POCD - GROINAL RESPONSE, PLEASE HELP.

Hi forum.

I was hoping that someone could relate or give some advice.. I'm being very sad and anxious.

I'm a woman in my twenties and I'm going crazy over groinal responses, and I just want to hear if anybody is/has experienced the same thing.
I just get them to everything that has a slight relation to what I fear, could be a child, a teddybear, a child-voice, a toy or simply the word child. I always get super-anxious, whenever I feel this response.
I don't just get it when I check, it's like my mind registrate that their is something even before I see it and then I get the groinal response. I even can get it, if I see something I THINK for a second is a child, but it disapeers immidiately, when I see that it was something else.
My boyfriend says, that "not-ocd" people doesn't go around and get groinal response to what they are attracted to all the time.
Is it really possible, that I can have linked this subject so much to sex, that I will get these responses as a reflex? :S The groinal response makes it feel very real, even though that I have no wish or no dream about being with a child, as well as no attraction! I'm really stressed about it, and think about it 24/7..

I will add that I have been ruminating and checking for almost a year about this now, and I have had the fear for many more years, just not this intense.

Hello,

don't beat yourself up over this. It seems to be veeery normal for people with POCD to experience this, I heard of it often. And your boyfriend is right, you don't go around and get a groinal response everytime you see related to what you're attracted to.
It sounds logical to me that it's because you made a link between children and the subject and this is a reflex. I also heard this very often.

That pretty much happens to me and same sex (HOCD) that it distorts what is real or not.

Tanja: Thanks for the reply. That is of course what I wanna believe, but for every time it happens it takes me back to doubting.

Jdd: It's so horrible. I don't know what to do to get rid of them. Have you had any succes at any point? For about a week I was able to really accept that possibility of being, what I fear, and I experienced fewer and milder groinal responses, but now it's just the same $#%^ again.

I think what you did, accepting that there is a possibility that you are what you fear is the best way. And accepting that you get these groinal responses and not trying to analyse them.