| Re: I've hit a bump
Here is an idea for you that does help me some:
Wear a bracelet around your wrist. Everytime you try to tell yourself you think you might be gay, look at it. Whenever you look at the bracelet, make yourself say something repetetive about being straight. For instance, my therapist calls this thought stopping. I use thought stopping by using a physical reinforcement (a bracelet).
Example:
You are watching TV and you hear the word gay. You immediatley think you might be gay.
(Look at the bracelet) Say, "Thought GET OUT OF MY HEAD! I am a very straight man, who is strictly into women."
You have to stop the thought immediately when it starts. And the key is to Consistent. Everytime you have gay thoughts you need to say a postive counterstatement.
I use this with my fear of germs. It really does help. It can be exhausting, cause you'll find yourself doing it quite a bit. But eventually, when you hear or think the work gay, you will have no reaction to it.
GOOD LUCK!
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