How likely is it that patients get an erection during a pani Posted: 03-05-06 17:03pm
I have been recently been diagnosed with
OD (Pure O) and i am working with a
therapist on certain issues.
I have been asked to get some information
on certain issues and was wondering if you
could give me some preofessional help.
The questions i need answering are
1. How likely is it to get an erection
during a panic attack?
2. During medical examinations with
Urologists what would be the average
percentage of men who get aroused during
examinations?
3. How likely is it that a human could
loose control of their body for 5-10
minutes, ie perform a series of "unwanted"
organised movements. I would be grateful
if you could tell me the biological
reasons of why or why not this might
happen.
Erections depend upon sexual desire.
During panic attacks, patients are not
usually mentally occupied with sexual
wishes...therefore, an erection does not
usually occu during such an episode.
During medical examinations, patients
might experience shame, therefore
inhibiting sexual desire, but not
necessarily. “Loosing control” of your
body for 5-10 minutes and “performing
unwanted organized movements” can be
caused by neurological or psychiatric
reasons. Epilepsy, for example, is such a
condition caused by a neurological cause.
In this case, actions during the
generalized epileptic attack are totally
uncontrolled and after the attack the
patient experiences amnesia. In some forms
of generalized epilepsy such as
“temporal epilepsy” the movements can
be very organized and to look like some
performance. Another reason for performing
unwanted organized movements can be
dissociative(hysteric) neurotic disorder.
In this disorder the movements are not
totally unwanted but they are more like
the expression of subconscious emotional
conflicts. After the “attack” the
patient has partial memory of the actions
he made during the attack.
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