I hate how a new question will spike my anxiety, thoughts, and groinal responses and make me feel like I’m losing my progress :(

For me it’s like a sensation in my private are or even like a pulse

@Whyyocd area*

Any feeling or reaction in the groinal area is a groinal response it can feel like anything.

@Whyyocd For me it’s like the feeling you get before I need to use the bathroom but I don’t have to use the bathroom.

@NihonWarrior516 Omg I’ve felt that too!!! It felt like that when my anxiety was most high because the feeling was constant

@Whyyocd Yeah sometimes it will literally last for hours

I’ve felt that too

For like 2-3 months when this first started I was getting a lot of groinal responses to women (in person, social media, intrusive images). I literally felt like I had no attraction for my boyfriend. I couldn’t get aroused. I felt like I didn’t even find any guy handsome. I’ve been getting a lot of spontaneous exposure since I’m in college and my anxiety has finally gone down a good amount. And I also get less groinal responses. Anddd I definitely get aroused by my boyfriend now. I honestly believe anxiety and depression has a lotttt to do with how we feel. Even sexually. And we hyper focus on things too. Like our arrousal.

@Whyyocd Yeah attraction wavers when anxiety is at its worst and comes back and goes so frequently but pretty much never 100% I’m guessing that’s what a full recovery would look like.

@NihonWarrior516 Yes I think so!

@Whyyocd What exposures did u do

@Anonymous Rn I wrote a short story basically about me having intrusive thoughts/images/and scenarios about a specific girl and then not being able to “hold myself back” and so I ask her out. I realize I have feeling for her and that I’m sexually attracted to her. So I break up with my bf and everyone I know sees me differently. And then while being with the girl I realize I’m actually not lesbian at all and that I lost the person I loved and he fell in love with someone else. I read it every day (30 times). and I’m also in college so I see women all the time. I also go to the gym. I also watched the WAP video every day lolll

Yeah sometimes I’ll still get the feeling of being turned on but it’s a lot less now.