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Those with retroactive jealousy OCD suffer from an immense fixation on their partner’s previous relationships that cause a painful level of jealousy, anxiety, and insecurity. Retroactive jealousy within a relationship is actually fairly common. We have all had momentary emotional blips where we find ourselves strangely curious about our partner’s past relationship. However, it’s when this curiosity grows into a relentless sense of jealousy, anxiety, and fixation that it can become destructive and negatively impact our relationships.

False Memory OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder) is a subtype of OCD that involves recurrent, persistent, and intrusive thoughts or doubts about past events or experiences.  These thoughts or doubts are often accompanied by strong feelings of guilt, shame, and anxiety about the experience, even when the person with OCD cannot be sure that the thoughts are rational or true. In False Memory OCD, a person may obsess over a memory or a thought that they believe is a true event from their past, but in reality, the memory is false or distorted. 

Sexual orientation OCD (SO-OCD) is an OCD subtype that is characterized by immense fears about an individual’s sexual orientation. This subtype was originally referred to as HOCD (homosexual OCD), but SO-OCD affects people of all sexual orientations. HOCD is now only used to describe those who very specifically struggle with homosexual obsessions. Those with SO-OCD are plagued with highly distressing intrusive thoughts and urges that make them doubt their true sexual orientation.

Suicidal obsessive-compulsive disorder is categorized by the terrifying and unwanted fears about killing oneself. Closely linked to Harm OCD, this subtype is sometimes called harm OCD with suicidal obsessions.  Although the fears of potentially harming oneself feel very real, suicidal OCD is actually driven by the desire to protect oneself from harm. Those with this subtype are no more likely to die by suicide than any other OCD subtype.

Harm OCD is a subtype of OCD that focuses on obsessions surrounding harm to self and/or harm to others. For people with OCD, harm thoughts evoke excessive feelings of shame due to the violent nature of the intrusive thoughts and the misunderstanding of OCD.  It is important that you understand that there is nothing to be ashamed of.  Harm obsessions can be all-consuming fears about our own safety or the safety of the people that the sufferer loves most.