HOCD; am I gay or straight?

Contents:

• INTSIVE THOUGHTS ABOUT BEG GAY
• FEELG GUILTY ABOUT "GAY THOUGHTS"
• HOW DO I KNOW I’M NOT REALLY GAY/STRAIGHT?
• YOU ARE NOT GAY, 'S HOCD, FOR ALL YOU SUFFERERS.
• HOCD; AM I GAY OR STRAIGHT?
• AM I GAY IF I HAVE SAME SEX FANTASI?
• 'HOMOSEXUAL OCD': STRAIGHT MEN WHO SPECT THEY ARE GAY
• HELP:I AM NOT GAY BUT THE THOUGHTS WONT GO AWAY.................
• AM I GAY, STRAIGHT, LBIAN, BISEXUAL OR LGBTQ+?

INTSIVE THOUGHTS ABOUT BEG GAY

” Some people’s doubts are further plited by havg such experienc as hearg other people talkg or lookg their directn and thkg that the people mt be analyzg their behavr or appearance and talkg about them – discsg how they mt be gay (or straight).

I have sometim wonred if those who experience the most distrs om such thoughts as the do so bee they were raised wh more strongly homophobic or anti-gay attus to beg wh, or if is simply bee one’s sexualy n be such a basic doubt. The flip si of this is when they look at thgs havg to do wh sex of an oppose orientatn and then feel aroed some way, which they then nclu to mean that they liked , which means that they are gay (or straight).

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. 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.

FEELG GUILTY ABOUT "GAY THOUGHTS"

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. If you have thoughts that make you doubt your long-standg sexual preferenc, and the thoughts go agast your te sexual inty, and you have no genue sire to start a same-sex relatnship, You uld have a form of Obssive-pulsive disorr lled Homosexual you have arrived on this page, you have no doubt been googlg your thoughts as somewhere ep down, you know that your sexualy has not changed, but you do not unrstand the thoughts your is not an article about g out.

The obssn n be the thought what if I am gay and then feelg pelled (the pulsn) to check this out by lookg at members of the same sex to tt if there is an attractn example, a straight person wh HOCD may fear beg secretly gay, while a gay person wh HOCD may fear beg you are a heterosexual male but sudnly start to qutn that maybe you are gay or a heterosexual female and beg to doubt your long-standg attractn to men, this article will help you make sense of what is gog on.

Homosexual Obssive Compulsive Disorr (HOCD) is a type of OCD where the person experienc obssive thoughts and doubts about their prevly taken-for-granted sexual n often clu excsive checkg for signs of homosexualy, qutng recent teractns wh others and playg out potential the ndn first entered the public doma, was labelled HOCD and, acrdg to Bhatia & Kr, 2015 (1), was marked by excsive fear of beg or beg homosexual.

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

People wh HOCD often thk they are gay or bisexual bee of obssive thoughts and self-doubt, not bee they feel attracted to people of the same shared thoughts and behavurs associated wh HOCD are difficulty settg asi thoughts about your sexual orientatn, avoidance of people of the same sex, preoccupatn wh one’s level of aroal toward eher sex and avoidg people who might make you qutn your thoughts n be credibly distrsg and lead to a great al of anxiety and nfn. Doubt And The Denial QutnHomosexual OCD And Sexual AroalTreatments for HOCDSelf-help urse for HOCDSigns of HOCDWarng signs may clu:creased attractn to people of the oppose sex, creased attractn to those of your own sex, preoccupatn wh the level of aroal you feel towards people of eher genr, nstg any posive reactn as evince that one is gay or straight, and watchg both gay and straight n be challengg to diagnose, so you mt know the warng signs if you thk you might have do I know if I have HOCD?

” Dog this n distance you om the thoughts, see them as HOCD symptoms, and not prove that you are gay or do the pulsns to make yourself feel better or try to ‘check out if you are gay’ COMPULSIONSYou are gog over prev sexual enunters wh members of the oppose sex to reassure yourself that you are not might try to image beg wh a member of the same sex to check out your theory that you might be might have remembered an event om your childhood that you now see as evince that you are gay. Watchg same-sex porn to see if you get aroedWatchg straight porn to see if you get aroedGog to gay bars to see if you are attracted to anyoneExcsive Checkg: This volv repeatedly checkg one’s body for any signs related to homosexualy.

