Am i gay or not

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Riese is the year-old Co-Founder of as well as an award-winning writer, video-maker, LGBTQ+ Marketing consultant and aspiring cyber-performance artist who grew up in Michigan, lost her mind in Novel York and now lives in Los Angeles. Her verb has appeared in nine books, magazines including Marie Claire and Curve, and all over the web including Nylon, Queerty, Nerve, Bitch, Emily Books and Jezebel. She had a very widespread personal blog once upon a moment, and then she recapped The L Word, and then she had the idea to create this place, and now here we all are! In , she was nominated for a GLAAD Award for Outstanding Digital Journalism. She's Jewish. Shadow her on twitter and instagram.

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Am I Gay or is it a Defense Mechanism?

    • Hi, I know that this is a weird one. In my relationship with my ex, I was raped on a regular basis and I really effort with the noun of sleeping with a man again.

      Well 6 months after the breakup, I&#;ve started feeling attracted to women. I have always identified as straight but I&#;m really confused and starting to wonder if I am gay or bisexual.

      Has this happened to anyone else after a domestically abusive relationship, or is it just my mind protecting me from being hurt by a man again?

    • Yes I&#;ve experienced this too. I wasn&#;t attracted to my ex at first, then became super attracted to him and then craved him after I left despite knowing he was a terrible person.

      Then I lost my sex ride completely for a few years, during which time I started to interrogate my sexuality despite only ever having dated men. Recently I&#;ve felt attracted to men again, coinciding with stopping taking a hormonal contraceptive.

      I think a combination of PTSD, trauma processing, discovering radical feminism and hormones made me confused. I fin

      by Fred Penzel, PhD

      This article was initially published in the Winter edition of the OCD Newsletter. 

      OCD, as we comprehend, is largely about experiencing severe and unrelenting doubt. It can cause you to doubt even the most basic things about yourself – even your sexual orientation. A study published in the Journal of Sex Research establish that among a group of college students, 84% reported the occurrence of sexual intrusive thoughts (Byers, et al. ). In direct to have doubts about one’s sexual identity, a sufferer need not ever have had a homo- or heterosexual experience, or any type of sexual experience at all. I have observed this symptom in young children, adolescents, and adults as skillfully. Interestingly Swedo, et al., , start that approximately 4% of children with OCD experience obsessions concerned with forbidden aggressive or perverse sexual thoughts.

      Although doubts about one’s possess sexual identity might seem pretty straightforward as a symptom, there are actually a number of variations. The most obvious form is where a sufferer experiences the thought that they mig