- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 3y
Me too! I was always anxious about it and never wanted to be perceived as gay in any way. Thatās why when I got aroused by anything girl on girl I had to keep it some huge secret because if others knew than they would think Iām gay and that would be awful to me.
What do you identify as ?
Also so glad Iām not alone
@OCD33 I identify as straight female!
@Corie Do you struggle with this theme?
@OCD33 Yes it is my main theme and pretty much my only one, although it can go into rocd as well.
@Corie If you donāt mind me asking how old are you? And when did this theme start?
@OCD33 25, it started to get more than those thoughts when I was younger and severe/everyday debilitating thoughts at 21 just before turning 22
@Corie Okay Iām 26!! I had these thoughts as a kid but didnāt know I had ocd. I got diagnosed with ocd at 23!
@Corie How do you cope? Are you in ERP?
@OCD33 Yes I am through nocd. I went through their program twice and it has helped me a lot with my compulsions and resisting them
@Corie Are you on medication?! I guess my biggest fear is that I have never been turned on just looking at a manā¦. I need like touch, personality, love etc. OCD takes this as proof
@OCD33 I am not on medication
@Corie What are your biggest compulsions?
@OCD33 When this all started I did a lot of checking (looking at girls and guys to check arousal), googling, even masturbation to ātestā myself. Those were the only ones I saw myself doing and stopped those more phsycial compulsions. Now I only ever do mental compulsions, reassuring myself, scanning my past for proof, proving and disproving thoughts, and rumination the loop of trying to actively figure it out all day. Now I barely do any and if I notice myself getting into a rumination trap I can get out of it. Now I just try to not reassure myself by checking the app or by me saying it isnāt true
@Corie Have you ever been āturned onā seeing women portrayed in a sexual way?
@OCD33 Yes, this and lesbian/gay sexual acts (porn, scenes in movies, pictures, seeing others even irl) has been stuff that has aroused me and āturned me onā since I was very young. This is the major proof/evidence my ocd uses against me. This also makes me super insecure as well like straight people donāt think or get turned on by this. So being comfortable myself in this way and accepting it is something I try to work on. I can barely call a girl hot, pretty, gorgeous without feeling like Iām gay and hiding it and āthatās why when I say it Iām uncomfortableā
@Corie Thank you for sharing this. This is what my ocd also gets hung up on as proof. Do you think itās ocd? I have never had like feelings for a female or wanted a future with one⦠my ocd will say welll you have never been with a female so maybe youād like it more š
@OCD33 I think so, I hope so!! šš I have never wanted to be with a girl, never had feelings for one, or wanted a future at all! Lol
@Corie Do you get turned on just by looking at a man?
@OCD33 No š I have to be like attracted to him in some way and not just only physically
@Corie Omg I feel so validated !!! I thought I was the only one
@OCD33 - hey how are you feeling?
I need too know that I'm not insane, really. I am 16 and for the past two weeks, this has been completely ruining my health and happiness. I only recently came out as a lesbian like 3 months ago after a lot of confusion about my attraction since I used to think I liked men. At first, I felt so sure that I liked women, but lately, I've been having these unwanted thoughts about the possibility of liking men. I never used to feel this way, but now, every time I look at a man, my brain obsessively fixates on it. It forces me to imagine kissing him, loving him, things I donāt want, and then tries to convince me that I do. Itās painful. The thought of this fills me with fear and anxiety, leading to panic attacks and breakdowns. I donāt want these thoughts. I hate them with every fiber of my being, but Iām terrified that one day Iāll act on them and somehow like it. I used to think I liked men, but back then, I was in a very unhealthy space in a time of escapism and something deeply parasocial. Iāve only ever liked the attention and validation a man could give me, but these experiences are somehow treated as further proof that Iām "bisexual." Iāve never been in a real relationship with anyone, which makes my brain constantly challenge meātelling me, āYou donāt even know what love feels like.ā It wonāt shut up. It keeps obsessively trying to make me prove that Iām a lesbian, testing my reactions and questioning my certainty. Is this normal?
