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I overthink this a lot. Whenever I am panicking or just sitting I feel sexual arousal and I don't know why. I think I have PGAD
I overthink this a lot. Whenever I am panicking or just sitting I feel sexual arousal and I don't know why. I think I have PGAD
Interestingly enough, excitement and anxiety can feel the same to our brain. I know also that some people with OCD have groinal responses. I’ve had one before and it shook me to my core. Are you in therapy for OCD?
Hello, Thank you for your response. I am not taking therapy for my OCD
@Ocd You should contact NOCD. They offer a free consultation and can discuss your options
Hi I am so glad somebody else has the sexual arousal theme. I currently am struggling with ‘fear of pgad’ and have very intense intrusive symptoms related to it. The symptoms only go away when I am preoccupied , thus reiterating to myself that it’s likely I don’t have pgad (at least related to any physical problems). I know groinal responses are related to OCD so it’s not far fetched to think it’s the same with the pgad fear. I know how intense it can feel but honestly it’s super normal. It’s your body’s response to stimuli. And more often than not your body responds down there as a reaction to something fearful or anxiety inducing due to blood flow etc
Every time I go to bed late and I’m falling asleep, I suddenly get an intrusive thought of a child’s face and my groinal area always responds to it. It’s such an uncomfortable experience. I am way too tired to try and freak out so I end up falling asleep. The next morning I’m always trying to figure out whether I had the groinal response first or after the thought. I start giving OCD power but it feels like If I let it go, then I’m in denial or whatever. I don’t want to ever do anything sexual with a child. I don’t even feel comfortable talking platonically with people who are 17, much less a child. My therapist says that I have a deep rooted fear that I’m this horrible person and that OCD loves to feed off of it. When you get a groinal response, it makes the thought that much more real. I never want these things to happen. I want to only be into adults. It’s so discomforting and stressful. Especially since I’m hyper checking how anxious I am, and if I find I didn’t really have much anxiety, then I’m like “well if I didn’t have anxiety, what does this mean?” And more questions occur til I end up in a rabbit hole
I’m on my period and o think my ocd feels a little worse today… I feel anxious and like something bad is about to happen, like I can’t move or talk cause I’ll freak out or snap and do something. Also I had a gronial response about an SA topic and I feel horrible, I’ve noticed that I do have these gronials as if I’m actually into that but idk if it can happen that you have the gronial and think “oh I’m horny, not about this but I am” is that possible? Idk how to say it… also I think I just want reassurance but I’m also scared…
Does anyone else when they have the thoughts, they feel against it, but they still get arousal or tenglings sensations in the groinal area? Because this is what I experienced today and I feel like crap. This is going to be very triggering for a lot of you, but there are a lot of times that I notice things from kids. For example, there is a thirteen year old kid who looks very developed for her age, and I take notice of (and this already sounds creepy to me) her chest. Today with my thoughts, I imagined as if I were touching it, and although I usually "no no or "I don't want to do that", she is a kid, etc., I still get responses in my groinal area, and It felt very real. Even now, I feel as though I am faking it, even though I groan 😮💨 from it, and feel as though I am a fraud. Does anyone relate?
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