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- 1y
AnonymousAnonymous
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- 1y
A groinal response is entirely part of OCD. I know it feels real but it doesn't make it any more real than any other part of OCD. It's all our brains lying to us.
lissamlslissamls
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- 1y
thanks for answering. but do you know how to make this feeling go away? It's the only thing bothering me right now.
AnonymousAnonymous
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- 1y
@lissamls Unfortunately I don't know how to make it go away. OCD naturally wants you to perform compulsions to get it to go away but that will not help you. The only thing I can tell you is that if you live with the discomfort and delay or cease any compulsions you feel you need to do as a result of it, it will likely go away.
jazzynljazzynl
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- 1y
exposure helps. being around kids. but i heard stories where ppl test it by masterbating, don’t do that i can only guess it’ll get worse after that cuz it’s all a mental thing. your mind would prolly drive you crazier. i had groinal responses and heard stories of ppl spacing themselves away from kids but this only feeds the fire. so learning from the mistakes others made, i stay around my little siblings, hug them, kiss them, spend time w them, take care of them. it’s a work n progress, ocd tries me every once and n a while but now ik for sure it’s not me, it’s just a matter of quieting the thoughts and REPLACING them rather than “ignoring” them. but yeah exposure helps a lottt. doing those small things u think suggests u might be a pedo like smiling at a kid, hugging them, even talking to them.
lissamlslissamls
- Date posted
- 1y
It took me a while to answer but I'm really doing this and I've improved a lot, I have a niece and I felt the groinal but I'm not sad or anxious about it anymore because I know it's not true and it really helped. It's already starting to go away, thanks for your advice🤍
AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 1y
@lissamls I get really strong groinals almost automatically just from looking at images. What did you do to make yours go away or at least get better?
lissamlslissamls
- Date posted
- 1y
@Anonymous i also get groinal just by looking at images, before it was stronger but I managed to convince myself that it was just something fake and caused by anxiety and that helped a lot.
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