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Yes! Immensely! I keep thinking how SO OCD must be perceived from their end, oh it’s just denial, you’re not accepting your truth, etc. And recently since I am starting NOCD I have been very judgemental of myself and my thoughts that ERP is just conversion therapy which I am so against. I am such an advocate for everyone to be themselves and express who they are and have always supported that and now I feel guilty and disingenuous. Thank you for sharing this.
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Maybe this is a reassurance, but at the end of the day, I feel like LGBT+ community would support the notion that we just want to be happy with ourselves and be true to ourselves and we are struggling. I feel like acceptance is the core tenet of that community !
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I have had the same fears about erp therapy for soocd. I think at the end of the day though, there's a big difference between erp (where you accept anxiety and act on what you value, acknowledging the complexity of sexuality) and real inversion therapy, which is a literal form of denial and thought suppression. Remember, erp is the opposite of thought suppression. Erp is accepting all feelings and thoughts and moving forward acting on what we value. I know how ocd can latch onto that though and how scary it is <3
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@Whatabtme How insightful. Great way to look at it. Thank you
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Yes absolutely. It's very difficult my best friend in the world is gay and some of my close friends are members if the lgbtqia+ community, as am I bc I would call myself bisexual if I had I had use a label. I feel a lot of guilt and shame because my ocd makes me feel like people would find those intrusive thoughts to be phobic. It's why I don't share my ocd with my friends for the most part.
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people who have so-ocd, do you feel like you’re lying to your partner secretly. i don’t know why i get these intrusive thoughts but my mind continuously keeps making scenarios where i will leave my girlfriend in the future for a man. i want to stay a lesbian forever and i don’t want to hurt my girlfriend and it makes me so upset that my brain makes these thoughts up. i really hate all these thoughts and i don’t want to be with a man, i don’t want to be attracted with one, i don’t want to like one or anything related to one.
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Is anyone here actually gay and has/had sexuality or religious ocd? I don't have it at all haha I'm a lesbian myself without socd or religious ocd but I'm just curious: what's it like and how did you deal with the whole "biggest fear coming true" thing?
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I was wondering if this also happened to anyone. I grew up very open-minded and allowed myself to question my sexuality when I was younger. I explored feelings for both genders and attraction to them from afar, because I didn't have any friends or experiences to guide me through them. When I started dating, I was open to both but slowly and surely naturally phased out women. It always felt performative, like pretending to be upset they didn't respond, choosing who to be attracted to, and while present with them, wanting to back away or feeling a level of discomfort. When my SO-OCD started, these experiences made it very difficult to navigate the anxieties and intrusive thoughts. My thoughts often circled back to the idea that if I wasn't attracted to women, I wouldn't have tried to in the first place. This type of thought is like a Catch-22. On one hand, I am surveying my past actions or memories for any signs of true attraction or trying to pick at moments where I could prove that I was actually uncomfortable. On the other hand, the thought of being uncomfortable with a moment is tainted in my brain because of the idea that I could just be in denial. Any emotion I've ever had gets scrutinized in hindsight, making it feel like any way in which I feel is wrong. SO-OCD has been particularly difficult because of the fact that I've never been pejorative towards being queer or the LGBTQ+ community. It goes against my own values whether or not I am actually queer or actually straight. I remember growing up in an environment (whether school, family, or friends) that was always lined with prejudice towards any type of outsider - OCD makes me feel ashamed for my own want to understand any group or background different from my own. Essentially, I wanted to know if that's also something that plagues others with SO-OCD. For me, no matter what side of the fence I fall on my OCD rewrites it as bad: Either I'm in denial and lying to everyone even though they already secretly know, or I'm a homophobe. Sometimes they even mix. It doesn't make any sense.
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