Hello <3 I’m back ! It’s been a couple of months- but in those months, I’ve recovered completely from sexual orientation OCD. Since my fifteenth birthday is tomorrow, I reflected and realized I want to come back and help others- so I’ll share my success story, and things I learned in another post- feel free to ask any questions :)

So proud of you! Still on my journey, slowly getting there. Would love to hear what worked for you!

Thank you! I have full confidence you’ll recovery stronger than ever! What worked for me is my mindset during recovery- I went in expecting to become a different person. Maybe my label would change. Maybe my mindset would. I didn’t go into it trying to be “The same Ingrid without OCD”, I went into it being “An Ingrid without OCD”- because me without OCD has so many new possibilities :)

@ingrid <3 That's wonderful! So happy for you. My husband has been supporting me through it and I'm doing my best! Some days are great, some days like to day are difficult. In terms of ERP, you find any techniques most helpful for you?

@ChristineKJ I’m so glad your husband has been supporting you, that’s really important ! I won’t lie, at the final stage of my recovery, I didn’t do ERP. I just had a mindset of loving myself and who I am, and it pushed me over- but when I was doing heavy ERP, I lived in the mindset of being bisexual, or straight. I thought to myself how I would if I “accepted myself”, as I said during ERP.

Wow it’s amazing that you recovered! Did you had to share all you symptoms to get help?