- Date posted
- 3y
POCD groinal response distress
Hi, I'm new here-- I don't actually know how to tag these posts, so I'm sorry if what I'm going through has nothing to do with your condition. I want to preface this by saying I am confident that I will never harm any child, nor do I feel any urges to harm a child outside of intrusive thoughts I know I would never act on. My distress stems from the morality issue of groinal responses and unpleasant imagery involving children. My arousal triggers incredibly easily unfortunately, I could get aroused watching a mantis mating video (and if you know about mantises, you'll know how incredible that is). Even so, I get an incredible distress when I am given a groinal response from the intrusive images of children. I know that you can be uncomfortable by something and still get aroused, I know that any image reguardless of what it is can trigger arousal if it's of a sexual nature. However, my mind ignores these facts and just says "You're feeling too good thinking about this. People don't mean this when they talk about groinal responses." But the worst is when I'm attempting to maturbate. Whenever I masturbate, my intrusive thoughts in general can "quicken" the experience. It isn't just children, it can be my relatives, or animals, or maggots, etc. So I know it's not the fact that they're children, but the fact that it's a taboo topic. It doesn't matter what "material" I find, no matter what, when I'm nearing the end my brain is desperate enough to imagine taboo thoughts just to reach the edge. I've been thinking about trading off the child intrusive thoughts for thoughts of incest or even beastiality, if it means I'm not thinking about children while doing 'that'. I believe I've actually tried this before with sucess. Reading this, you may be thinking "wow, you seem to have it all figured out." Yeah, I do! It doesn't help. I know the facts presented to me, I know I'm not a pedophile and still, I have doubt. That's how horrible this disorder is. Sometimes it helps reading other people's responses on these things, but other times it can be disturbing. Some people say they at one point enjoyed aspects of these thoughts, or enjoyed specific actions with children. I do not think that's POCD. But I'm not a professional. However, if those things can also be symptoms of POCD, that's even more demoralising, because it blurs the line between pedophilia and the OCD disorder. It's sad that there's no definitive answer on the difference. Sorry for the incredibly long post, I really just wanted to talk about what I've been going through in detail to see if others feel the same way. I am currently seeing a therapist about this, and no, she hasn't told me my thoughts are pedophilic, so that's good!