Hi guys. I haven't been diagnosed with anything and I saw a psychologist for a while and she thought I was fine but I'm still here cause I think I might have ocd cause of the power some of my thoughts have over me. I wanted to ask if some of you have ever experienced this...pressure? Like just a feeling in your vagina but you weren't aroused or anything. I remember the first time I felt it I started getting anxious thinking it means I'm a sex addict or that I did something wrong to my vagina and now I'll live like this forever. It caused me some distress but the distress faded after a day I think though I still have that sensation. I just wanted to ask if this was a symptom of some sort or if it something else I need to get checked.

☔gH0St🌂

Date posted: 4y

You're describing a groinal response! Very normal in OCD. https://ocdlife.ca/what-is-groinal-response/ This next article is a little more theoretical but interesting. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.madeofmillions.com/articles/whats-going-ocd-arousal/amp

verydistressed

Date posted: 4y

Thank you for this

verydistressed

Date posted: 4y

I can't access a therapist on this app where I am and I don't think my parents would let me see a phychiatrist since it's not really affecting my life. But thank you for taking time to answer this. I really appreciate it

Anonymous

Date posted: 4y

You're welcome! The best advice I can give them since you can't see a therapist is keep in mind that worrying excessively about health is an OCD thing. At one point I worried myself so bad about my health that I caused the very symptoms I was worried I might have: depression, being tired, not enjoying things like I used to. So keeping in mind that all this worrying is an OCD thing and not worrying that you actually need to be doing might help. If that doesn't help, the real way to handle OCD is being comfortable with uncertainty. If you do have OCD you might have 3 different phsychologists tell you you're not a sex addict, and still doubt and worry about it anyway, because there's no objective way to prove that you are or aren't a sex addict. At which point you just have to learn to accept the uncertainty, feel the distress that causes, and resist the compulsions to constantly think about it and either prove or disprove that you're a sex addict.

Anonymous

Date posted: 4y

@Anonymous Accept the unessyness, live your life anyway, and the unessyness will subside

verydistressed

Date posted: 4y

I don't think I'm a sex addict, I just have worries that I might be hypersexual, ya I think that's a better way to describe it. But this doesn't bother me much anymore. Thank you again for answering. Ill try to keep living normally and not let these thoughts bother me :)

Anonymous

Date posted: 4y

Set up a meeting with NOCD if you can, they can do a screen to see if you have OCD. Can't really say much about the vagina, as I don't have one. The fact that having pressure down there somehow makes you worried you might be a sex addict sounds like it could be OCD to me, but you'll have to get an evaluation for OCD specifically. If the pressure down there causes physical distress, see a doctor. But again, the mental part of this sounds like OCD to me. I got a psychological evaluation done that indicated anxiety, but no OCD. But my OCD has been severe and crippling for almost a year now. An OCD-specific evaluation indicated that I do, indeed, have OCD.

☔gH0St🌂

Date posted: 4y

No problem, I hope things get better for you.

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