Sometimes I wonder if ocd has been studied enough. Like how do they know these subtypes?? Are they masks for actually wanting whatever it is and then experiencing guilt? Did professionals make up soocd to get people to fear their sexuality/thoughts? And then the people will cover it up with ocd when it's actually denial ????? I know these are intrusive/doubting thoughts but I felt like sharing in case any of u relate

Wouldnt make sense for professionals make up soocd, because the treatment is to expose yourself to the situation and accept the possibility of the thought. That wouldn’t make a person more in denial. Also, gay people have soocd. So what would be the professionals main objective? To turn in the closet straight people into gay people and in the closet gay people into straight people ? Sounds like a weird and pointless treatment. Why would real pedophiles be trained to not be around children by the same professionals, and trained to be around children with people with ocd? You see the distorted logic that ocd creates? They know these subs types because they have conducted research that has shown consistent patterns through all ocd subtypes. A thought or feeling comes up, regardless of the theme, and then a feeling or thought comes after. The thought gets stuck, and the person tries to get rid of it through rituals either mental or physical. The thoughts get stuck because the mind has learned the thought to be a threat, and so it continues to solve the “problem.” But the problem can’t be solved, and so the relief the person seeks is by doing rituals. But studies show that when a person does not give in to compulsions, the fear is not reinforced. They have also noticed that people have different themes and sub types depending on the things they focus and fear the most. Soocd usually happens to people who value and are attached to their sexuality identity. ROCD are people who tend to value the idea of having a great relationship and are afraid of being trapped and stuck in a relationship that isn’t the one they want. So all ocd people face the same problem, they are afraid of something and they are looking for certainty. And so there minds gets stuck because there is none

I relate to these thoughts, it’s awful

i guess they know because the same tools (ERP for instance) can help with recovery and the nature of that recovery is: when people stop worrying about being x sexual orientation and the symptoms that led them to believe they might be lose their significance, the symptoms go away or are revealed to be normal behaviors for people not of x sexual orientation. you would assume that, when people accept that they may be x sexuality they would begin to exhibit more essential traits of that sexuality, but recovery from OCD works the opposite way.