Anybody have advice on groinal responses.

Hey Rogan yeah .mine is like a tingle sometimes a little swelling and lubrication. Freaking sucks. Last night they had gone away then. I was put in a situation that gave me high anxiety and the groinal responses came back that's how I know it's not really arousal as well. But it does tend to throw you off. If that makes any sense

@Adryan2020 It does make sense. It's how ocd works tho. Even when you know and feel 100% certain about something it makes you doubt even if the ocd logic breaks the laws of physics. That's what's special about this condition, you can't ever be certain even in a situation where there is no doubt so you seek for new proofs, it's like a drug addiction, sexual orientation ocd is not about sexuality, it's about ocd after all. That's why they say that we must learn to live with uncertainty. You don't know if you're attracted to that person/gender and you don't have to, you don't need to venture out seeking for proofs. Live with no proofs.

@Rogan I couldn't agree with you more man . Like deep down inside I know I have no attraction desire etc. And I guess it just scares me if one day I end getting a erection just because of these responses does that make sense even tho I don't feel that way.

@Adryan2020 I also struggle with that fear but i also realize that if my brain was wired to be attracted to a certain gender for example it would have shown itself in a different way long ago and also i see that i have had the groinal response so many times but it has never ended up being a real arousal even though it had a lot of time to do so, so learning from the past we can predict the future, if groinal response led to nothing before it won't lead to anything in the future that's something i can tell for sure. Also i noticed it doesn't affect my memories of the past if it makes sense, i mean that i don't remember experiencing the groinal response last month even though i know i experienced it every single day. The experience didn't accumulate, if again it makes sense. It doesn't evolve into anything ever as I can see. It's the same thing over and over again, fixations can change but they all have limits, at least in my case, I'm stressed over ether one thing or another, never simultaneously over both or more. Also I want to add that i had sexual orientation ocd when i was about 16 with groinal response as well but then when i got a partner i gradually forgot about it and nothing could cause the groinal for almost 7 years even with triggers being present but then it started again only because an old untreated trauma surfaced which clearly indicates, in my opinion, that it has nothing to do with sexuality, it has a lot to do with fixations. I believe that if you convince yourself to be afraid of tables you'll get a groinal response to them as well.

This is my favorite article too lol I always go back to this one when I'm on doubt.

@Adryan2020 that's a compulsion sorry to tell you, you know that you're not supposed to do that👀

@Rogan 🤣I know I know.

I know I had a groinal response in the morning and I was just laying down not thinking about anything . The other day at work I almost smashed my hand and I I a response as well I think our nerve endings and brains are just mixed up somehow.

@Adryan2020 I just think it's natural to have them, just most of the people don't pay attention to this response.

@Adryan2020 I asked one of my friends whether or not they had groinal responses and doubts about their sexuality because of that not mentioning ocd or my mental condition. Supposingly to me he said it happened sometimes but he just didn't bother thinking of it too much. I might ask other people too but I don't wanna make a compilation out of it

@Rogan Surprisingly*