Iāve always been straight my whole life and Iāve never considered being different nor have i ever had attraction to women but lately Iāve been going through a lot of different thoughts that definitely feel unlike me. When I was a kid and I donāt remember how old I was but im sure like 7 or 8 and my cousin that was I very close to had me do inappropriate things to her that I didnāt really know anything about at that time. After that happened to me I knew it was wrong and I felt so bad and disgusting and scared but at the time I didnāt really know anything and I remember when my mom would drop me over my grandmas house while she would work, Iād take my grandmaās phone and I looked up kissing videos and I saw the kissing scene from Jenniferās body and looking back on it I just feel so much shame and confusion bc it certainly feels embarrassing. My cousin always liked girls but I never did. I loved sitting and watching Disney movies preferably princess and the frog and wanting to be a princess getting married to a prince just like in all the movies. I knew who I was from a very young age and that never changed about me. When I learned what porn was at an older age, I started becoming hyper sexual so I watched tutorials videos of women to learn how to pleasure myself. When I was a kid and to now Iāve never looked at women in that way. Iāve had best friends and sleepovers itās never been anything sexual, romantic, or intimate. Just simply innocent friendships and hangouts. When I got to high school thatās when i started remembering what happened to me and i remember how the girls would talk about their first kisses and i remembered my sa and how I felt so scared to say anything to anyone bc I didnāt want people to think badly of me simply bc my first kiss was like that so I would simply just not say anything. Lately Iāve been having obsessive thoughts out of nowhere wondering if my sexuality has changed or if im bi or is it just my thoughts? Iāve always had ocd and even in school, the kids would pick at me because I always eat my food in order and by the lightest color. But lately itās gotten worse. Itās like Iāve never had thoughts like this nor have I ever been like this. Not even when I was a child. And humans question themselves of course but this feels like something different. Iāve gotten distant from my best friend whoās also a girl and Iāve just cut off social media and female friend relationships at all because for some reason my brain tells me that itās āgayā to even hug your friends or hold their hands anymore like you used to do when you were kids. I even got to a point where I would watch women porn and try to masturbate just to see if I was attracted to it or not like thatās how bad the thoughts got. It felt like an evil voice was in my head trying to convince me and sweet talk me to do and enjoy those disgusting things even when my body didnāt want to. I eventually had confided in my bf about it because he was also a victim of sa and so he helped me through it and I stopped doing it but then and my bf (now ex) broke up a couple days ago and now ive been dealing with this alone which feels like the hardest part for me. So Iāve texted my bff a lot to catch up because Iāve been distant dealing with this and I was just checking my phone awaiting for her responses to my texts because she tends to type slow and usually I never think anything of it because I used to check my phone all the time when I would await my boyfriends reply or simply just a text from him and so now im having thoughts like āwhy am I awaiting her textsā ādo I like my friend?ā Its just so many obsessive thoughts and so much overthinking that I am getting tired of because Itās been going on for months so I know this is a lot but please if anyone can please help me I beg, it would be such a great help appreciated bc this has became a really big impact on my life and not in a good way lol. Thank you !!
So I havenāt been on this app in a while. But I just want advice on how to overcome this. Iām now 18 and Iāve been trying out dating apps. Iām not gonna lie Iām kinda picky when it comes to dating only because I plan on dating to marryā¦so I take it a bit more seriously. But for some reason itās so hard to click with people on these dating apps. So my friend was helping me through this dating apps process. I told her that I wasnāt interested in this guy I was texting anymore because of the way he was responding to my messages. And she says maybe youāre gayā¦this is honestly the sixth time (Iām definitely over exaggeration but this isnāt the first time someone had said this to me) someone has ask/said this. Every time someone says this it literally sends me down this spiral of are they seeing something Iām not seeing. Despite never having a crush on a girl my mind goes down this loop of overthinking. And when I say I donāt want that lifestyle or I donāt really find pleasure in being apart of the lgbtq community my mind is like in denial. I just wanted to have a fun teenage dating experience and now every time I open the app I always think what if I really am gay and Iām just in denialā¦or what if the reason why Iām not connecting with anyone is because Iām really into girls. Since iām also religious, my mom wants to go what youāre denying who we are because of your religion. And I tried to reassure myself by saying I would know if that was the case like I would feel deep down who Iām truly attracted to and know that Iām trying to cover it up by dating men. This whole thing is so mentally taxing because I was going through this all throughout my senior year of high school and Iām not going into my freshman year of college so. Like I literally felt so much anxiety next to one of my classmates who was gay and a masculine presenting. I feel like if I wouldāve told this to anyone, theyād say of course youāre in denial. But ig reply if you can relate
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