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Give it no meaning at all. Just say “ok, there is arousal” or even “ok, there is a sensation” and do your best to not analyze it and not make it mean anything!
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But it’s real arousal
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So?
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Arousal is nothing but a sensation in your body! We create meaning that we add to the sensation, but in reality it is just a sensation. Try some mindfulness meditation where you just watch the sensations come and go without adding meaning to it!
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Ok thank u Susan
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Of course. I’ve been through this and a key to getting through it was the mindfulness and just watching the arousal (or lack thereof) after an exposure and doing everything I could to not analyze it or apply meaning to it! Read up on some mindfulness techniques like body scans. Also The Mindfulness Workbook for OCD is so good! And so it the ACT workbook written by Russ Harris. It’s not specifically about OCD but has good activities for practicing mindful acceptance.
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I already wrote about this and you really helped me, but now I wondered?! During the erp, I look at a picture of that person with some grimaces that the brain sexualizes, otherwise I have incest ocd! The person is of my gender, I'm not gay otherwise. And then, based on those facial expressions, the brain creates sexual images in my head, which I often feel as sexual and mental arousel. It is enough to see the picture or hear the voice of that person! Based on the pictures it gives me the idea of sexually touching myself on it and climaxing while watching. I feel an urge (I tried something like that a few times ago and now I'm afraid of it), and then the exercise is over, but I stay until I get the answer I want and the feelings that would calm me down, but that happens less and less... Have you had any experience, and is it a compulsion? how can I stay after exercise with that feeling of reality.. Thank you in advance❤️
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I try not to pay attention to my thoughts. I realized that when a thought pops up for me (sex scene), I go back to it a couple of times to figure out what I am I also felt whether, and I simply decided to let them go..however, I am worried about that feeling of sensation in my groin at those scenes in my head, I am afraid of the fact that I can feel something while I am imagining it and that it is spinning non-stop in my mind! l imagine Just A part and it's constant for some days (like a part of a face, a look or something) the whole scene goes to that I spontaneously imagine and I have the feeling that only that part "turns me on" at the beginning, then the rest... Have you had similar experiences and how to overcome? thank you (edited)
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