Ok...I really don't get this one. Everyone's been askg me if I'm gay lately and I really don't unrstand why. I hang out wh girls mostly, sce...
Contents:
- 'HOMOSEXUAL OCD': STRAIGHT MEN WHO SPECT THEY ARE GAY
- WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
- WHY DO EVERYONE THK I'M GAY?!
- AM I GAY? QUIZ – 100% RELIABLE TT
- WHAT IF YOU ONLY THOUGHT YOU WERE GAY?
- HOW DO I KNOW IF I AM GAY? SIGNS YOU ARE GAY
'HOMOSEXUAL OCD': STRAIGHT MEN WHO SPECT THEY ARE GAY
Why are people gay? Are they gay by choice or is beg gay geic? Are they born gay? Learn about the and reasons for beg gay. * guy thought i was 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 he termed his patient had OCD associated wh homosexualy.
WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
* guy thought i was gay *
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 have many gay clients and phobia is my bs, " he said. Even though they know that they are 100 percent straight, not gay, they send gus .
Ocsnally, a person learns they are gay.
WHY DO EVERYONE THK I'M GAY?!
Men beg attracted to another man emotnally, physilly, and mentally are known as gays. Fd out if you're gay wh our quiz. * guy thought i was gay *
"I say, oh, that's tertg, how do you feel about beg gay and what n we do about that? "Brodsky argu that today's open acceptance of homosexualy and gay liftyl n bld therapists to this kd of anxiety disorr straight men. 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.
AM I GAY? QUIZ – 100% RELIABLE TT
Democratic printial ndidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a history of repeatedly sharg unfound nspiraci that man-ma chemils the environment uld be makg children gay or transgenr and g the femizatn of boys and masculizatn of girls. * guy thought i was gay *
Brodsky said that a gay person has "pleasant associatn" wh same-sex attractn and a person wh OCD do not. "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. A gay person don't go through this battle.
""Someone who is gay, but the closet, is not spendg time rearchg and ttg themselv, " he said.
Gay people are not lookg for any kd of external validatn. "Havg an obssn about beg gay is no different om any other mental obssn, said Brodsky. "A iend might say somethg and they thk, 'Gee, I uld be gay or I am dog somethg a gay person would do.
WHAT IF YOU ONLY THOUGHT YOU WERE GAY?
"Certaly that do not make them gay, " he said. "The obssive thoughts are not rooted homophobia, acrdg to Brodsky. "Maybe they were abed as a kid or heard 'gay' as a tnt.
"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. Everyone I meet thks I’m gay.
So ’s been a mon trend ever sce I was highschool that everyone always asks one way or another “is he gay” or “ are you gay” and ’s gettg irratg.
HOW DO I KNOW IF I AM GAY? SIGNS YOU ARE GAY
Estimat as to the number of gay people the populatn range om 1--20 to 1--10, so why are some people gay? Are they gay by choice or is beg gay geic?
The simplt answer is to look at the fn of the word "gay.