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Articles from the ocd.app team on living with OCD: how it works, practical CBT skills, and how short daily exercises can help.
Understanding Pediatric OCD and Anxiety: A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach to Family Resilience
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) in children presents unique challenges that can greatly affect their school performance and family dynamics. This article delves into the cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) approach, which emphasizes understanding maladaptive beliefs, nurturing resilience,…
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Understanding Pregnancy and Postpartum OCD: A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach to Maternal Mental Wellbeing
Pregnancy and postpartum periods can be overwhelming, often exacerbating conditions like OCD. Many mothers face intrusive thoughts including…
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Navigating Identity and Meaning with CBT: Understanding OCD and Existential Crises
Exploring the intersection of OCD and existential identity crises illuminates profound questions about life’s meaning. This article delves…
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Navigating the Digital Maze: Understanding Technology OCD and Its Impact on Mental Wellbeing
In our increasingly digital world, challenges such as technology OCD, digital checking, and social media obsessions can significantly…
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Navigating Nighttime Challenges with CBT
Sleep challenges are often intertwined with obsessive thoughts and bedtime rituals, leading to insomnia and anxiety at night.…
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Navigating the Maze of Eating Disorders and OCD: A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach
Eating disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) often intertwine, impacting individuals’ mental health and daily functioning. This article explores…
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Navigating the Fear: Overcoming Driving Anxiety and OCD Through CBT
Driving can be a source of anxiety for many, manifesting in fears of accidents, compulsive checking, and obsessive…
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Understanding Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors Through a Cognitive-Behavioral Lens
Body-focused repetitive behaviors such as trichotillomania and skin picking represent significant challenges for many. This article delves into…
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Understanding Hoarding and Its Emotional Roots through CBT
This article delves into hoarding tendencies, the struggle to discard possessions, and the emotional attachment to objects. By…
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Understanding Orderliness OCD and Its Impact on Mental Wellbeing
Orderliness OCD manifests in the need for exactness and perfectionist organization, driven by symmetry obsessions and arranging compulsions.…
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These are real statements from the ocd.app app. For each one, decide: is it OCD thinking that keeps the cycle going, or a helpful thought to practise?
- I want to always be certain
- Uncertainty is unmanageable
- I need absolute certainty
- I can't tolerate not knowing
- I can endure not knowing
- I can withstand uncertainty
- Feeling uncertain is a natural part of life
- I crush my fear of uncertainty
Exposure and response prevention (ERP) means facing the thoughts OCD makes you avoid, without doing the ritual. Pick a thought from the app that makes you uneasy, then stay with it.
- Uncertainty is unbearable
- I can't face uncertainty
- I can't tolerate not knowing
- I have to know everything
- Without control - I'm useless
- I want to always be certain
- Uncertainty is overpowering
- There is no joy without control
- I must always be certain
- I must have complete control over everything
An urge is a wave: it rises, peaks and passes, even when you do nothing. Breathe with the circle for 40 seconds — in for 4, out for 6 — and let the urge be there without acting on it.
I can endure not knowing
Educational practice, not therapy or a diagnosis. More exercises from the app · Practise daily in the ocd.app app →
Practise what you read, a few minutes a day
The ocd.app app turns these ideas into short daily exercises, built with clinical psychologists and backed by 22 peer-reviewed studies.
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