Is 'Homosexual OCD' - the fear of beg gay, spe beg straight - jt ternalised homophobia, or a ser psychologil disorr?
Contents:
- 'HOMOSEXUAL OCD': STRAIGHT MEN WHO SPECT THEY ARE GAY
- MEET THE STRAIGHT MEN WHO ARE TERRIFIED THEY ARE GAY
- HOW DO I KNOW I’M NOT REALLY GAY/STRAIGHT?
- FEELG GUILTY ABOUT "GAY THOUGHTS"
'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.
MEET THE STRAIGHT MEN WHO ARE TERRIFIED THEY ARE 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. "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?
The thoughts bee a signifint source of distrs, leadg a sufferer to believe that their bra chemistry has changed and/or that they may be transng om heterosexual orientatn (straight) to homosexual orientatn (gay).
Those experiencg HOCD are typilly very fearful of the homosexual-related thoughts, to the pot that they attempt to supprs them or do whatever they n to avoid thkg them.
FEELG GUILTY ABOUT "GAY THOUGHTS"
The OCD homosexual fears to s advantage, hijackg a person’s thought procs and strengtheng fear-based circury to promote the obssive-pulsive disorr feedback loop.