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First of all, great job in being able to collaborate with your therapist and be willing to do such an intense exposure! Doing this exposure, especially if you can resist your rituals before/during/after, will send a significant message to the OCD that you are ready for recovery, that you're not playing OCDs game anymore, and that you're the pilot of the plane. With that said, I think ritual prevention will be super important here. Have a strategy going into it - we know going into this exposure that you are going to probably have some intrusive thoughts, feelings, urges, etc - and that OCD will be hammering you with intrusive questions that you feel the urge to answer. Try as hard as you can to not answer any of those questions. Be in it for the long term benefits and the long term recovery even though in the moment, during that exposure, it may feel really hard. We believe in you - good luck!!
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i feel the same. I literally couldnāt sleep last night thinking ab how thereās no way im not lesbian :(
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I have been doing okay for the past week or so and was really happy i felt that i was getting back on track, but today i went on tiktok and i saw something triggering which was āi thought i was a lesbian for 4 years until i met my now boyfriendā and it triggered me very badly, i have been crying all day and i canāt seem to make myself feel okay. i feel like im lying to myself that im not lesbian and i truly want men, but when i get any thought about men it feels disgusting and wrong and not me, i donāt want men i feel so sick i want to get out of this. i always felt so happy as a lesbian im so stuck i donāt want to be with a man. i have a loving girlfriend i just want to be happy with her.
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hi iām a lesbian! and i have known im a lesbian for a really long time and i have a sweet girlfriend of 1 year. it all started when i saw this masc lesbian come out as straight, after that i had my guy friend over and heās a sweet guy and he was flirting with me (he didnāt know i was gay) im not sure but i panicked and my brain froze and i was like ādo i like himā, ever since my brain has been over worked 24/7 for 2 months now and itās spiralling constantly. im trying to control it but all these thoughts are so disgusting and my brain tries to put him and i in scenarios that make me uncomfortable and i feel panic and i hate it. i have always been comfortable being a lesbian and i still am comfortable as a lesbian, but i dislike these thoughts i have about him and men and i want it to be over. i do not want to experiment with men even tho my brain is telling me i do, i find it disgusting and i dread it, i have a sweet girlfriend and i want to be with her forever, i do not imagine anything with any men and i hate these thoughts. im scared of becoming bisexual/straight one day and i hate hearing sexuality is fluid. its a whole mix of comphet and so-ocd
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Iām like 90% sure Iām just bi, more romantically inclined to men, mainly my bf who I wanna marry. But now my brain is like āif you lean into liking women or keep circling and circling for answers youāll lose all attraction to men and your bf. Youāre practically already a lesbianā I feel so tense and anxious I will admit I am talking to chat gpt out of desperation Iām scared of losing all attraction to him I donāt wanna be thinking about women. I donāt unless Iām really stressed cuz when Iām stressed my ocd can take advantage of that I can usually ground myself when Iām in the city with him but Iām back home for most of the summer and I canāt be physically close to him which usually reminds me that hey this is real this is what I really want in life. Him But then I panic and question I havenāt been here in a while tbh. Iām worried I donāt feel enough. I donāt like magic Mike all that much, I like softer guys. But now the fact I donāt like/get turned on by random men on tv but do women in lingerie really stresses me out and makes me worry Iām truly a lesbian but Iām not. Once I started getting to know my bf and my ex bfās I really did truly genuinely like them and wanted to make out and everything. Idk can anyone relate to the not liking big buff men All my brain is repeating rn is āwhen he dies youāll be able to date a woman, when you break up youāll only wanna date womenā and itās stressing me out. Itās making me nauseous. I was doing well for about a couple days after I initially left but being at home has been so incredibly draining This might give you a vision of how stressful home is: Iāve been on nexplanon for 7 months ish? Only had very minimal spotting during a stressful school period. Today: fully bleeding, like a usual period. I havenāt had my period since having it put in. I wanna go back to my bf so badly rn. Iām so worried Iām faking or donāt feel enough. Iām learning what a healthy relationship looks like and Iām terrified Iām gonna up and leave him when weāre older cuz Iāll finally figure out that Iām a lesbian or smthn. Idk. Someone pls just help me out a tad
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