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Josh Grayson
Hello,
I have a question about HOCD after reading the book "Freedom from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder".
I understand that a sufferer needs to accept the possibility of being gay to get better.
But the book also says: "...or if homosexuality is morally unacceptable to you, then your answer to the question will be the same as the answer for those who suffer with sexual molestation obsessions". Unfortunately I don't understand exactly what "unacceptable" in that matter means. The answer to this would be, that someone can't know, if he will or won't ever act on the obsession.
Even if he couldn't see being gay as acceptable, he could still be afraid of being gay?!
OCD could turn it into: "What…