Groinal Responses

I feel like talking about groinal responses helps to normalize them! And when we normalize them it is easier to ignore them. Personally I have POCD and I tend to get groinal responses from that, I’ve also had intrusive sexual thoughts about family members. The groinal responses can become intense, persistent, and uncomfortable. My brain makes me question if I enjoy them or not. It is hard to resist ruminating and arguing with my brain about them! And I feel like it is difficult because it is not talked about much. I worry people would think I am crazy! But drop a like if you also experience groinal responses and feel free to share your story in the comments! This way we can remember we are not alone 💜 It does get better with exposure therapy - for a long time I forgot about them. But getting a flare up now has made me think about them

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Anonymous

Date posted: 1y

You are not alone! It sucks! I have been going through this for months now! Does it ever stop?! I would not wish this upon anyone!

Leaff

Date posted: 1y

@Anonymous It does stop! It may not feel like it in the moment. I’ve had really bad episodes before. But it does get better. I even work with children now. So there is hope 💜 (ironically I am fine around them and in the absence of them my brain makes me doubt myself 😅)

Anonymous

Date posted: 1y

My best friend has a girlfriend who is an attractive individual. I don’t want to think about her in a sexual way but my ocd attaches to that and makes me have intrusive thoughts. If I sit with these thoughts and practice erp I don’t know if I’m hurting myself or helping because finding her attractive causes the groinal responses but I don’t want to have them. Any advice?

Anonymous

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 1y

@Anonymous Replying to both of you, look up non concordance response, very common in anxiety and ocd. The doubt and fear cycle is what makes it feel so real. When something is exciting, happy or you like it you can feel all sorts of emotions. When something is scary you can also feel those feelings. They can overlap. So when you feel something and anxiety and fear is attached to it, that’s when the ocd cycle starts and you start to doubt everything because you get those feelings when you are happy and also when you are scared. Stick with erp it will really help, I can tell you from experience

Leaff

Date posted: 1y

@Anonymous I haven’t heard that before! I think this knowledge is really important. Thank you for sharing :)

Blumenkohl1

Date posted: 1y

Groinals have been bothering me for the past two weeks and it only gets worse because it feels like real arousal and I feel like I get urges to it as well but I just feel down the whole time

Leaff

Date posted: 1y

@Blumenkohl1 I hope that they improve soon! You are definitely not alone in that feeling. That’s why it is so hard to ignore groinals - because they feel real and it’s scary! But the more you desensitize yourself to it the easier it becomes. The more you accept it as a symptom the easier it becomes. And of course doing this via exposure therapy is the best way to help. It’s best to start with smaller triggers and work your way up to larger ones. 💜 do you have a therapist?

Blumenkohl1

Date posted: 1y

@Leaff Thank you for your response💜 I am in therapy but unfortunately my therapist isn’t really specialized in ocd, although she encourages me to do exposures but she is doesnt really use the erp method and she does reassure a lot which sometimes makes it a lot worse :/

Leaff

Date posted: 51w

@Blumenkohl1 If you can, I would recommend trying to switch to a specialist. They can do it through the app here! Either way the app has tools you can use to set up a hierarchy of triggers - so you can list them and start with the smallest ones, working your way up to larger ones. That’s the best way to go! It feels terrible at first but it will get better. Best of luck to you on your journey! 💜

Anonymous

Date posted: 25w

Will groinals go away with acceptance

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

Tireddd

Date posted: 23w

Does POCD even exist?

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

Faker6532

Date posted: 22w

Tingling or arousal sensations?

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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