BradOCD
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- 3y
Incognito Incognito
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- 3y
The problem is that sometimes people feel false attraction and when they feel false attraction anxiety comes with it and when that happens it’s makes our OCD even worse😅. It’s a nightmare
BradOCDBradOCD
- Date posted
- 3y
I do get this. However the anxiety I feel from it is becoming less and less, which just makes it feel so real. Sometimes I wish the anxiety would just come back
Incognito Incognito
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- 3y
Ocd will do that and it can do that. I felt so comdfident it was OCD then the next it felt way too real. It is just the ocd
BradOCDBradOCD
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- 3y
But sometimes I feel like it doesn’t bother me, and then the next day it really bothers me again. I just really don’t know what is real anymore. And even when i do feel okay with it I don’t like the fact that I might be okay with it. I don’t know if im making sense… sorry
mtaylor25mtaylor25
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- 3y
@BradOCD HOCD is my primary theme and i basically just had to accept that I’m attracted to some men and attracted to some women (bisexual). If I have a thought I try to let it have it’s space, and then pass. But I CHOOSE to be with my girlfriend, who I care about immensely. So it’s possible to feel both things at once - OCD and our choices. And if the relationship doesn’t work, you have to remind yourself it won’t be the end of the world.
BradOCDBradOCD
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- 3y
@mtaylor25 It just seems very hard to love and care for someone while I’m dealing with all these other feelings and thoughts.
xqrsljkxqrsljk
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- 3y
@mtaylor25 How i know, find people who have same sex witg you doesn't mean that you are bisexual, or you believe what your hocd said?.. I don't understand
Incognito Incognito
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- 3y
No straight man doesn’t think some men aren’t attractive😂
BradOCDBradOCD
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- 3y
Very true! And I had always been comfortable with this before now. And now it feels like I have no choice but to be with a man because that’s what my brain is telling me I like. And I feel like it’s been going on for so long that I’ve even started to believe it. It doesn’t make me feel good at all but is calms the thoughts ever so slightly
xqrsljkxqrsljk
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- 3y
Feel the same, but i'm female and hocd in the front of my rocd :( but i believe that we will feel better in the future
BradOCDBradOCD
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- 3y
I do hope you’re right
Jenna OverbaughJenna Overbaugh
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- Staff
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- 3y
This is commonly experienced for people who struggle with sexual orientation OCD and relationship OCD! Know that OCD is going to want you to be sure one way or the other. The true treatment and recovery comes when you are able to not know 100%, when you don't need to answer the OCDs questions, and you stop responding to the OCD questions/thoughts as though they are dangerous. Once you stop responding behaviorally or mentally as though they are dangerous, your brain will stop trying to protect you from them (eg getting anxious/sending anxiety signals).
Incognito Incognito
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- 3y
But this did happen to me though and I know you feel
BradOCDBradOCD
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- 3y
I feel like I’ve just given up on being the old me. And as the anxiety had gone down it feels like the intrusive thoughts aren’t that bad anymore. I can’t even tell if I want them to be true or not anymore. I was so sure I didn’t and now I don’t.
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Anonymous123
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- 24w
Can anyone tell me if this is normwl
Hi so I've been having a recent theme of soocd hocd. At the start I was all panicked and couldn't leave my house. Now all my emotions feel like they have turned off. It feels real now like I'm just in denial. It's bringing up memories from the past of shows I've watched or people I was friends with to try and prove the point or people I thought were pretty. It's saying you've only realised now cause you are comfortable as I had a difficult childhood. I feel no attraction towards men and can't remember if I ever have now even though I know I did. It's saying its all fake. I really am. Starting to believe it's real and I just feel depressed now. Am I going to have to leave my boyfriend who I planned my life with. It feels like life is going by and I'm stuck. I have no energy at all.
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mattis!
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- 17w
Feels so real
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..
anonymous1348
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- 16w
hocd
I don’t know what to do anymore, this started nearly a year ago and caused so much stress and panic attacks over the thought of loosing my boyfriend. Now it just feels real and that he always liked girls and suppressed it (but like the boys i always liked in the past were real feelings they had to be and with my boyfriend i love him) but i haven’t got much anxiety now feels like i want the thoughts and that they don’t bother me even tho they used to, this seems to happen every time i get a lil better, idk just feels so true and that’s what i acc want with no stress, just a lil scared.
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