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I kept my eyebrows raised all the time, so I had no problem seeing.

Jesus, that sounds exhausting. It's no wonder you had headaches.

I'm not qualified to offer advice. I just want to wish you well. Whatever therapies or drugs you try or are trying, I hope they help. Internet hugs, if you want them.

I've read and heard here and there that women are a surprisingly large percentage of anime porn consumers. I dated a girl who was into tentacle porn and said a lot of her female friends really like it, too.

• Do we know how or why it happens, or under what conditions it's most likely to occur?

• I've read that women can show physical signs of arousal (i.e. when shown pornography) without being consciously aroused. Is this similar?

Edit: /u/ChildTherapist already answered some of this, so she probably won't answer mine.

Edit #2: /u/ChildTherapist is a champ. Thanks for answering.

Thanks. I agree completely. I've done a lot of therapy, but the most productive, in some ways, was group therapy. That was where I learned that giving advice -- especially if you're not an expert -- is often the worst way to offer help in these sorts of situations. At lot of times, it can be damaging, and it can cause the other person to shut down, truncating the emotional process they're asking you to help them with. Just listening with caring, understanding and lack of judgment is usually much more helpful and healing. The rest is, yeah, for the experts.