Groinal response sucks so bad

I had it a couple times today while trying to do exposures and I looked at an image like 50 times and I had two groinal responses out of all of those times and I can’t seem to get to the response prevention as soon as I have a groinal response I put Ice down there, it’s getting to be too much, I need to stop trying exposure at home cos I genuinely can’t handle how it makes me feel, i feel so horrible my whole body is burning and I’m shaking so bad it’s making me so angry I wanna die 😔

smcara1

Date posted: 19h

The trick to the exposure is when you get the intrusive groinal response you don’t judge it and just ride the wave. It will produce anxiety and fear. You don’t need to try and figure it out. Label it OCD and ride the way. The first few times it will be hard and then it gets easier. What I’m working on right now is giving my anxiety a number. So I expose and if my anxiety is a 10, then the goal is to reduce it by 50%. So by the end of it, the anxiety isn’t gone, but reduced down to about a 5. When I try the expose again, maybe it peaks at an 8 and then the goal is to ride the wave and reduce the anxiety down to about a 4. The goal isn’t to get rid of it (as much as I want to!) the goal is to learn to ride the wave and give myself grace while doing it. Putting ice in your pants actually is reinforcing the OCD connection. I know it is hard! I’ve laid in bed at night shaking and crying just waiting to pass out so I had some peace from myself. You can get through this!

Fcukocd

Date posted: 19h

@smcara1 Thanks I really appreciate it, I try my best not to ice it, it’s just the groinal response makes it so sensitive I want it to be numb, and ice is the only thing that does that :( I’ll try what you said and ride the wave, groinal response genuinely is the worst part about OCD by a country mile, before this kicked in I could handle the OCD, and since then, it’s like I’m constantly falling down the stairs I worked so hard to climb

smcara1

Date posted: 13h

@Fcukocd You want to numb the response because you’ve given it meaning when in fact it means nothing. Trying to make it stop, or go away is telling the OCD that there is something to fear. You could have groin response all day long to everything, doesn’t make it true. Next time you expose and you get a response that is undesirable, just label it OCD and just practice doing that first. That really helped me at first and then once I was able to create distance between the intrusive thoughts, it got easier for me. I struggle with several themes and all feel the same to me. I use to think oh if I just had health OCD that would be so much easier, but the thing is how you feel with POCD is actually the same response that someone has to a Sensory motor theme. No worse, no better. It’s all just OCD in the end and all treated the same. So don’t put your theme up on a pedestal and give it the power that it’s worse than other themes because actually that’s OCDs sneaky way of having power. It’s hard I know. I have my good days and my bad. I know I’m a good person and so I need to root myself in that belief, not the OCD doubt! We got this.

Fcukocd

Date posted: 13h

@smcara1 I’ll try my best not to do it next time, worst time is when I get it when I’m trying to sleep and I start feeling myself shaking, I guess that’s a good time to practice response prevention, thanks for the advice, yeah we got this

123kate123

Date posted: 16w

pocd and groinal responses

hi does anyone ever get a random grounal response then feel aroused but you don’t want to be like before i had the thought i was feeling a little aroused then i had a random thought and it had the ground response and i felt aroused i don’t understand.

POCD

Fcukocd

Date posted: 14d

SO-OCD

I’ve been struggling a lot recently with intrusive thoughts and images of the same gender, and I’ll often get a groinal response out of pure terror which then fuels hyperawareness to the groin and to salivation which then makes my whole body burn and ruins my whole day out of fear of it meaning something about myself despite all the evidence in my past that I am straight (e.g having a baby on the way, only being attracted to women), I try to tell myself that it’s all OCD and it is a lie, but the groinal response just keeps me in this horrible spiral constantly, to the point that I have nightmares about it, does anyone else have this problem? I’m so exhausted because of it and I can’t sleep because the intrusive thoughts keep me awake for hours on end, I’m getting the help I need but the wait is crippling :(

Fcukocd

Date posted: 13d

Tested attraction in SO-OCD and nothing happened

I tested my SO-OCD groinal response by looking at pictures of my gender, and the reaction I’m so scared of happening, didn’t happen, nor does it ever happen when I try to test “attraction”. I don’t understand why I’m so scared of something that doesn’t even happen when put into practice. In spite of this I still get groinal responses to intrusive images and thoughts, and also get them if I talk about them, I just don’t understand. I hate this so much 😩😔

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