Misophonia and OCD

After a full night without a minute of sleep, I definitely feel there is a link between misophonia and OCD. I have been diagnosed with both, and they both heighten my anxiety. Last night before bed I heard a sound that truly upset my misophonia, and in turn I now feel so wrong and dirty? I’m not sure if that makes sense, but I don’t feel as clean and sure of myself. I’ve tried exposure therapies but I don’t feel they have helped lessen the stress I get from these sounds. I’m still in stress hives at the moment, and I’ve tried lots of different distraction methods throughout the night (all unsuccessful since the sound is still stuck in my head and replaying). If anyone has any experience in this, please feel free to share. It would be greatly appreciated :)

Username: garden

Date posted: 75d ago

one of my close friends has misophonia and also shows some signs of ocd. so it would make sense! if it gives you some hope, mark freeman, who’s recovered from ocd and coaches others to do the same, has (/had) misophonia. he’s mentioned that it holds no power over him anymore. he can tolerate any sounds etc.

Username: Herenow32

Date posted: 75d ago

This does give me hope, thank you.

Username: mia bean

Date posted: 75d ago

I also have both and my therapist said there might be a correlation

Username: Mia Mia

Date posted: 75d ago

I have misophonia and ocd too

User type: Therapist

Username: Stacy Quick

Date posted: 75d ago

Ugg that is so hard, especially when you are losing sleep over it. Just know that you aren't alone in this battle. When you did ERP in the past was it with a specialist in OCD? I wonder if the ERP was too much or too intense and it needed to be dialed back a bit? Hard to say but sometimes that happens.