Hello . I want to tell you my story . I remember when I

Hello .
I want to tell you my story .

I remember when I reached puberty when I was 12 years old boy . I used to have only heterosexual fantasies . then two years later I started to have both homosexual and heterosexual fantasies . But never had any emotions towards guys and never had desire to have sex with any man that exist in reality , despite of women whom I've had both emotional and sexual desire towards them in real life . by time , my homosexual fantasies decreased so much till a point in which I forgot them and couldn't think about them .
I've had sex with many girls and enjoyed it every time till two months later when the disaster came on .
I was in a hard psychological situation under work and study pressure .
I saw one of my closest friends in bad mood and we had a talk in which he confessed to me that he is gay and he was afraid to tell me that because he thinks that I would change my treatment to him as a friend because we are in the middle east where gay rights things aren't so common and usually refused by society . But I wasn't like that theoretically at least .
When I heard that from him , at first I didn't accept it and felt something weird , but after thinking of it that it's something normal and it's a human right I accepted it and I told him that there will be no problem about it and he'll always be one of my best friends . two days later I visited him and we started to talk about homosexuality in my city , he mentioned to me so many names of people I know who are also gays . the next day a thought started coming to me "if my friend and all these people were gay , could I be also gay ? " then hell started .
I have been in relationship with a girl that I love so much for about 9 month. I started to think that I may be gay , in next two day I had a lack of desire , then my old homosexual fantasies came back to me and I couldn't think of any think else . this thing kept on for a whole month , then I discovered that there is something Called HOCD . I understood that real gay guys aren't ashamed or bothered by their sexual desires or fantasies , and are content with being gay despite of HOCD who don't feel good with it .
I know that to cure OCD It's supposed to have a therapist to work with . but I live in Syria where the Psychiatrists are mostly people who just want to sell you drugs and medicine , there are no good doctors here .

I would be pleased if you give me any type of opinions about my case .
and thanks :)

man sounds tough it sounds like you are probably straight and going through hocd. I understand how you feel going through hell sometimes but DONT WORRY me, you and all the other guys and girls in this forum will all come out straight...............eventually

best of luck to you in your battle

we're all staight else we wouldnt be on here

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Hey man, first let me welcome you to this group. Are you sure there are not therapists were you live? If not, i suggest you read up on OCD,CBT, and ERP knowing more about it, could perhaps help you. That aside, it is important, that you try not to dwell on these thoughts. Neither should you try to proof or disproof them. You need to learn, not to be bothered by them. OCD is chronic, but managable. We are here for you if you need us. Good luck

thank you guys for this support .
Well I'm pretty sure of not having therapist at least for now because I live in Syria which is a country that having a big war that caused most of the good therapist to flee out of here :'(

I read about CBT And ERP . I understood the Idea of them but because I know that human psychology is not something to play with , I wanted to have some advice from specialists or experienced people .

I read something about behavior therapy and it keeps on good with me . but I having a terrible headache and a fast heartbeat . I read about that too , Ocd is caused by a disfunction in the caudate nucleus which lays in the middle of the human brain and works as wire between the processing work and the memory in the brain , causing the front part of the brain to have extra work which causes this headache and other body problems .

Any other information could be great my friends !! :)

maybe this'll help make things easier. Start with #1

https://www.youtube.com/user/everybodyhasabrain

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