OCD Cured. You CAN Win The Battle!

what advice do you have to give for the situation where i cant finish off to straight fantasies while masturbating , much of my anxiety stems from this fact . I try to fap to homo stuff and get off quick while last year i could get off from straight stuff and couldnt do the same for gay stuffs

Is this HOCD taking effect on me ?

I would honestly say to stop masturbating. It’s not helping your anxiety. Obviously it’s gonna be harder to if you’re anxious. I’m straight and I’ve gotten off to gay stuff but I know I am straight. But I don’t tempt myself with any of that anymore. It’s not good for the brain anyways. Go have some straight interactions with real people and situations, stop judging your anxiety off of people having sex on a screen.

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losingit24 wrote:I would honestly say to stop masturbating. It’s not helping your anxiety. Obviously it’s gonna be harder to if you’re anxious. I’m straight and I’ve gotten off to gay stuff but I know I am straight. But I don’t tempt myself with any of that anymore. It’s not good for the brain anyways. Go have some straight interactions with real people and situations, stop judging your anxiety off of people having sex on a screen.

Can HOCD make your eyes drawn towards same sex ?

At mall I had a glimpse of a really good looking guy but my head made me look at him

I can think of two possible things.

First, you'd have looked at the guy anyway, idle curiosity, envy, whatever. I'm bi, but rarely check dudes out, but a really good looking guy might turn my head for purely non sexual reasons, and it doesn't even occur to me to be sexually attracted. But if you have HOCD, you know you're hyper aware of every little thing you do. To a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Second, it could be simply more checking.

Just my two cents here. Recent research has shown that antibiotics can damage the mitochondria. Mitochondrial disfunction shows up in many mental disorders. What is the treatment for streptococcus? Antibiotics. Maybe it's time to rethink the mechanisms in PANDAS. I'm looking into mito cocktails myself. Trying to keep it conservative. I can't afford 20 different supplements.

Interesting. For my mystery fever I was given penicillin, to which I had a bad reaction....

AWWWW

Thats too bad that you had a flare, I was searching for the relationship between the gut bacteria and ocd and this thread came up. I thought you had nailed it, but then you had a flare. I have been researching about alternative medicine, i've read books where psychiatrists say medicine is not the cure. I believe my ocd came from harsh emotional abuse from my father and him wanting everything to be perfect. Or else i would get emotionally abused and minimized and i feared that a lot. I was pretty clear on this a few years ago. Medicine has messed with my memory mainly, and other aspects as well. Nobody wants to stop taking the meds more than me. This is why I look so many hours for alternative cures. I use to have warts, and traditional medicine said, i had to have each one of them frozen with nitrogen. I went to a homeopathist or however they are called who was also a doctor, and he gave me something that made all my warts dissapear. Anyway i've read a lot, i can tell you medicine helps but my ocd is still there, and sometimes at full force. I know that they say that its a part of our brain thats not working something in the amygdala or the part thats suppose to filter those thoughts, unfortunately CBT is very expensive. but it doesnt make sense how medicine is gonna change the way i think. i mean ive tried it for 4 years and i get worse when im on the meds, its kind of stupid. then when i try to lower them its impossible because then the ocd gets worse, but i stopped taking meds for like 3 months cold turkey and it was in a time where my ocd was passive. Im just pissed off at meds in general because of the side effects.

Also i've been resarching diets as well, read an article about vegetarians and mental health. Some vegetarians claim that if you eat right you can cure ALL diseases, so i read an article about that, and it turned out vegetarians are more likely to be depressed than non vegetarians because they feel kind of isolated and are more likely to be single. Anyway, i still have FAITH that i can come off of the meds one day, and be my old self!!!!!!! Amen!

Were you at times 100% that you were gay while having HOCD?