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Right now, my only struggle is the issue of POCD arousal. It happens every single time, and it even occurs independently of anxiety, which makes it feel like I'm just making excuses for myself. I know I can't solve it this way, but what I want to ask you is this: It feels almost real. Making the distinction becomes practically impossible. Even before I knew this could be OCD, I couldn't make sense of it. There is no desire, but there is arousal, even when I don't feel anxious. The fact that this only happens with specific profiles is also terrifying. Could you explain this thoroughly? I mean, is there an actual mechanism for something like this? Or does this have no explanation within OCD? Also, are there actually other people who experience this without feeling conscious anxiety and still receive an OCD diagnosis?

Tea and Honey

Date posted: 4d

Conscious anxiety doesn't matter. You have to take it out of the equation. And groinals are common

uwıekofekdıdk

Date posted: 3d

@Tea and Honey this has been going on for a very long time, but for example, I don't have any fantasies. I'm really confused about this.

Tea and Honey

Date posted: 2d

@uwıekofekdıdk People on this app write about groinals often. I really think they need to be treated like intrusive thoughts--and this means that you do nothing to prevent them from coming, and you just ignore them when they appear. Let's talk about conscious anxiety... A lot of people with OCD think that they need some kind of feeling of disgust to go along with their intrusive thoughts in order to "prove" that they really didn't want that thought. But this is not true. If you demand that you have a feeling of disgust along with every intrusive thought, this is actually a COMPULSION. The real way to do OCD treatment is to actually do nothing about intrusive thoughts. You essentially ignore them. Anything you do to FIX intrusive thoughts is actually just a compulsion. Demanding of yourself to have a certain emotion attached to intrusive thoughts is a compulsion. You need to learn to let the intrusive and groinals just pass by without fighting them off or doing anything about them .

uwıekofekdıdk

Date posted: 2d

@Tea and Honey By the way, I noticed something. I think the fact that I get aroused every single time actually proves that this isn't natural. A real person truly couldn't have such a system without exception.

Tea and Honey

Date posted: 2d

@uwıekofekdıdk So true!

Tea and Honey

Date posted: 2d

@Tea and Honey It's OCD

Tea and Honey

Date posted: 2d

@uwıekofekdıdk Check out this post from NOCD https://api.treatmyocd.com/link/post/2630632

Tea and Honey

Date posted: 2d

@Tea and Honey It's all just OCD. You job is not to figure out it. Your job is not to fix it. This might sound counter-intuitive, but your job is to ALLOW the intrusive thoughts and groinals do whatever they do. They can stay there all day if they want. And then you need to move on with life as if the OCD never existed (even though the OCD is screaming inside of you that you need to figure it out).

uwıekofekdıdk

Date posted: Yesterday

@Tea and Honey I know this is going to sound cliché, but I don't think this kind of arousal exists. It feels purely sexual. It bothers me that I only get aroused by a specific profile. It's like there is no desire in my brain, but it also feels like I kind of enjoy it. What should I do? I'm really not sure if it's OCD.

Tea and Honey

Date posted: 19h

@uwıekofekdıdk Don't try to figure it out. Just ignore it. Your job is to keep living life and keep ignoring this stuff

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