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  1. This is not accurate information. Misophonia is NOT a form of OCD. OCD is often a co-morbid disorder but not all, or even the majority of people with misophonia have OCD. It is believed to be a sound processing disorder that causes certain sounds to bypasses the cerebral cortex and stimulates the limbic system directly which in turn gives a range of emotional responses ranging from fight or flight instincts, disgust, or even sexual arousal. A physical response followed by an emotional one is set off by some sort of trigger sound which is neither an obsession nor a compulsion but a physical response to an external stimuli. No research has demonstrated that OCD like treatments are successful for misophonics in any way. Anecdotally, many people who have mistakenly been treated as OCD and undergone ERP treatments or desensitization techniques have suffered form PTSD as a result with trigger sounds worsening or increasing.
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