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Totally get it š thatās almost the exact same story I had myself growing up when sexual orientation OCD hit me actually. Iām so sorry youāre going through this. It is tough and draining. But you have a whole lifetime with moments filled of strength, resilience and wellbeing in front of you š . Allow yourself to be okay with not knowing 100% your sexuality. Thoughts, feelings, attractions, responses etc all ebb and flow and most or all of them actually donāt require our hypervigilant assessment! Our brains are just working too hard on the things that trigger our obsessions for something that doesnāt even need figuring out to begin with!
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- 19w
Hi,im a fourteen years old girl. I live in a homophobic country,and i dont have any experience. I grew up and became homophobic just like my family and my religion.but in 13 year old.i was questioning why lgptq is illegal?while they are just being them and canāt select what they are? So..i became an agnostic or atheist by secret.oh,by addition,before i became atheist i was making sure i donāt like women,like looking at women pics and imagine some romantic or sexual senarios just to find out,(and i wasnt feel anything and didnt like them),and i was happy and comfort for being straight (i was liking fictional men and some actors,within experience except an online male friend i liked but we didnāt date).but after being atheist,its like fire,i start developing HOCD,im not officially have that because I canāt have a therapist,but i have the Symptoms 100%. I didnt know whats hocd ,i find out whats it before a month.when i was struggling with it like 7 months,so,i think it started when i was in very close friendship with a girl in school,i was confused.if i liked her or not,i was imagining,questioning,making scenarios,but i couldnt have an answer,but then i was comfort to keep it just friendship.when the questions about her go,i can see her normally as a friend and i dont think of her or text her every day and it sometimes reaches months in summer holidays and its normally to me,no romantic acts about her,but then i had a new friend to the group and i had the same thoughts and questions to her.and now my brain questioning if i like them bothš¢.ok.this gone.this is before year,before being atheist.after being.i was questioning ādo i like women?ā Or when i see a fictional woman,i start to look at her and questioning myself and try to catch any feeling,i swear i would accept myself to be gay or bisexual,but i just canāt feel or accept that..i feel like burn.i cried and cried.it somedays turns so hard that I canāt even study or live normally.i also started to lose my attraction to men.i feel like its gone,I canāt now imagine being a man without getting uncomfortable,i miss the days when i was enjoying imagining kissing and sexing with a man.but,hocd,always reminds me i have no experience,and its all imaginary,so I donāt have a real clue from beginning that im straight.and i also read an girl experience with hocd and she became a lesbian at the end,i get so scary.it feels so real.i just wanna cry forever.im afraid that i will like a girl in the future,it chock me and burns.i hate this feeling.to thr god i dont know or believe in,please,if i like women,just let me feel it normally without this fear and hurting.i dont want to be gay.i dont want to like women.i dont want to be bisexual or lesbian.but if being any of those but comfort without this feeling that makes me wanna suicide.i would accept,please.just please,i even canāt get a therapist,even online,i just want help.please.i dont want to be like those girls that find out they liked women all the time,im scared,i miss my old feelings and trusting.i hate this.i just want to die if its mean hocd to go.i feel like its so real and i will love a girl no way in hell future.i even feel its not wrong to like women,like its much better and more soft that men,but i just canāt.I canāt.i dont know,i did everything.i gave myself permission to find out or explore my attraction to the both genders but it hurts me more.i dont want to get hurts again anymore.just remembering i have no experience or clue i like men even if in past felt like i would like and date a man and liven with him,i keep reminding its all was Based on imaginationā¦even if i was wishing to love a man,hocd ruined this peaceful feeling,i was really find peaceful of loving a man.but now,i donāt feel like before,and this scares me,i donāt know what to do.I canāt have a therapist,and dont even know how to get better,,,
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- 16w
I feel like I'm lying to myself, like I just don't accept that I'm gay, I don't want to be gay, I don't want to feel any kind of attraction anymore, I want to go to a psychologist to find out if I really have hocd or if it's just an excuse, because it feels like I really am gay, but nothing was authentic, it all started with thoughts that made me panic extremely hard and I felt like crying and I had delusions, I don't understand why this is happening to me, I didn't like any boys before the thoughts appeared, but exactly one day after they appeared, all the boys were attractive, of all ages, I want to recover :( I'm only 17 years old, for about 2 months I've been having thoughts, I don't know what to do, I can't go to a psychologist, I need help :(
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- 14w
I really need help understanding what Iām going through. For a long time now, Iāve been struggling with thoughts and feelings about women that confuse and scare me. Sometimes I feel this strange emotional or mental āpullā toward certain women ā itās not exactly sexual, and not clearly romantic either, but it feels like something, and it triggers deep anxiety. When I see a beautiful woman or a WLW (woman-loving-woman) couple, I feel something that I canāt explain ā sometimes I think itās just admiration or aesthetic appreciation, but OCD keeps telling me: āYou felt something, so you must be gay,ā or āYouāre hiding something.ā I get stuck in endless loops, trying to analyze these moments and label them. Even when I feel physical or emotional reactions, they donāt feel natural or aligned with who I am. They feel like a reaction to the idea of women, not real attraction. I try to be honest with myself ā I even told a friend I might be bisexual at some point, just to test if that felt more comfortable. But it didnāt. It made things worse, and I felt like I lost touch with who I am. I donāt want to lie to myself or live in denial, but Iām exhausted. It feels like Iām being mentally forced to feel something that isnāt mine. Iām 14, and I understand that things might still be developing, but I canāt help feeling like Iāve always been drawn to men, and never naturally wanted women that way. Still, I keep doubting everything. Is this real attraction or OCD feeding false feelings and thoughts? Can OCD create emotional or mental sensations that feel like desire? Iām so scared that Iāll lose myself, or find out something I never wanted. I just want peace and to feel like myself again.
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