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Q: How likely is it that patients get an erection during a pani
asked by: DoctorQuestion on March 5th, 2006
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.

Thanks


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Dr. Nikola Gjuzelov , MD
replied on April 18th, 2006
Anxiety & Stress Answer A779
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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