crisis! Help!

I decided to work ERP harder than before in everything, and to try to separate ocd from myself. However, this morning when I was talking to my sister, I felt that some of her breathing caused my groin and some arousel, and if I didn't consciously analyze it... I honestly feel really bad, because I can't connect it with ocd but with me and it makes me very nervous and I get angry... do you have any advice? experience? what's wrong with me now?

Jesse1982

Date posted: 11w

Nothing is wrong with you I get groinal responses too. My therapist said if for 24 hours I focus on my private it's always moving, don't give it meaning

Anonimus ME 🦋

Date posted: 11w

@Jesse1982 but I didn't focus, at least not consciously! We were talking on the phone and my ear registered that micro breath which is a trigger for me or I'm afraid I don't hear it and immediately there is something like excitement in my stomach and groin, I continued everything ok, but I'm desperate that it's happening without even analysis and focus... I don't know how not to attach importance...

Jesse1982

Date posted: 11w

@Anonimus ME 🦋 - There are many reasons you get groinal responses, you can't control it when you have ocd. But the fact that you worry about it proves your ok

Anonimus ME 🦋

Date posted: 11w

@Jesse1982 I don't take comfort in that. It's been a long time since I've had neither fear nor analysis, only automatic reactions to a voice, to movement, to something, and it terrifies me, as if my body is out of control... do you think that's not real excitement? and that it is possible even if it was not preceded by a conscious focus?

Jesse1982

Date posted: 11w

@Anonimus ME 🦋 - I was very depressed because I got a groinal when I saw a kid or my daughters privates etc. I think our bodies have alot of anxiety. There are many articles on groinal responses that are helpful

Anonimus ME 🦋

Date posted: 11w

@Jesse1982 I'm really sorry that it causes you so much trouble, it also depresses me because such images of intimate scenes automatically come to my mind and put me into anxiety... and now even so automatically... it's possible that I'm simply not aware of anxiety... just like you in those moments..

Anonymous

Date posted: 11w

Hi Anonimus, it helped me looking at the other counterpart that even when I'm or others intending to be aroused they just couldn't have groinal responses. The body has it's own stressor cortisone and trying it's best with the nervous system. So sometimes the body throws out whatever to see what sticks and takes any reaction as data to go "Oh you reacted, is this what you're looking for brain?" So I forgive myself ahead of time before the triggers and when the trigger does happen I sit with the discomfort to let the nervous system ooze out and eventually it feels less about suppressing, blaming, and interrogation and more like "one moment. Body got a cramp"

Anonimus ME 🦋

Date posted: 11w

@Anonymous you think it's a response to stress that I'm not even aware of anymore?

Anonymous

Date posted: 11w

@Anonimus ME 🦋 It doesn't have to be triggered by stress, needs, desire, or unconsciousness. It just happens or even feels like it happens without it actually happening like a deja vu that never happened yet the more the brain tries to make sense of the why and how to solve the more it exercises the body to keep it up. So it's to treat this the same as a sneeze, there's no question to ask why it is happening, what causes it, what to do to prevent it, how to predict it, who's fault is it.

Anonimus ME 🦋

Date posted: 11w

@Anonymous Yes, sometimes I don't know if it happened or I just felt that it did, something, and the more I remember, the more real it seems... it throws me into despair, despair...

Estrid

Date posted: 11w

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Anonimus ME 🦋

Date posted: 23w

Some advice? Sexualizing think!

sexualizing the person my ocd is hooked on bothers me a lot! it doesn't matter if I see the picture, live, facial grimaces, movements... and the groin starts instantly... I somehow cope with thoughts, but with those feelings...very difficult? any advice? any similar experience?

Anonimus ME 🦋

Date posted: 19w

I can't do it anymore and I don't trust myself..😞

I can't anymore.. Erp is very traumatic for me. It's about a sexual topic, and I come out with those scenes in my head, as well as photos of that person where their face makes me think of sexual grimaces. Every time, but every time during practice, I get detailed scenes and groinal. To me it looks like real sexual excitement, and I don't know exactly how to be immune to something that is sex in itself! I don't believe it's part of ocd at all..because it won't come off me and I can't believe it's not me

Anonimus ME 🦋

Date posted: 12w

like I'm suffocating...

these days I feel particularly bad. I can't let the thoughts and those scenes be there without going deeper into it. Everything about my sister has become a trigger for me, and I have the impression that she "turns me on" and creates a big panic. I feel like I can't breathe because I don't know how to let it all go and I don't attach importance... 5 months of ERP and now this, I can't do it, I don't know it...and I don't know what else to do...

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