Sexual obssns OCD: Symptoms clu havg unwanted sexual thoughts about children, animals, ad thgs, the fear of beg gay.
Contents:
- 'HOMOSEXUAL OCD': STRAIGHT MEN WHO SPECT THEY ARE GAY
- INTSIVE THOUGHTS ABOUT BEG GAY
- FEELG GUILTY ABOUT "GAY THOUGHTS"
- HOW DO I KNOW I’M NOT REALLY GAY/STRAIGHT?
- AM I GAY IF I HAVE SAME SEX FANTASI?
- HELP:I AM NOT GAY BUT THE THOUGHTS WONT GO AWAY.................
- YOU’RE NOT GAY: HOMOSEXUALY ANXIETY OCD
'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. 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.
INTSIVE THOUGHTS ABOUT BEG GAY
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.
FEELG GUILTY ABOUT "GAY THOUGHTS"
"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.
HOW DO I KNOW I’M NOT REALLY GAY/STRAIGHT?
"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. I have been aroed by bi porn before and sometim gay porn but that was when I was 12 or 13 so anythg aroed me and I didn't put much thought to . “HOCD”, short for “Homosexual OCD”, is the term ed for a theme of Obssive Compulsive Disorr which the sufferer has obssns—unwanted tsive thoughts—surroundg their sexual orientatn.
AM I GAY IF I HAVE SAME SEX FANTASI?
I will be g the term “HOCD” throughout this article to discs obssns of those who intify as heterosexual and have relentls doubts about whether or not they are gay. A more reprentative way to scribe the obssns is “Sexual Orientatn OCD” bee OCD n latch onto anyone’s sexualy, whether that be someone who intifi as gay or queer or asexual.
Furthermore, as sexual obssns of OCD n be about perverse ntent (fear that one is a pedophile or unwanted thoughts about ct), the term “Homosexual OCD” impli that homosexualy is perverse.
HELP:I AM NOT GAY BUT THE THOUGHTS WONT GO AWAY.................
The way many clients scribe is that they had a good sense of their heterosexual orientatn and then randomly had an tsive thought such as “what if you’re gay? HOCD is not to be misnsted wh nial or sexual reprsn, as those who are reprsg their te sexualy know that they are attracted to the same sex but ph away, often due to shame that om livg a heteronormative and homophobic world. It is important to weed out what is what bee addn to hurtg the LGBTQIA+ muny, ternalized homophobia may be keepg those wh HOCD further stuck.
YOU’RE NOT GAY: HOMOSEXUALY ANXIETY OCD
It is equally important to acknowledge homophobia that is prent among some OCD sufferers bee nyg the existence of homophobia perpetuat s existence.