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Completely relate
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Does it make you feel like you like it? But then it makes you anxious so you shut it down?
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@Acrasia Yes, in a way it feels im liking them and i can see myself liking it and feeling like its pleasant and natural etc but its feels weird like It feels different than how I felt about women, Idk tbh Im very confused and lost
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@Imaan7 Same my brain is just foggy now
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@Brave through I know, feels like theres no way I can go back to liking just girls now actually feels like I have 2 attractions now idk. No anxiety either
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@Imaan7 I don’t know what to do or how to help myself out of all this
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@Brave through Im sorry you are going through this, I wish I could help but I dont know either : (
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@Imaan7 This freaks me out too at the thought of being bi, I’m not comfortable with the idea of being attracted to both sexes. Like I only want to be attracted to guys but ocd keeps writing me off as bi. I really don’t want to enjoy those thoughts and feelings of liking women.
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backdoor spike alert! this is a common trick that the ocd tries to play. once you start to recover and not be as anxious about things, the ocd may make you start doubting what you truly want and have you think things like, well you like those things now, you must otherwise you would be anxious. try to practice non-engagement as much as possible - maybe, maybe not.
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Understand this going through the same bullshit and losing my sanity. Do you suggest something?
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Yes for Second but the anxiety is so much that i just shut it off completely
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But still have the thought as in i like this but hocd thoughts are not liked so is this denial and so on and so forth the vicious cycle starts.
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I’m undiagnosed cause I can’t find a good therapist in my country so I do some self erp to at least help, I’m hoping so hard this is all ocd even when it feels so real
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Same !! You will be okay we need to learn to live in that uncertainty even if its the hardest to do so
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I’ve had so many moments of clarity with my OCD that I love my boyfriend and I’m beyond willing to go through this to be better and be with him. in the back of mind I’ve in a way known I was at least somewhat sexually attracted to women (I’m a woman) since the start of the ocd it was always like “okay. Fine, but I don’t want to date a girl” I only just realized this after the ocd started, I never really argued with this. my ocd has always revolved around if I’m romantically interested in women and not men. I’ve done so many compulsions through this year and a half and 9 times out of 10 have come to the conclusion that I don’t want to be with a woman romantically. I always end up feeling like I know I love my boyfriend. But the doubts don’t stop about whether I want to spend my life with a woman instead, my heart literally breaks to think of not being with my bf and imagining him with someone else. I don’t want to be with a woman I know deep down somewhere underneath the anxiety that that’s not what I want. It doesn’t feel natural for me, unfulfilling. I want to tell my boyfriend about the possible sexual attraction to women (ik it’s still ocd related) but I’m scared that once I tell him, I’ll realize that I actually do want to be with women and not with him. Ugh I’ve spent hours today ruminating about this after being solid in my commitment with him for a little while, I’m stuck in this loop and idk how to get out right now
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I don’t know if it’s SOOCD. I no longer feel anxious in the moment when I think about women, and it’s like my imagination wants me to think about it and get aroused. I don’t want to be gay, but maybe I am after all. In my life I haven’t been so sexually driven before (when I was living with a man, or when being single) but now all I can think about is having sex with a woman. I don’t want to, but somehow my body does and it feels like my mind have changed to accept it to.. feel so sad This all started around 4 weeks ago..
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When first triggered it was every male possible. I couldn’t even go shopping… it was all ages of male, all sizes, and the groinal response was non stop. Like always a feeling there. Then it calmed down but male voices… I couldn’t listen to the music I use to enjoy or movies I’ve always been interested in. Then it kinda dyed down to people who are good looking but I’ve never in my life been attracted to males and beards. I couldn’t even always say they are good looking but never had this fear, the head ache constantly pounding feelings before. Now it’s still good looking males but I’m noticing body shape now? What is this!? Soon as I see a male figure my body feeling like it goes into shock, preparing for the anxiety feeling of ‘false’ attraction. It makes me sweat, and nauseous. Is this OCD or after 32 years of loving woman now gone? I don’t really have attraction towards woman (brief moments but not how I use to be) and this makes me so depressed. I don’t want to live like this. The only thing stoping me is my children and wife.
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