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I need help please or i would die
Is there anyone who is struggling with sexual orientation ocd quickly reply and help me ?
Is there anyone who is struggling with sexual orientation ocd quickly reply and help me ?
Yes
I have severe ocd from past almost a year and it is still undiagnosed but when i got extremely anxious and started questioning my relegion and all that i came across philosophies and what not i was extremely exhausted to the point i thought are these feelings even real will i feel sad if something happens to.my family member and i got scared i started searching online youtube videos and i came to know that these were the symptoms of ocd as i had magical thinking ocd and health ocd before in my childhood as well but i didt know that it was ocd. In short my ocd changes themes deliberately i guess before this sexual orientation ocd i was dealing with severe seeveree existential ocd where i my ocd wanted to make me belive i was trap or i was in a stimulation once i stop giving a shit about it i thought i was free but my ocd latched itself onto my sexuality . Yesterday i was travelling and.i was feeling anxious as well and how i cop with my anxitey is i think about romantic stuff im into so i was thinking about it and it wasnt helping me as much so alot of doubts started to come in my mind like what if im not attracted to anybody like to no one then whats my purpose what am i even doing here in this world and then it started i started having doubts that what if i am attracted to female which i am not i mean i never felt any romantic or emotional relation to any woman and that thought went away and new came and it said im not attracted to anybody im just alone and i was distressed and now the second thought is repeating again and again and now brain is giving me evidences from my past experiences like one time i watched female porn and it says i am attracted to them (even tho my brain also used to give me sexual fantisies about animals and older men ) but my brian just wont understand i m extremely stressed to the point i am exhausted what should i do? .
I also have so-ocd and it's like this and it's torture (I don't know what to say but I guess I'm commenting to let you know you're not alone)
@Ms.shelovesfrogs Yeah im not alone but im scared
@Ms.shelovesfrogs Does your mind gives you proofs and evidences like that !
@feema Heck yes it does 😭 today morning I decided to stop feeding/fueling my compulsions and my mind is currently doing tricks and my anxiety level is like 📈
@Ms.shelovesfrogs What kind of evidences
@feema Mine were i used to watch female porn when i was a teenager
@feema But i also used to have sexual thoughts about animal and older men what does that all mean
@feema Mine is basically making any neutral situation that happened and making it seem like a proof.
@Ms.shelovesfrogs Like what can you please share
@Ms.shelovesfrogs It's annoying because I've never been sexually attracted to girls, I'm still not sexually attracted to them but my brain keeps on with the intrusive thoughts and compulsions ..it literally messing with me and making me think physical attraction is sexual attraction but it's not and I'm not in denial, I just don't desire girls but my brain won't let me rest
Almost as if my brain is being hypervigilant around them looking for signs
I im feeling scared asf my anxitey is at its peak and im shivering
Sorry about that(experienced this about two hours ago)
Hello everyone, forgive my bad English since it is not my native language, I have been suffering from OCD for 6 years now. It started with being afraid of harming my loved ones and soon it escalated. All of this leads us here towards sexual obsessions. I was abused many times when I was a child. I don't know if that had any impact on my sexual issues. so everything lead up to a intrusive tought of what would happend if i touch myself with a picture of your parents" and I ended up paying attention to the intrusive tought and i ended up doing what my intrusive tought told me so i said to me "OCD would make me touch myself for everything i loved so what, i would do it before the anxiety attacks" and I end up in a spiral of having touched myself by several photos of my family members, friends and even my own therapist all wanting to prevent future compulsions and anxiety now I only think about taking my life, I never wanted that to happen I am not a monster who has sexual desire towards my loved ones I fell under my own intrusive thought and the only thing I think about now is taking my life life for what I've done
I need too know that I'm not insane, really. I am 16 and for the past two weeks, this has been completely ruining my health and happiness. I only recently came out as a lesbian like 3 months ago after a lot of confusion about my attraction since I used to think I liked men. At first, I felt so sure that I liked women, but lately, I've been having these unwanted thoughts about the possibility of liking men. I never used to feel this way, but now, every time I look at a man, my brain obsessively fixates on it. It forces me to imagine kissing him, loving him, things I don’t want, and then tries to convince me that I do. It’s painful. The thought of this fills me with fear and anxiety, leading to panic attacks and breakdowns. I don’t want these thoughts. I hate them with every fiber of my being, but I’m terrified that one day I’ll act on them and somehow like it. I used to think I liked men, but back then, I was in a very unhealthy space in a time of escapism and something deeply parasocial. I’ve only ever liked the attention and validation a man could give me, but these experiences are somehow treated as further proof that I’m "bisexual." I’ve never been in a real relationship with anyone, which makes my brain constantly challenge me—telling me, “You don’t even know what love feels like.” It won’t shut up. It keeps obsessively trying to make me prove that I’m a lesbian, testing my reactions and questioning my certainty. Is this normal?
As a lesbian with SO-OCD, I feel so helpless. It's truly exhausting because no one I know understands what I'm going through. The first response is always, "You're just confused" or "You don't have to know yet." But that's not the issue, I do know. I just never see any lesbians with SO-OCD so I feel so invalidated. These thoughts flood my brain constantly, forcing me to analyze my reactions to every man I see. I feel trapped in an endless cycle of "testing" myself, trying to prove that I don't like them. But my brain fights back, telling me I do want to love a man, making it feel real even though don't want it. It's terrifying. At this point, it's hard to even hold onto my identity as a lesbian because I'm so overwhelmed. I don't know if this is what real attraction is supposed to feel like, and that fear eats away at me. The truth is, when I think about being with a man, all I feel is disgust and fear-but my brain twists that into doubt. I hate it. I'm at the point where I'm scared I'm going to have to accept something I don't want because I don't know if this will ever go away. I miss who I was before all this.
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