I need ERP advice please

I already wrote about this and you really helped me, but now I wondered?! During the erp, I look at a picture of that person with some grimaces that the brain sexualizes, otherwise I have incest ocd! The person is of my gender, I'm not gay otherwise. And then, based on those facial expressions, the brain creates sexual images in my head, which I often feel as sexual and mental arousel. It is enough to see the picture or hear the voice of that person! Based on the pictures it gives me the idea of ​​sexually touching myself on it and climaxing while watching. I feel an urge (I tried something like that a few times ago and now I'm afraid of it), and then the exercise is over, but I stay until I get the answer I want and the feelings that would calm me down, but that happens less and less... Have you had any experience, and is it a compulsion? how can I stay after exercise with that feeling of reality.. Thank you in advance❤️

I've got a smart watch that tracks my sleep. It gives data like heart rate, heart rate variability (HRV), respiratory rate, sleep cycles, restfullness, etc etc etc. Well, since the health OCD has gotten to its peak, I am noticing a false patterning coming from it. For context; I was sick 2 times in recent memory where sleeping heart rate and HRV became metrics that I could use to sort of track the illness. In the days leading up to it, I'd notice my heart rate going up and HRV going down (higher hrv is better.) Then when I was fully sick, my HRV would be up to 15ms less than normal. So now, when I look over my sleep data (because I like to look at data like that, it is interesting to me) and notice my HRV is lower than normal, it triggers intrusive thoughts of "am i getting sick again?" despite no other symptoms. Ruminating begins as I try to "figure out" the cause, despite knowing that stress can lower sleeping HRV. My question is; is it a compulsion to be looking at my sleep data? Should I avoid it altogether? Or is this exactly what ERP is; exposing myself to a triggering event and preventing the response? I look at the data either way and it is only alarming when I see something out of the ordinary. So, do I stop tracking my sleep, or is this a good small step for ERP?

Hi. So I've been restructuring my views on taboo,intrusive sexual thoughts for a while now and it's ended up with me being desensitized to them via ERP and CBT. The issue now is that.., I feel desensitized. I don't feel as much anxiety as I did, which I feel like is the only thing stopping me from acting on the thoughts besides my values. I don't feel as disturbed, I don't feel as distressed with groinal reponses, I don't feel as distressed experiencing unwanted arousal which makes this feel so insanely real. I've moved from focusing on thoughts to focusing on what's happening emotionally, all day, every day, trying to "catch myself" feeling something wrong and then wondering what that means about me, whether it does or doesn't, what to do etc. I also started engaging in this ritual where I bring up a wanted thought or image then go to the unwanted image and check for either a change in reaction or a new reaction appearing, or vice versa: automatically neutralizing a bad thought with a good thought, experiencing arousal as a result of the good thought, but then wondering if it wasn't because of the bad one all along. It's tremendously confusing and concerning - I sometimes experience this very odd feeling of chest tightness or warmth that feels like anxiety but also sexual for some reason, but it's definitely still anxiety. However what's more concerning is I feel much more comfortable with such a taboo topic than I did as a result of "not reacting" as I was told to do. Like ERP somehow normalized these thoughts and made me actually fine with them even though I really don't want that to be the case. Ideas?