n OCD make me thk I am gay | JACKIE LEA SOMMERS

Contents:

• YOU’RE NOT GAY: HOMOSEXUALY ANXIETY OCD
• TAG ARCHIV: N OCD MAKE ME THK I AM GAY
• 'HOMOSEXUAL OCD': STRAIGHT MEN WHO SPECT THEY ARE GAY
• DO YOU HAVE HOCD OR ARE YOU JT NYG THAT YOU'RE GAY OR BI?
• HOW DO I KNOW I’M NOT REALLY GAY/STRAIGHT?
• AM I GAY OR IS MY OCD?
• I'M GAY AND YOU'RE NOT: UNRSTANDG HOMOSEXUALY FEARS

YOU’RE NOT GAY: HOMOSEXUALY ANXIETY OCD

She was worried for her relative bee he told her that part of his OCD volved worryg that he was gay.

Until then, she'd never heard that matn about your own sexualy uld be an OCD symptom and felt like her relative was probably jt part of the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) muny. Although the most mon maniftatn is straight people fearg that they are gay, LGBT people wh sexual orientatn OCD n worry that they're straight.

Compulsively askg your signifint other or a loved one if he or she spects that you're gay or straight. For an LGBT person, unhapps about their inty ually om discrimatn or ternalized shame bee they've learned to see beg gay as ferr to beg straight Wh time and ( some s) unselg, many gay people live happy and fulfillg liv datg people who are their same genr. A person wh sexual orientatn OCD is fixated on whether or not they are LGBT, whereas gay people are attracted to and genuely want a relatnship wh someone of the same genr.

TAG ARCHIV: N OCD MAKE ME THK I AM GAY

3) Do you worry that you are NOT attracted to members of the oppose sex (if you're straight) and that 'that might mean' that you are gay? For example: A straight man thkg "If my legs are crossed, do my guy iends thk I’m gay? For Example: Worryg that if you n’t get aroed by a woman that might be evince that you are gay?

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

I am wrg for the benef of heterosexual folks who hope to e this article to unrstand their fears about beg gay (also known as gay OCD or HOCD). Searchg unr OCD and gay, I disvered the old BraPhysics discsn board and cid to post.

Only ten mut after I had started readg the most recent posts, however, I realized that somethg was wrong: The folks wh gay fears were clearly not gay. It took another five mut for me to figure out what HOCD was and why so many people had gay obssns. I would later learn that tly gay people may also get HOCD, but that they falsely fear that they are heterosexual.

HOCD is an illns, and who but a gay HOCD sufferer would fear beg straight, the thg society priz? Jt as HOCD obssg over beg straight = gay realy, HOCD obssg over beg gay = straight realy.

DO YOU HAVE HOCD OR ARE YOU JT NYG THAT YOU'RE GAY OR BI?

If I thought for a mute that even one of the straight HOCD sufferers on the board was gay, I would do the same for him or her. As of this wrg I have been bombard by threads, private msag, e-mail, and stant msag by straight folks terrified that they are gay (and a very small number of gay and bisexual folks terrified that they, too, are not their real sexual orientatn). Neverthels, is sufficiently wispread to warrant more specialists the field, more media exposure, and more unrstandg among therapists relativ, iends, and, pecially, gay people who give the wrong advice.

HOCD works the same way: Heterosexual sufferers feel that the gay thoughts are real even though, their hearts, they know that they are straight.

Before such treatment, HOCD (homosexualy anxiety ed by OCD) is all terror and rant.

HOW DO I KNOW I’M NOT REALLY GAY/STRAIGHT?

STRAIGHT MALE HOCD SUFFERER: I know that I am gay, but I have only ever gotten hard wh girls. GAY MALE IN THE CLOSET WITH NO HOCD: I know that I am gay, and I have only ever gotten hard wh guys.

I was tght that gay stuff was disgtg, but when I thk of beg held by a man I get butterfli my stomach. The only anxiety I feel is over what others thk of gays and how I thk I’ll be treated by straight people power if they fd out about me. I don’t feel any anxiety when I thk about how lucky gay guys who are out of the closet mt be, and I wish I uld be like them.

When I saw rants like the first one last November, I knew that I was not alg wh gay folks at all. 3) Do you worry that you are NOT attracted to members of the oppose sex (if you’re straight) and that ‘that might mean’ that you are gay? For example: A straight man thkg “If my legs are crossed, do my guy iends thk I’m gay?

AM I GAY OR IS MY OCD?

” There is the dismissal of as “jt a phase” for straight people or “nial” for gay people. ” Amongst gays and lbians, bisexuals have the hight rate of nsirg and/or attemptg suici. There were a uple of openly gay boys at my mid-wtern, relatively small-town school, but I didn’t know of anyone that loved everyone, and I didn’t know any girls that liked girls.

Dependg on the circumstance—I am not nouncg relign altogether—relign n add even another layer of nfn, shame, and/or ternalized homophobia.

I'M GAY AND YOU'RE NOT: UNRSTANDG HOMOSEXUALY FEARS

One thg that sr me bee seems different than what I read about HOCD is that people talk about beg aaid they uld be gay or uld turn gay, but n HOCD make you thk youre ACTUALLY gay? And I hate the ia of beg gay and have never done anythg gay wh anyone and, like I said, n relate to a lot of other symptoms of HOCD.

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.

"I say, oh, that's tertg, how do you feel about beg gay and what n we do about that?