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

AvoidancePeople who have HOCD may avoid what they believe may trigger their uld be certa songs or artists that you associate wh beg gay, typ of TV programs, magaz or books that you might associate more wh same-sex might avoid gog out or mixg wh a same-sex uple or showg support for same-sex upl. Avoidg men if your HOCD is ncerned wh beg gayAvoidg women if your HOCD is related to the feelg that you are lbianAvoidg takg part thgs that you believe are too manly or too femaleAvoidg changg rooms where you will see members of your sex drs and undrsNot beg able to make eye ntact wh members of the same sex or avoid hangg out wh themAny topics of nversatn relatg to sexual preferenceMovi where same-sex actors may kiss or be romantilly volvedFdg Members Of The Same-Sex AttractiveHuman begs fd many thgs attractive. I shall ntradict myself now; thoughts only have the meang you give to them, so be reful about any flty beliefs you may In The SpotlightYou might have noticed that your life before HOCD, you never qutned your sexual preference, took heterosexual relatnships for granted, and never noticed who was gay and who was you have a radar, or a spotlight as I like to thk of , where everythg you do, and everywhere you go, you seem to notice thgs that make you qutn your sexual preference.

If you were meetg iends for a ffee, you would have filtered out the people you walked past, how you were walkg and foced on gettg to the ffee shop and filtered out the background noise to enjoy your iend’s you have a spotlight; you n selectively attend to everythg you associate wh beg gay. It uld be challengg to pay attentn and jt enjoy beg wh your iends, as you might wonr if they thk you are of this do not mean that you are gay; means that you are shg a spotlight on thgs that you associate wh beg gay, which brgs me to an important pot; what’s the difference between HOCD and beg gay? Difference Between HOCD And Beg GayIt’s straightforward, HOCD is Obssive-Compulsive Disorr, and beg gay is enjoyg and wantg romantic relatnships wh members of the same you have HOCD, your thoughts are ncerned about beg gay–not your actns.

Further ReadgCentreforanxietydisorrsNCBITreatments for HOCDIf you are stgglg wh HOCD, there are thgs you n do on your own that, ’s sential to unrstand that HOCD nnot change your sexual orientatn- is only a doubt, a symptom of the ndn to know if you are gay or, try not to give the thoughts too much power by refg to engage wh them. Scientists are not yet sure exactly what someone to be lbian, gay, bisexual, or straight, but recent rearch shows that there are blogil factors place before birth that fluence people’s sexual orientatn. 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; AM I GAY OR 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.

""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. In addn, about 60 per cent of the pre-adolcent boys engage homosexual activi, and there is an addnal group of adult mal who avoid overt ntacts but who are que aware of their potentiali for reactg to other social signifince of the homosexual is nsirably emphasized by the fact that both Jewish and Christian church have nsired this aspect of human sexualy to be abnormal and immoral.

AM I GAY IF I HAVE SAME SEX FANTASI?

Is, therefore, peculiarly difficult to secure factual data ncerng the nature and the extent of the homosexual Wtern European or Amerin cultur, and even more difficult to fd strictly objective prentatns of such data as are available...

The extent of any type of human behavr is aquately known, is difficult to asss s signifince, eher to the dividuals who are volved or to society as a whole; and until the extent of the homosexual is known, is practilly impossible to unrstand s blogic or social origs. Any rtrictn of the term homosexualy to dividuals who are exclively so mands, logilly, that the term heterosexual be applied only to those dividuals who are exclively heterosexual; and this mak no allowance for the nearly half of the populatn which has had sexual ntacts wh, or reacted psychilly to, dividuals of their own as well as of the oppose sex. Actually, of urse, one mt learn to regnize every batn of heterosexualy and homosexualy the histori of var would enurage clearer thkg on the matters if persons were not characterized as heterosexual or homosexual, but as dividuals who have had certa amounts of heterosexual experience and certa amounts of homosexual experience.

INCIDENCE DATA IN PRESENT STUDYThe statistics given throughout this volume on the cince of homosexual activy, and the statistics to be given the prent sectn of this chapter, are based on those persons who have had physil ntacts wh other mal, and who were brought to asm as a rult of such ntacts. By any strict fn such ntacts are homosexual, irrpective of the extent of the psychic stimulatn volved, of the techniqu employed, or of the relative importance of the homosexual and the heterosexual the history of such an dividual. The terms (of physil ntact to the pot of asm), the data the prent study dite that at least 37 percent of the male populatn has some homosexual experience between the begng of adolcence and old age.

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

Whether the histori were taken one large cy or another, whether they were taken large ci, small towns, or ral areas, whether they me om one llege or om another, a church school or a state universy or some private stutn, whether they me om one part of the untry or om another, the cince data on the homosexual have been more or ls the same...

