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BM4657, I've had this thought through my teens as well. The thing is, you KNOW deep down that you're not attracted to the same sex. Just because you've had bad luck with the opposite sex means nothing-- it's just that, bad luck! What other people think doesn't matter either, you know the truth deep ...

Beepster thank you so much for replying. Yes, my thought is saying "What if I am?" That's what starts the obsessing, and I'm never going to arrive at an answer, so I just keep obsessing. I keep going over things from my past that would indicate one way or the other. I think I just need to concentrat...

Thank you James. It's just so hard to distinguish between what is anxiety and what is real. The worst part about all this is that it feels like I'm cheating on my boyfriend by having these thoughts! Before this thought came on I would be really happy when I thought about him and now all i have is an...

Thanks to you guys for replying! I guess what scares me is the thought that the "gay" fear might be real... I mean, I KNOW deep down that it's not, but why am I thinking this then? This isn't the first time I've thought this either, it's just gone away in the past. Beepster, I am actually a 19 year ...

Hi everyone, I'm really in need of some encouragement right now. I've been plagued with scary thoughts for the last few months, and I'm still scared out of my mind. It started out with scary thoughts of cutting myself with knives, but that one has since subsided. Along with that I became afraid of k...

Bowz: I am going through the program again too. I did not do the journaling or was not real disaplined with the action assignments, but I read the material and went over the CD's many many times. Hopefully it works. Right now I am going through a break up and have som much anxiety thinking I did som...

Hey Holly,

I just finished tapering off of klonopin and I am on my 11th day. I haven't really felt anything because I went very slowly, I can send you the schedule I used if your interested, I got it from a pharmacologist and it really worked well.