Category: OCD
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How to Deal With Intrusive OCD Thoughts Without Trying to Get Rid of Them
Intrusive thoughts can feel scary, confusing, and exhausting. They may show up as unwanted thoughts, images, urges, doubts, or “what if” questions that seem to come out of nowhere. For some people, they focus on harm, relationships, sexuality, religion, morality, health, contamination, or whether they are secretly a bad person. The content of the thought…
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5 OCD Themes/Subtypes: Moral (Scrupulosity), Contamination, and Others That Might Surprise You
OCD doesn’t always look the way people expect. A lot of the time, it doesn’t even look like OCD at all. It looks like overthinking. Like being careful. Like trying to be a good person, a good partner, a responsible human. But underneath it, there’s usually the same feeling: “I can’t/shouldn’t stop thinking about it.”…