HETEROSEXUAL-HOMOSEXUAL BALANCEConcerng patterns of sexual behavr, a great al of the thkg done by scientists and laymen alike stems om the assumptn that there are persons who are “heterosexual” and persons who are “homosexual, ” that the two typ reprent anth the sexual world, and that there is only an signifint class of “bisexuals” who occupy an termediate posn between the other groups. It is further implied that om the time of birth one is fated to be one thg or the other, and that there is ltle chance for one to change his pattern the urse of a is que generally believed that one’s preference for a sexual partner of one or the other sex is rrelated wh var physil and mental quali, and wh the total personaly which mak a homosexual male or female physilly, psychilly, and perhaps spirually distct om a heterosexual dividual.

HELP:I AM NOT GAY BUT THE THOUGHTS WONT GO AWAY.................

Even psychiatrists discs “the homosexual personaly” and many of them believe that preferenc for sexual partners of a particular sex are merely sendary maniftatns of somethg that li much eper the totaly of that tangible which they ll the personaly...

SCIENTIFIC AND SOCIAL IMPLICATIONSIn view of the data which we now have on the cince and equency of the homosexual, and particular on s -existence wh the heterosexual the liv of a nsirable portn of the male populatn, is difficult to mata the view that psychosexual reactns between dividuals of the same sex are rare and therefore abnormal or unnatural, or that they nstute wh themselv evince of nros or even psychos... Very general occurrence of the homosexual ancient Greece, and s wi occurrence today some cultur which such activy is not as taboo as is our own, suggts that the pacy of an dividual to rpond erotilly to any sort of stimul, whether is provid by another person of the same or of the oppose sex, is basic the speci. That patterns of heterosexualy and patterns of homosexualy reprent learned behavr which pends, to a nsirable gree, upon the mor of the particular culture which the dividual is raised, is a possibily that mt be thoroughly nsired before there n be any acceptance of the ia that homosexualy is hered, and that the pattern for each dividual is so nately fixed that no modifitn of may be expected wh his lifetime...

When is regnized that the particular boy who is disvered homosexual relatns school, the bs man who is havg such activy, and the stutnal mate wh a homosexual rerd, are volved behavr that is not fundamentally different om that had by a fourth to a third of all of the rt of the populatn, the activy of the sgle dividual acquir a somewhat different social signifince... Difficulty of the suatn be still more apparent when is realized that the generalizatns ncerng the cince and equency of homosexual activy apply varyg gre to every social level, to persons every occupatn, and of every age the muny. The police force and urt officials who attempt to enforce the sex laws, the clergymen and bs men and every other group the cy which perdilly lls for enforcement of the laws—particularly the laws agast sexual “perversn”—have given a rerd of cinc and equenci the homosexual which are as high as those of the rt of the social level to which they belong.

AM I GAY, STRAIGHT, LBIAN, BISEXUAL OR LGBTQ+?

People who are homosexual are romantilly and physilly attracted to people of the same sex: Femal who are attracted to other femal are lbian; mal who are attracted to other mal are often known as gay. Whether gay, straight, bisexual, or jt not sure, almost everyone has qutns about physilly maturg and about sexual health — like if certa body chang are "normal, " what's the right way to behave, or how to avoid sexually transmted fectns (STIs). We n be attracted to people irrpective of their genr, do not mean we need to label ourselv as gay, straight, pansexual - unls we choose to do so, ’ explas Marianne Oak, lead unsellor for and a specialist sexualy, genr and diverse relatnships.

A 2017 review of 52 studi, for stance, found that when pared wh heterosexual people, bisexual people had higher rat of prsn and anxiety, and higher or equivalent rat of those ndns when pared wh those who intified as gay. People unr 25, nclud somethg siar among Ameri’s youth: Bisexual high school stunts reported more feelgs of sadns and hopelsns and more thoughts of suici than those who intified as heterosexual or ’s also some evince that bisexual people fared worse than their heterosexual and gay unterparts durg the panmic, cludg greater strs, lonels, psychologil distrs and fatigue; and poorer mental and physil health than those intifyg as straight or dispary is often a rult of the prejudic bisexual people face, Dr. The study found that much of this discrimatn often om gay and lbian people, followed by fay members and straight people; and n directly impact bisexual people’s mental health, cludg ntributg to prsn, strs and exacerbated or triggered anxiety (cludg panic attacks and post-trmatic strs disorr).

She said she was never ashamed of her sexualy until her 20s, when both gay and straight iends and fay started tellg her they didn’t believe she was really attracted to women, and that she was gog through a phase. there is much work to be done regardg acceptg LGBT people as well as challengg homophobia, the fact that people are able to regnize their sexual orientatn at a younger age than the past monstrat.