You’re Not Gay: Homosexualy Anxiety OCD - OCD Rource Center

Contents:

• HOCD BUT GAY ANYWAY
• HOCD; GAY OR STRAIGHT OR OCD?
• DO YOU HAVE HOCD OR ARE YOU JT NYG THAT YOU'RE GAY OR BI?
• HOCD – GAY OR HOMOSEXUAL OCD AND REVERY
• YOU’RE NOT GAY: HOMOSEXUALY ANXIETY OCD
• HOCD – HOMOSEXUAL OCD OR THE FEAR OF BEG GAY

HOCD BUT GAY ANYWAY

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HOCD; GAY OR STRAIGHT OR OCD?

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

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HOCD – GAY OR HOMOSEXUAL OCD AND REVERY

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YOU’RE NOT GAY: HOMOSEXUALY ANXIETY OCD

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A person sufferg om this sub-type of OCD nstantly doubts their sexual orientatn:A straight person worri whether they might actually be gay even though they haven’t doubted their sexual orientatn the pastThey might worry that homosexualy is “tchg”They may thk that talkg wh a gay person will make them act out by triggerg their own latent homosexual tennci. Where a tly gay person obtas happs and relief the act of revealg their homosexual orientatn, HOCD people who e out ntue to doubt their wh tradnal OCD, people who are affected by this ternalized homophobia engage ruals to help them alleviate their anxiety and prove to themselv that they are tly straight. They might also perform washg ruals if they are around a gay person, may act overtly to assure themselv of their sexual orientatn, or may even blatantly act out agast gay people orr to prove they are straight.

HOCD – HOMOSEXUAL OCD OR THE FEAR OF BEG 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. 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.

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. As of this wrg I have been bombard by threads, private msag, e-mail, and stant msag by straight folks terrified that they are gay (and a very small number of gay and bisexual folks terrified that they, too, are not their real sexual orientatn). This may sound like ’s a set-up for a joke, or an ongog lgh le a s, but is a real disorr that some have labeled as Homosexual Obssive-Compulsive Disorr (HOCD), though the Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs, the “bible” of psychiatry, has yet to regnize .