I know groinal responses usually happen with intrusive thoughts and everything. But I’ve gotten them to things that I hear and they weren’t sexual at all and that makes me worry that I am what I fear :/
ocd is basically like a bully. it knows that u are afraid of something, so it will do things like this on purpose. also, groinal responses dont mean anything. they can usually happen due to anxiety.
Again, our bodies are weird and OCD will make us think we feel or focus on things that may are happening with our bodies that have nothing to do with the thought but it finds a way to link them together. We learn to fight back and ignore these responses with time. Have you been getting therapy for OCD?
I mentioned this on another thread but.. DO NOT believe everything you think.. and feel.... Do you find yourself worrying about the content of your thoughts (“why am I thinking that terrible thing!?”)? or even everything your body feels? Does your OCD ever try to convince you that because you had aggressive thoughts, you might actually be an aggressive person? If so, you probably have a high level of the belief that thoughts are important. But the truth is that not all thoughts/feelings are created equal! The fleeting thought about rear-ending the car that just pulled out in front of you or about taking off your shirt at church do not deserve the same attention as our other thoughts. Or having a groinal response to something seemingly unimportant... But OCD would like you to believe that there’s a terrible reason for each and every one of your most disliked thoughts/feelings. Instead of treating all thoughts as significant information about yourself or the world, you can adopt more balanced thoughts, such as: • OCD gives me a lot of spam/trash thoughts. • Thinking something doesn’t make it more likely to be true. • My morality is not tied to my thoughts. • What are some others that could be helpful for you?
Agreed in TOTALITY!!!!
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…
I keep getting these groinal responses when I think about kids or see one and it's really distressing, I only just learned that OCD can make you feel that and it's not actually attraction but it's so hard to remember that and I've seen people talking about accepting uncertainty but I'm so scared to think "maybe it's attraction maybe it's not" instead of "no it's not attraction that's disgusting" and idk what to do
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