- Date posted
- Yesterday
my brain hates me
If anyone can respond it would help ! I had a spiral last night, randomly. Was looking thru my game library and noticed Lies of P. I think the protagonist is cute like timothee chalamet and never thought about age bc he’s a robot and assumed early 20s but I randomly thought what if he’s younger? And then I just got uncomfortable and disturbed, tried to distract myself on ig but just stumbled upon a post of the main actor in adolescence. The kid is objectively handsome and the fact I’m aware of that disturbs me. I should be able to glide past and be like yeah! Handsome kid :) and go on like normal people but I can’t. Can’t see a cute kid without my ocd trying to say I’m weird for noticing. And the scene where he asks his adult therapist if she likes/is attracted to him triggers me so bad. In my late teens, early twenties (I’m 25). I had a thing for age gap dramas where the woman was older bc I was so sick and annoyed of the usual men being older and I just have this massive guilt complex now. I used to make up stories in my head bc I was lonely and isolated bc of my mothers own paranoias and I thought of celebrities like fictional characters. When I was 17 I had an IT phase that lasted several months and while I wasn’t attracted or interested I made up a “storyline” of one of the actors being in his early 20s and in love with me etc it was short lived (like a week ) bc I didn’t care for it mostly and ended up feeling weird and uncomfortable about it myself. When I was 16 I thought this 14 year old kpop idol was cute and wrote a fanfic about him. None of these scenarios were sexual and I was a teenager myself, and my brain is blaming me now. Making me uncomfortable now. I burst into tears for an hr. I’m sick of living this way. I’m sick of being afraid of every little thing. It’s instinctive for some reason to my brain to automatically label someone as ugly/handsome/pretty and I wish it would stop bc when it isn’t rude it sets off my ocd. I’m attracted to men and women but have had only experience with men and crushes as well and my ocd focuses on why does my ocd only trigger around boys and tries to even twist that into a gotcha moment. Any advice or just understanding would be appreciated