Hi everyone. As usual it's been some time since I've been on this site. I guess when I'm doing fairly well I stay away and I feel bad about that because maybe it's selfish of me?Some of you might know that I have mainly pure o or pure ocd when my obsessions ions and compulsions are mainly in my mind and not always manifested in physical checking. I've had so many ocd thoughts that I couldn't list them all. I've had hocd and biocd and they never usually last too long. When those intrusive thoughts subside I go back to being myself, a straight male and I'm fine again. Well lately I'm having Transgender ocd and this is really upsetting me. I really can't ever recall having Transgender ocd before. I have to back track and mention something I went through when I was very young. Sometime during or after puberty and into my teens I developed a fetishes for women's underwear. I like many young boys had seen my share or porn and for some reason I felt like the closest I could get to being intimate with a women was to wear women's panties. I know this doesn't make much sense but that how I thought at the time. This eventually led me to trying on my mother's and my sisters underwear. It felt taboo and wrong but that just led to being more aroused. Thus all became part of my master baton ritual. I would fantasize about straight sex and masterbate while wearing ladies panties. This went on for probably a year or two until I was caught by my sister. When I w as caught I was horrified and completely ashamed and felt horrible guilt. I felt lime a monster and that somehow I violated both my mother and sister. I felt so much shame.I never gave into the fettish after that. I have.live my who life as a man and never doubted my gender. I also know I'm straight other than the times I've had hocd. I've only dated women and I lived with my ex wife for 5.5 years before getting married and then we were married for 6.5 years until it ended. Never during those tears with her or even the 7 years since she left have I ever had this Transgender ocd. But about a week ago out of nowhere I thought about when I had worn ladies panties. Not sure why I thought about it but I did. Well thus somehow led to me thinking what if I wore those panties because I really wanted to be a women? Instantly this thought bothered me and my ocd started to run with it. I started to think to myself this is just ocd because I've never ever thought about it in 46 years and to all of a sudden think it surely has to be ocd. It has all the exact symptoms of all my other ocd fears. The obsessive thinking. Not being able to go a minute without obsessing about the fear of being Transgender. Thinking my life is over. Fearing I'll never get over “this” new ocd fear. I know in my heart that it's only ocd. I know I'm a man and have always been. I have no desire to be a women at all. But my mind keeps obsessing and trying to remember thoughts of thinking I was or wanted to be a girl/women. My ocd keeps making me think what if I'm denying my true nature (being a women). I'm very happy being a man and I have no interest or desire being a women but my ocd is really bad right now! Any advice would be greatly appreciated! 😔
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First of all I also stay away when I am doing well so your not alone there I also think am I being selfish but we have to do what's best for ourselves. As for your current ocd intrusive thoughts I think you know yourself that if you wanted to be a women it would be a feeling you had from a very young age and you would feel like you were not in the right body sorry I don't know much on this subject but as you have said you know that this is just ocd and it's ocd that is making you doubt this try not to let the thought over take you yes I know easier said than done try laughing at the thought and put it out your mind you know your own body and how you feel don't let ocd make you doubt who or what you are which I am sure is a kind thoughtful and full of life guy. I wish you all the best dealing with this new intrusive thought but I know you can beat it.
It always amazes me the way OCD can make us doubt oursevles and what we know to be true…from the smallest, most routine activity (did I lock the door?) to who we actually are and how we feel. The sudden memory of your boyhood activities probably has to do with the fact that you're alone now (or are you in a new relationship?). Anyway, if you're having a "dry spell", that would be enough to spark the memory and, as we all know, OCD loves to find new material with which to torment us. Hang in there, try not to give it too much attention–either by worrying about it or by denying it–and go back to whatever has been keeping you busy the last several months. Hopefully, the OCD will settle back down.
Thanks everyone for your replies. It is great to have support!
Thanks Chris_I!
First off, I'm just going to start by saying that sexuality is wierd-it's not black or white. That being said, I'm not hinting that I think you're transgendered or gay. From what you've written, it just looks like you're a tormented OCD sufferer-that's all. The stuff you did when you were a teenager or a kid was probably not as weird as you think it was. Like I said-sexuality is strange and kids, espcially teens, do really weird and strange things during this stage of their development. Their experiment with different things, different people; they normally just won't ever admit it or talk about to anyone ever. It doesn't make you a monster or a sexual deviant. Teenagers and kids do wierd shit. How do know this? Because I've had severe gay OCD before and even transgender OCD and part of my exposure therapy was to research the topic of human sexuality. I was also in bed and almost hospitalized. This happened probably 10 years ago today, and I barley deal with these thoughts anymore. Sure once in a while they'll pop up, but they aren't anything like how they were. I would strongly reccomend reading Fred Penzel's book, "Obsessive Complusive Disorders." That was what I read through this and it really helped to save my life.
Also, fetishes are fetishes. Almost everyone has at least one and it rarley ever has anything to do with being gay or straight. If you're not hurting anyone or yourself, big deal, it was just a fetish.
I hope this helps and pease try to go for a walk today. You don't need to torture yourself, you've done nothing wrong and you'll get better.
Thanks Jess!