i just learned what a groinal response is, and i think i have it. i do not know how to go on any longer if that is what’s happening. pocd is bad enough, to add that to the list feels impossible. i feel so disgusted and humiliated. i feel like this is all the evidence i need that i am a p. please help me. i don’t know how to survive this
Hey Carrie! So I wanna share something with you. I didn’t know I was experiencing POCD. For the last year and half, I have been having POCD thoughts come and go, and I fought against them. It made it worse. I also had a groinal response. I would be around my niece and have it and I thought I was a P. As well.. but I’m not. That is not who I am at all, that is not my character. I wanna let you know Carrie. You can overcome this POCD. With God, you can do anything through Christ who gives you strength. Jesus wants to set you free from POCD Carrie. It is a journey of learning to love yourself. And learning to receive Gods love for you Carrie. You are not what your thoughts tell you you are. Don’t fight against them. Remember, in the moments when the POCD is high, don’t fight them. Become aware of them, & just take yourself a bit less serious every day when they come. You can do this. Learn what OCD is so that you can know the root of it, I recommend to get into mark de Jesus work, get his book, the OCD healing journey. You got this. You don’t need to be perfect. Relax, take a breath, & remember, it’s okay where you’re at. It’s a journey, not an overnight process. Your not a p, your a child of God who has values and loves people. OCD perverts that, but it’s okay, cuz you will overcome it
@Anonymous thank you so much. i really needed to hear this
@carriejenson Carrie you’re not a P. Learn to love yourself Carrie. Understand this, that God loves you. Not based on what you do, but based on who He is. He’s your Father Carrie. And He wants you to learn to love yourself, but you can only do that when you begin the journey of letting Him love you right where you’re at. You don’t need to fix yourself, what you need, is to learn to accept yourself as you are. No one is perfect Carrie, you don’t need to be. God doesn’t expect you to be perfect. You will get through this battle, & you will overcome it
@carriejenson I recommend to try this what mark de Jesus says. It’s called TULA. Total unconditional love and acceptance. It ain’t easy let me tell ya. But, place your hand and your heart,& say, I totally unconditionally love and accept myself right where I’m at. I know it sounds cliche, but as you do this overtime, and learn to stop fighting against the OCD, you will begin to slowly believe it. And who knows? You’ll start to feel more accepting of yourself, you got this Carrie
@Anonymous thank you so, so much♥️
@carriejenson Try that book if you feel pulled too you got this
@Anonymous i will try. it’s just so hard to feel like i’m even worthy to read the book or pray or even breathe. i feel like God is disgusted by me
Try journaling. It helps
This has been stressing me out, i don't find many specific scientific articles on groin response or similar topics, this makes me wonder if we all actually have a more serious problem? None of the therapists i've been to seem to think about OCD when talking to me and i'm not even diagnosed with anything, i'm always wondering if this means that i'm bad and i'm just hiding behind a false thing. Maybe my therapists would not comprehend that fully and i 100% understand them, apart from thoughts i have other things like groinal responses, that's one of the most uncomfortable things to say because i'm always afraid that by describing it, they'll suspect something way worse. It is worrying that i have not been able to find anything else for that topic on the internet apart from what this same app posts or the same old sources, i cannot find a big study very focused on it and that scares me
Just gonna vent, this never happened to me before during my 20 years alive. Whether it is POCD or not, I have truly lost my sense of self and my innocence. Why of all things did this have to happen. Ive been experiencing more strong groinal responses and mixed feelings of arousal regarding specific thoughts. Its so odd, cause last month none of this happened, it was mainly just anxiety and mental breakdowns. Never did I think I would experience physical sensations as well. Acting on compulsions as well left me feeling absolute confusion, Ive stopped doing that but now I get the urge here and there, and Ive learned to sit with the discomfort. All this leaves me with more questions on whether I will truly get through this or not, or if people will understand my situation. On certain days I feel fine, on other days its sheer terror. I blame myself mainly for this all, It is scary as these images, causing both arousal and terror, only result in me feeling like a shell of my former self
I am hurting so much right now. I feel sad and disgusted with myself that I would even worry about these things (pocd). What kind of a human even thinks that and has doubts about that?? Definitely not one that’s rational or mentally sane. That kind of stuff should be a no brainer so why do I worry about it so much and what does it say about me? I feel sick and disgusted and can’t stop crying over it. I just feel so defeated like I want to disappear. I started ERP and every time I resist reassuring myself it comes back at me from every angle. I hate this so much.
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