- Username
- Saraa
- Date posted
- 3y ago
I’m sorry your having a rough time, But life is worth living! You’ll get through it and it may be tough but I’m sure there are many ways you can still have intimacy. Hang in there ! There’s always hope ❤️
Hey, it's okay to feel upset about that - it must have been a distressing realization, and if you want to feel sad for a while, that is completely alright. Jealously/envy is okay and normal, too. It's alright to feel the way you're feeling, but try not to lose hope - your life is still very much worth living. There are ways to experience intimacy that don't involve sex directly, and even those ways that do aren't necessarily closed off to you. There are treatments for chronic pain, and the doctors mentioned that the discomfort could become less with time. Perhaps it is a bit like OCD...different of course, but a bit similar...in the sense that it may never vanish completely, but with time and treatment, it could fade to a point where it is manageable and doesn't interfere with your decisions. Especially given all the advancements happening in medicine right now, treatments for pain could also become much more advanced and sophisticated with time; we could see some remarkable developments even just in the near future. No matter what happens, though, I am sure that there is a way forward. Don't give up on life.
Thank you. I hate the fact that out there some people can choose how to live their life; and some others can only adapt; and stay in pain. There are a lot of ways in intimacy yes, but I will never feel the right pleasure without suffer... i just want to be normal sometimes
I’m so sorry you are going through this. Although I can’t say I have the same physical problem, I can totally relate to the feeling of frustration and disappointment knowing that I may never have the amount of sex and intimacy that I desire, mainly due to the fact that my current partner doesn’t want it as much as I do, and have always struggled to find someone who can understand and fulfill my sexual needs. I too have always wanted a life full of intimacy as you say. I start to envy other couples who have a great sex life. So I can totally understand your feelings of envy and being so frustrated at not being able to experience that.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder has made me so drained thinking of all the thing I think I did and all the things I think I want to do that I am SEVERELY depressed. I don’t have a life anymore. I work only part time and just sit in bed all day crying or feeling so empty I can’t cry. I have ZERO motivation to do anything. Even if I’m hungry I can’t get out of bed. This eventually results in me going to work at 5pm having eaten NOTHING all day. I am in constant pain due to health issues, type 1 diabetes and PKD. I want to be a novelist and I can feel that slipping away as I haven’t written in over 2 years. My memory is getting worse due to sugar fluctuations and my depression. And my health is never going to get better. Sometimes idk the point of being alive if I’m just going to lay in bed every day of my life and cry.
I’m going to talk about something that makes me deeply ashamed and something I hear very little about. Maybe something that scares some people. I’ve suffered with Sexual OCD for about ten years and really the main issue for me was how much it had an effect on my sex drive, I feel like I’ve been neutered. Over time, I feel I’ve more or less overcome the thoughts but I still feel incapable with sex. This has killed the fun out my twenties. I don’t know if it’s the trauma, the drugs, which I avoided with this ocd theme I’ve had because of the side effects warning but took before when I was a teenager suffering from some whacked out religious worries. I’m now more worried than ever I’m going to die alone and unloved. I lost a girlfriend really over this. And on top of that I don’t hear many guys talk about this and I can understand why, but I just feel as if I’m really lonely with a condition no one can treat.
I’ve been living with this horrible illness officially for 11 of the 20 years I’ve been alive and I feel like the older I get the worse it gets and it’s killing me. I just want some relief I’m in so much pain. This illness has hurt myself, my fiends, my family, and has even caused the man I love who also has ocd to break up with me. I feel like I’m a lost cause and I hate it. I don’t know who I can trust anymore and I just feel so broken. HELP
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