If you suffer from taboo themes, and deal with groinal responses… Do you feel they have disappeared? Do you still notice them? For myself, they have become so engrained/automatic , so while i do not get “anxious” by them anymore i still can clock them & it can feel discouraging … What are your experiences?
They’re not present most of the time but they’re still around and pop up during stressful times. You’re not going to 100% get rid of intrusive thoughts, feelings, and images. Everyone deals with them.
@Nica Gahhh im in such a foreign place with my ocd currently. Im 31 and ive dealt with it my whole life. Ive often had months of flare ups and years of NOTHING . For some reason the recent flare i had has kept me in the ocd loop for a Year now. Its just very confusing because on one hand, im used to having to deal with this but then on the other its sticking a lot longer than im used to? It feels constant like background noise. So while im not anxious about the theme or sensations im constantly aware of them… sometimes they drag me down, sometimes they dont but i guess im trying to hear other peoples experience because i feel like if i was truly “over it” they wouldnt ever drag me down… does this make sense 🤣
@Nica This is very true my main issue with my ocd is the “groinal response” the thoughts and images I’ve learned to kinda put to the side but I’m mostly always focused on that tingling/false arousal feeling
@ThatOCDDude Same , almost like somatic ocd
I mean I still get anxious by them and don’t want them but I don’t break out into full panic attacks anymore. I kinda just have the feeling a try to move on
@ThatOCDDude Right there with ya , i just get like annoyed/upset about them 💩 so im curious if this is just what it will forever be , or if im doing something wrong in order to truly get over them
@Anonymous I’m trying to figure it out also, i had bad checking compulsions before and I’ve now tried to ignore it such as checking for increased blood flow down there or arousal. I just got diagnosed at 26. It all hit me really hard like 8 months ago out of the blue
Nope, they haven't disappeared. Although I've already accepted the fact that I am going to have to live with these thoughts my entire life. It was actually one of the first things my therapist mentioned to me -that there is no magical wand that can make our OCD go away-. Despite how annoying and irritating my OCD can become, I've learned, (and am still learning new ways), how to deal with the thoughts and tone down the anxiety/stress that might be caused from my OCD. Like others below have said, I sometimes might still get a little anxious or upset, but I am 90% of the time able to deal with it and smack my OCD right back. In the times where I mentally stumble or happen to exacerbate my stress, I am at least able to calm myself down and remind myself of what I learned in therapy. Prior to therapy, I would just spiral and keep spiraling, dealing with constant stress headaches and anxiety nearly everyday. Anyways, that's just my own experience :) I am still learning and don't consider myself "fully recovered"; I actually have an OCD Conqueror tag but am hesitant to wear it. I've definitely made big progress with therapy though!
I was at a point I didn’t got them anymore, I worked that on therapy about exposing to that feeling and not tried to analize it. I had a relapse and then they came back for a while, and now even if I’m still not at my best, I haven’t feel them. Really weird haha So idk it’s something I don’t understand that much. But I remember having groinal responses since I was young, for example, if I got to the doctor and they need to check my body, if I had to change clothes in front of someone, even when I was alone just in my underwear haha So I think it’s pretty normal for ocd sufferers, and I think it doesn’t necessarily means something.
Hi guys. I'm asking for help on different ways of approaching groinal responses. Whenever I have intrusive thoughts, like really bad ones, I can feel my heartbeat "down there". I used to always associate it with arousal so now I just feel like I like thinking about the intrusive thoughts I've had about POCD and other stuff. It makes me take a shower everytime to "clean" myself but I need help because it's exhausting. Does a heartbeat down there always mean arousal? Do I make it happen because I just think "don't happen" a thousand times in my head?
Can testing for groinal responses cause them to happen? For example i will think of an intrusive thought in the past or create a fake scenario in my head and i will start to feel something down there every time. It’s it a learned response for the trama of this thoughts? Or i’m an actually a P. Dose anyone else experience this with POCD or should i look into get more help?
Hi everyone, I wanted to reach out to see if anyone else has experienced something similar with OCD and intrusive thoughts. I’ve been struggling during moments of intimacy because intrusive thoughts, particularly ones related to POCD, feel so ‘sticky’—like they’re all I can picture. Even though I really want the thoughts to go away, they persist, and I’ve been trying not to avoid intimacy because of them. However, that makes me feel like I’m somehow ‘enjoying’ the thoughts or images, which I really dislike. It’s like my brain is playing this awful trick, and it’s leaving me feeling confused and gross. I guess I’m supposed to not let the thoughts bother me and continue as if nothing’s wrong, but I’m scared that by doing so, I’m almost training myself to get off to them or something. This fear makes it so hard to trust myself in those moments, and it’s been overwhelming. If anyone else has been through this, how do you handle it?
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