Contents:
- 'HOMOSEXUAL OCD': STRAIGHT MEN WHO SPECT THEY ARE GAY
- FEELG GUILTY ABOUT "GAY THOUGHTS"
- I LIKE GUYS BUT I DON’T WANT TO BE GAY. HOW DO I STOP BEG GAY?
- HOW DO I KNOW I’M NOT REALLY GAY/STRAIGHT?
'HOMOSEXUAL OCD': STRAIGHT MEN WHO SPECT THEY ARE GAY
24, 2014— -- Steven Brodsky, a psychologist who specializ obssive-pulsive disorr, says that at any one time he has a "handful" of clients who are straight and spect that they are gay.
FEELG GUILTY ABOUT "GAY THOUGHTS"
J., said he had one adult patient who was so crippled by obssive thoughts about beg gay that he was unable to live penntly and had to move back wh his parents to pe.
Brodsky said he termed his patient had OCD associated wh homosexualy. Brodsky said a prev therapist had misdiagnosed his patient as gay, and at the patient's requt, sent him off to reparative therapy, a ntroversial method that has not been proven to be effective and n be harmful. "I have many gay clients and phobia is my bs, " he said.
Even though they know that they are 100 percent straight, not gay, they send gus .
I LIKE GUYS BUT I DON’T WANT TO BE GAY. HOW DO I STOP BEG GAY?
Ocsnally, a person learns they are gay. "I say, oh, that's tertg, how do you feel about beg gay and what n we do about that? "Brodsky argu that today's open acceptance of homosexualy and gay liftyl n bld therapists to this kd of anxiety disorr straight men.
HOW DO I KNOW I’M NOT REALLY GAY/STRAIGHT?
Jack Drcher, a noted New York Cy psychiatrist who is nsired an expert gay and lbian mental health and treats patients for OCD, agreed that "beg worried that one might be gay is not the same thg as beg gay.