Posted: Jun 13, 2016 7:47 pm
Keep It Real wrote:I think I used to suffer from HOCD - before I was consistently and properly medicated for my schizophrenia. I used to call it a fear of vertiginous homophobic collapse. The thing I feared I reason now was that I would no longer experience heterosexual coupling. Loss aversion. It's important to me - being a meat bag of propagating genetic material. It was largely caused by my being identified as gay by strangers - I had a kind of floaty insecure manner. Since I've been medicated I no longer get identified as such and perhaps that helps. Identifying people as being gay could be a major cause of hocd IMO.
It isn't. It happens in homosexual people, where of course they have an irrational fear of being straight. Its causes appear to be the same as the causes of OCD; childhood neglect or abuse, a trauma or 'we don't rightly know'.