OCD
Clear, research-based guides to obsessive-compulsive disorder: symptoms, the OCD cycle, and evidence-based ways to break it.
OCD Reassurance Seeking: Why the Relief Never Lasts
Reassurance seeking is the one OCD compulsion other people can do for you. Here's why the relief fades within hours, how Google and Reddit quietly joined the loop, and what research says actually helps.
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Understanding and Overcoming “Not Just Right” Feelings in OCD
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Breaking the Cycle: A Cognitive Approach to Overcoming OCD
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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?
- It's just 'not right' !!!
- Feeling 'not just right'? RUN!
- I have to re-check that things are 'right'
- Only if you feel 'RIGHT', it is right
- I can endure 'not just right' feelings
- I face my 'not just right' feelings
- Feeling 'not right' is bearable
- Feeling 'right' is good, but not essential
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.
- I have to act on my 'not right' feelings
- Feeling 'not just right'? RUN!
- I have to re-check that things are 'right'
- I can't face feeling 'not right'
- I have to feel 'right' all the time
- Everything important I do, must feel 'just right'
- In life, you have to feel "right" about all decisions
- It's just 'not right' !!!
- Feelings are the 'truth' !!!
- Feeling 'not right' is unbearable
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 just right' feelings
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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