HOCD or Denial: How to Stop the Endless Questioning
HOCD vs Denial: What’s the Difference? People with HOCD (sexual orientation OCD) typically experience intrusive thoughts, anxiety, doubt, and compulsive attempts to gain certainty about their sexual orientation. What is denial? Denial, by contrast, is a psychoanalytic concept referring to unconscious avoidance of painful truths. Because denial is unconscious, trying to “prove” whether you are……