Assalam wa Alaikom, I am a 21 year old Male Mlim and ever sce I was 11 I have been havg gay thoughts. The reason I got the gay thoughts ...
Contents:
- HOW DO I KNOW I’M NOT REALLY GAY/STRAIGHT?
- HOCD; GAY OR STRAIGHT OR OCD?
- INTSIVE THOUGHTS ABOUT BEG GAY
- AM I GAY IF I HAVE SAME SEX FANTASI?
HOW DO I KNOW I’M NOT REALLY GAY/STRAIGHT?
Homosexual OCD (HOCD) volv obssns related to one's sexual orientatn. Straight people wh HOCD fear they may bee gay or are secretly gay. * i keep having gay thoughts *
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. 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 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.
HOCD; GAY OR STRAIGHT OR OCD?
"Brodsky argu that today's open acceptance of homosexualy and gay liftyl n bld therapists to this kd of anxiety disorr straight men. 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. ""A person wh OCD who has is havg tsive thoughts about whether or not he is gay, is not gay, the sense that he has not rporated a homosexual orientatn any mimally affirmg way to his inty, " said Drcher.
"Also, if he is not actually attracted to people of the same sex, do not masturbate to fantasi of people of the same sex, is not really aroed by same sex pornography, then is hard to make the se that he has a homosexual orientatn. Another was heterosexual and feared he had agreed wh Brodsky that some therapists may miss an OCD diagnosis, but "the most likely e of that is not that they are too gay-affirmg but that they lack trag regnizg the symptoms of OCD. Brodsky said that a gay person has "pleasant associatn" wh same-sex attractn and a person wh OCD do not.
INTSIVE THOUGHTS ABOUT BEG GAY
"Repeatedly, anxly, reviewg past suatns, ttg themselv, askg for reassurance, pulsively rearchg the Inter for gay tts, ttg themselv wh gay porn or gay people.
"A iend might say somethg and they thk, 'Gee, I uld be gay or I am dog somethg a gay person would do.
AM I GAY IF I HAVE SAME SEX FANTASI?
"As for treatment, Brodsky said he would help a patient who was tly gay validate their feelgs and atta self-acceptance, "achievg lm and peace of md.
If you are qutng your sexualy, how do you know the difference between havg HOCD and actually beg gay?