexuality neither doubted it. I never cared in general. I just liked girls. I keep testing and keep testing and keep testing my arousal but no matter how many times I see but I don’t feel the same way for guys that I do with girls my mind will always try to make me believe that I am gay. It’s like it’s forcing me into an identity I never asked for. But at the end of the day like my psychologist told me. Sexuality doesn’t change. So since I never felt anything for guys in my life it’s ocd. I’ve been up and down for 5 months now and while the last week I was feeling way better. Monday now and I’m back to zero. I just want to go back when everything was normal. I can’t keep living with this.
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Like I can’t think straight. This is making me doubt everything I’ve thought about myself and even makes me feel like I like the thoughts when I know I don’t. Like I would be less anxious at a time while I still have the thoughts and my mind would go “oh so you like it you must be gay” or the other one where I’m not anxious and I think of my attraction for girls that I’ve had my whole life and my mind goes “see now you’re not into them you’re gay” like it’s so stupid but so effective. I clearly remember being into girls my whole life but my mind is making me believe that all these attractions and feelings for women were all fake or “a thing of the past”. But I can still get aroused by women but I have this weird anxiety going on which brings these sensations/feelings and it’s so weird. Today I’ve spent my whole day thinking about it like I’ve been doing for 5 months now. I know that this aint normal but my mind just won’t let me live in peace. I never cared about my sexuality cuz I simply liked women my whole life but now my sexuality is a fundamental philosophy. I hate this.
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I am a 18 year old masc lesbian with a loving girlfriend for 1 year, and I have been lesbian for almost my whole life and I have never been attracted to men in any way. flash to my past, My ex girlfriend who used to identify as a lesbian had cheated on me with a man. Recently I saw this tiktok of this masc lesbian turn straight and my friends and girlfriend made jokes I am going to turn straight for my male best friend. My male best friend came over and he’s a great guy but I do not want him in any way. when him and i were hanging out my mind threw in a thought it was “What if i like him”, i came back home and i had the worst panic attack and i felt so sick, i cried and i cried. ever since that day I have been struggling with intrusive thoughts, i don’t want a man in any way, and i feel comfortable as a lesbian but these thoughts won’t stop and they become worse when i see people say being lesbian is a phase or that i haven’t met the right guy or i’ll change in the future. i just want these thoughts to stop, i don’t want to stop being a lesbian ever, i love women so much and i just want all of this to be over with. i do not want a man in any way and im tired of my thoughts doubting myself and i hate the “what ifs”, I just want to be my old self, I want to be happy with my girlfriend.
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