What do you think? Because I do it all the time I don‘t know if it‘s normal or not and if it‘s risky for the reboot..
Online or in real life? You can't slow or speed up a reboot but of course if you'll look at girl's bottoms you'll be more likely to relapse because you invite sexual thoughts
I meant in real life bro, online I never look at girls because most stuff is pornographic on instagram and so on..
Honestly I think it’s good for a reboot, it gets you on the road to be attracted to real life and not pixels
Dude I do the same in real life I'm constantly checking out girls, and I'm like I shouldn't but in a way it helps my HOCD I'm like man I'm soo happy I'm looking at women and not men. But at the same time, yes high chance of relapse... my opinion, looking but don't stare and make it obvious or fantasize about it. We're human we're gonna look... from what I read it might take a year to stop looking at women like a sex object of that is a issue yr having
This doesn't help your HOCD even thought it feels like it's helping. This is known as a ritual in the obsessive-compulsive disorder world, and it only slows down your recovery, since what it does is bring you temporary short-term relief but in the long-run the intrusive thoughts that you are homosexual return and you try to look at women again to 'confirm' or to 'make sure' you are not homosexual. This slows down both your recovery from HOCD but also makes it more likely that you will relapse as it invites sexual thoughts and fantasies.
I agree with you to a certain extent, I feel everyone is different, I understand it's not good but for me it helps in some ways it makes me forget about my HOCD and slowly I see it not sticking around in my mind and fading away but to each their own I guess