Groinal response question.

My main theme is SOOCD and with my flare up the groinal response goes crazy. Does anyone else get the groinal response for literally anything? Like faces, looking at body parts, being in close proximity to someone of the same gender, or when you’re literally just anxious, stuff like that. I think it’s maybe bc of the automatic checking. Like i’ll see a woman on social media, immediately get anxious (sometimes), and start checking everything. TRIGGER WARNING for anyone with another theme!!!!!! This makes me feel so disgusting to type out. I don’t want to think about it for too long before I trigger another theme. Like sometimes it happens with my own family members. It makes me feel so disgusting. Can anyone relate?

1Dgirly

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 25d

I can relate. The only person I’ve ever said it out loud to is my therapist, and I cried a lot when I did say it. I felt so disgusting, like I wasn’t safe to be around. I truly avoided therapy for so long because I was scared I would be admitted somewhere for these things. My therapist telling me that if they’re unwanted feelings and they make me feel disgusted, it’s proof that I don’t truly want these thoughts or responses. Understanding that OCD attacks the things you care about and are not true secret feelings have taken a huge weight off my shoulder. Now, when it happens, I roll my eyes and say “yeah ok!” In a sarcastic way. For more intense times, I imagine myself in a car, with the thought or feeling in its own car next to me. I imagine myself in my car saying “this is ocd.” And letting the other car drive off. Don’t reassure yourself or anything, just state exactly what’s happening - ocd is appearing in your brain. I know you didn’t ask for advice, but this is just what I do. And it’s helped my mental health SO much.

Anonymous

Date posted: 25d

@1Dgirly I’m going though the same I don’t want to be gay it’s disgusting I’ve always liked men I’ve always had crushes on men why am I getting these urges I can’t even be normal to freinds I don’t want to be gay I even got better and now I’m getting a thought of a girls hand touching mine but wen I think of a man’s hand my Brian changes it to a women and I feel like it’s true. I don’t want to be gay

1Dgirly

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 22d

@Anonymous Being gay isn’t bad. I’m pansexual, and though I didn’t fully understand what that meant for me until I was 28, I understand how confusing it can be and depending on your life and who you’re surrounded by, it can be scary. I hope you have a therapist through NOCD and can talk about this with them. I like to say people come as they are, and finding yourself is a journey only you can go on. Please be kind to yourself ♥️

Anonymous

Date posted: 22d

@1Dgirly No don’t like women like that I like men I have crushes on men

Fcukocd

Date posted: 25d

Yes I can relate and it’s horrible

Ms.shelovesf...

Date posted: 25d

I relate to the groinal response to anything and everything (not a frequent thing for me rn but it’s only recently it reduced)

What is happ...

Date posted: 25d

I went through this for the first 3 months to absolutely anything of the same gender. This does not happen now 7 months on. It does decrease/ go away in time. Hang in there.

Fcukocd

Date posted: 10w

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: 9w

Groinal response to triggering things

I was looking at adult pictures and I had a small groinal response to a really triggering picture of a man and it’s making my sexual orientation OCD go into hyper mode, idk why I do this shit to myself I keep acting on compulsions that just make things worse

Anonymous

Date posted: 4w

Question about groinal response

How strong does the groinal response feel for any of you? I ask this because I genuinely cannot tell the difference between what is a groinal response and what is true arousal. A lot of the times the groinal response feels even stronger than true arousal. On top of that, the more taboo or disturbing/graphic the thought (particularly with POCD), the stronger the response/arousal is. Is that normal? I'd like to hear any of your experiences on the topic.

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