HOCD; am I gay or straight?

Contents:

• DO YOU HAVE HOCD OR ARE YOU JT NYG THAT YOU'RE GAY OR BI?
• HOCD – GAY OR HOMOSEXUAL OCD AND REVERY
• HOCD; AM I GAY OR STRAIGHT?
• GAY OCD / HOCD TT

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

“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. 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. 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 – GAY OR HOMOSEXUAL OCD AND REVERY

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. The realy is that we live a very heteronormative world, which is reflected through mastream media showsg heterosexual relatnships, lack of diversy polics, relig groups that nounce homosexualy and claim—wh zero evince—that gay folks will go to hell, and laws that enable discrimatn agast the LGBTQIA+ muny. Probably the most mon qutn asked by those likely to be sufferg om homosexual obssive pulsive disorr (HOCD, also lled Sexual Orientatn OCD or Gay OCD) is "Am I gay?

HOCD; AM I GAY OR STRAIGHT?

The qutn is right at the heart of HOCD feelgs, sce this particular type of OCD foc on an obssn wh gay, lbian, or bisexual activy and the patient's uncertaty about his or her own sexualy. If you have been or have experienc om beg straight and you fear that you're gay, 's very likely that you're straight and the "gay feelg" is jt a symptom of your unrlyg OCD.

If you are experiencg HOCD, often lled Gay OCD and the thoughts … you are not gay and when you do TLM to rever om this and your other anxieti, EVERYTHING will make perfect sense.

ALL of the above and, ed, any other thoughts about beg attracted to the same sex as yourself or beg ‘gay’, or beg gay and havg the same anxieti about beg ‘straight’, are 100% NORMAL the prence of anxiety. HOCD has nothg to do wh sexualy – A person’s sexualy isn’t a choice, ’s a geic pret – what this means is that where you fall on the the long le between total heterosexualy and homosexualy isn’t a matter of nsc choice… ’s geic. If you are havg thoughts like “what if I am gay” or, if you are gay, “what if I’m straight”, the aren’t the same as the thoughts and feelgs homosexuals experience as they disver their sexualy.

GAY OCD / HOCD TT

…nothg about what you are experiencg is ‘real’… the fact that you are havg the anxiety related thoughts means that you are NOT gay… NOT that you might be! How do you know if those thoughts your head that you nnot tell anyone about mean that you really are gay or has somethg happened to your mental health? 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.