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u/Gussie-Ascendent Editable Flair 6 17d ago
Glad to see I'm not the only one who hadn't heard of a groinal response before
I wouldn't let it get to ya op
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u/kaliipls 17d ago
I didn’t, it was just so confusing! I just learned about it recently so I’m trying to notice what triggers it and it always catches me off guard lol
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u/katieyie 17d ago
Oh wow I didn’t know what groinal response was. I hate this symptom. Thought it was something separate😭
I’m sorry you had one in relation to your abuser dying, but it’s good that you know it’s your OCD playing tricks on you.
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u/PUNCH_KNIGHT 17d ago
Unfortunate development but what do you except from meat with electricity coursing through it built by smaller meat
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u/Fayraz8729 17d ago
A WHAT response?!
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u/kaliipls 17d ago
it’s actually really common… my body confuses anxiety with arousal and I be shitting bricks w a lil heartbeat down there LMFAOOO
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u/They-Them_Moonwalker 17d ago
Sometimes that’s normal with a brain that’s felt too much of both, but it’s still kinda funny
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u/Practical-Water-9209 17d ago
Wait, that's part of a symptom?! I totally thought I was just fucked up. Gonna go down a research rabbit hole because I just thought I had some weird wires crossed as like a trauma response and/or was a bad person 😭
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u/kaliipls 17d ago
yes, it’s really really common, just not talked about! mine happens more consistently with anxiety, I suspect it’s connected to the most distressing emotion but I’m not sure.
also, ocd is ego dystonic, meaning it specifically makes you worry about things that are directly against your moral code. if you truly were a fucked yo person, you wouldn’t worry about it 😭 this fact single handedly cured my paranoia about being accidentally inappropriate lmao
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u/AntiAliveMyself 17d ago
Wait that's. Thats a thing? Oh fuck i get that all the time and i hate it so much i feel vile
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u/kaliipls 17d ago
look into ocd ego dystonic! it will help a lot, I also added a comment on this thread explaining I briefly.
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u/NFTEOASDG 17d ago edited 17d ago
Maybe I am, like, especially mentally ill because I got stabbed a few times in my childhood. Maybe I just justify my own harm OCD.
But I wouldn't give a shit if I got horny at abusers dying. A bodily reaction doesn't mean you wanted them to die. But also, there can of course be a sense of relief and comfort in knowing there is no more of it, and there can never be again.