HOCD; am I gay or straight?

i have unwanted gay thoughts

Sexual obssns OCD: Symptoms clu havg unwanted sexual thoughts about children, animals, ad thgs, the fear of beg gay.

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YOU ARE NOT GAY, 'S HOCD, FOR ALL YOU SUFFERERS.

31 year old male and recently i've been stgglg wh gay/bi thoughts please keep me prayer feels like I don't have anyone to really talk to about this * i have unwanted gay thoughts *

After i purchased thoughts me up, you are gay, e out of the closet also gay imag and such which i'm also part , the thoughts said to me you should buy aga to remove the gayns. Not buyg aga( y i also got ocd sometim when buyg thgs)After that was hard, my thoughts had basilly epic battl between the gay crap my head which i know a't real and the real thgs that i know i'm straight.

Today hocd started aga, thkg about i didn't repurchase and i mt be gay now bee i purchased onle had gay thoughts and imag after, so i mt be gay now.

'HOMOSEXUAL OCD': STRAIGHT MEN WHO SPECT THEY ARE GAY

Hi guy....20 year old male sufferg wh hocd(I hope) anyone else have unwanted urg to acted out a homosexual grabbg genals and etc.I've never had a sgle gay thought befor... * i have unwanted gay thoughts *

I don't really re about how people would treat me even as a straight person if you don't like me there's the door, but even if i really was gay i wouldn't give 2 shs about what people thk aswell. Another thg is that when your thoughts sayg your gay and you try to fight off bee ofurse you don't feel right wh , and you say NO IM HETERO, and also keep checkg and repeatg thought about the straight thgs you did the past etc, that's somethg you shouldn't do anymore, nfirmg that you're straight. That means you are not gay, 's jt Hocd tryg to ntrol you domate you, make you secure while there's nothg to be aaid of, bee a't real.

You wouldn't be aaid of beg gay self, but be more aaid of the fact how people for stance iends, fay, people at work would treat you the future. You wouldn't have battl your head which your thoughts sayg you're gay and you keep nfirmg you are not when lookg at your straight past.

Really gay people love those thoughts and accept them bee that's who they really are, they don't fear beg gay, they aren't anx, fearg or disgted. As a straight person you want to fight off, you're digted, anx, feared and keep nfirmg yourself and lookg for ways to show yourself you aren't gay.

HOCD: IF YOU FEAR BEG GAY OR BI, YOU'RE NOT!

Simply by the fact that you would have felt emotnally and physilly attracted to men and fd perfectly normal and loved havg gay thoughts, imag and that you have read the above, uld be like me that you still have unwanted 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.

HOCD; AM I GAY OR STRAIGHT?

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.

STGGLG WH GAY THOUGHTS

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. "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.

"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. "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. But there is a the DIFFERENCE between HOCD and people who are TRULY GAY or BI:Contrary to people who suffer om HOCD, "tly gay or bi" people aren't AFRAID of , don't have INTRUSIVE THOUGHTS about , agonize over for hours and hours, get prsed about , or feel like "they're losg their md".

YOU’RE NOT GAY: HOMOSEXUALY ANXIETY OCD

This is, people who are TRULY GAY or BI are more worried about OTHER PEOPLE'S REACTIONS to , e they LIKE , WANT , and FANTASIZE about , and fear beg REJECTED or CRITICIZED by others.

It is part of "who they are" and somethg they realizatn was nfirmed when readg people's posts about beg gay or bisexual.

I qutned for awhile before I stopped nyg , and do sometim feel like torture before you accept that beg gay is alright.

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