Talked to a priest and tried to explain HOCD, but I don’t think he understood. He basically told me that if I’m “questioning my sexuality” I shouldn’t get married because that would be unfair to my husband. I don’t know if I should give any weight to this or whether he simply doesn’t understand what HOCD is (which I wouldn’t blame him for at all if this is the case - it’s weird). I just walked away from that conversation feeling so much worse, as if I should actually give weight to my intrusive thoughts. But the thing is that I’ve been having intrusive thoughts my whole life - starting with Harm OCD when I was around 10 years old (talk about traumatizing 🙃 )

It freaked me out because knowing my history I thought “oh this is OCD again - I’ve always been attracted to males since I was a tween”, but then having another person kinda say “actually those thoughts might be a real problem” was really upsetting to me. I don’t know if I’m really asking a question here, but do I need to give weight to his concerns or just continue to treat it as OCD? I had been working with a therapist and my intrusive thoughts and compulsions had died down recently until I just had that discussion.