Can shrinking penis be related to fight/flight/freeze response?
Hi guys,
I'm a survivor of extremely traumatic childhood and young adulthood, which left me with entire collection of psychological and physiological symptoms. I'm in my early thirties today.
I found little to no help in therapies so far, but I also educate myself through books. A few years ago I learned about C-PTSD and it looks like this is what I experience, which is typical for people who suffered too much at their young age.
Today, I'd like to ask a question which is about just one of my symptoms and is a bit embarrassing to me. So, it looks like I'm stuck in a fight/flight/freeze response almost 100% of the time. One of my physical symptoms is my penis shrinking without any clear reason. It behaves like if I were in a cold water, except there is no cold and no water I sometimes see it shrinking and going back to normal. I wouldn't call it a problem if it wasn't the case that it's shrunk almost all the time. My erections are fine, usually not rock hard, but "it works". But when it's flaccid, my member is sometimes REALLY tiny. In the past it didn't shrink as often. When it's not shrunk, it looks perfectly normal. It's normal maybe 5% of the time now, or even less.
When it shrinks, it sometimes looks kinda dead too, like there was no blood enough to make it live. My testicles are super tight almost all the time too. This is all really embarrassing, because having such a small "package" takes all my self-confidence away. Especially that I know it's not what my penis is, it's not its natural state. I also want to assure you that it's not my mind playing games with me.
So I wanted to ask you guys if any of you experienced something like that too and if there's any known link between trauma or general anxiety and shrinking.
Thank you all in advance.
I'm a survivor of extremely traumatic childhood and young adulthood, which left me with entire collection of psychological and physiological symptoms. I'm in my early thirties today.
I found little to no help in therapies so far, but I also educate myself through books. A few years ago I learned about C-PTSD and it looks like this is what I experience, which is typical for people who suffered too much at their young age.
Today, I'd like to ask a question which is about just one of my symptoms and is a bit embarrassing to me. So, it looks like I'm stuck in a fight/flight/freeze response almost 100% of the time. One of my physical symptoms is my penis shrinking without any clear reason. It behaves like if I were in a cold water, except there is no cold and no water I sometimes see it shrinking and going back to normal. I wouldn't call it a problem if it wasn't the case that it's shrunk almost all the time. My erections are fine, usually not rock hard, but "it works". But when it's flaccid, my member is sometimes REALLY tiny. In the past it didn't shrink as often. When it's not shrunk, it looks perfectly normal. It's normal maybe 5% of the time now, or even less.
When it shrinks, it sometimes looks kinda dead too, like there was no blood enough to make it live. My testicles are super tight almost all the time too. This is all really embarrassing, because having such a small "package" takes all my self-confidence away. Especially that I know it's not what my penis is, it's not its natural state. I also want to assure you that it's not my mind playing games with me.
So I wanted to ask you guys if any of you experienced something like that too and if there's any known link between trauma or general anxiety and shrinking.
Thank you all in advance.