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Explore the 5-column thought record, with an example and printable PDF, and learn why it should be used with care in OCD.

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Clinical source: Jesper Krogholt, clinical psychologist, licensed in Denmark, OCD specialist

Updated: 31 Jul 2026

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Cozmo Krogholt

Knowledge communicator

Article

Accused by your own thoughts

When a thought feels like an accusation, analysis, checking and the search for certainty can become an inner trial. There is a way back to the life already unfolding around you.

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Asbestos OCD

In asbestos OCD, doubt continues after the specific risk has been investigated. Building dates, dust, wind direction and possible contact routes are mapped to determine whether invisible fibres may have spread to clothing, a car, the home or other people. Daily life may gradually become governed by which buildings, materials and traces can be regarded as safe, even when there is no new information about exposure.

Ditte Mortensen

Psychologist licensed in Denmark · PhD

Article

Autism, ADHD and OCD: How do you know if there is more going on than OCD?

When OCD appears alongside signs of ADHD or autism, the picture can become unclear. This article explains differences, overlap and signs that something more than OCD may be involved.

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Checking OCD

In checking OCD, checking may concern doors and appliances or feelings, thoughts, memories and bodily sensations. The check is intended to create certainty but may make the experience less clear and the memory less convincing. Checking may expand from a single action into long sequences because every check creates new questions about whether it was performed or remembered correctly.

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Chemical OCD

In Chemical OCD, residues, dose and possible exposure routes are investigated far beyond the immediate situation. A cleaning product, battery or distant smell may lead to research, washing and mapping the people and objects to which the substance might have been transferred. The threshold for safety readily shifts because even a highly unlikely transfer can feel unacceptable when the imagined consequence is serious.

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Contamination OCD

Contamination OCD is broader than fear of germs and handwashing. Doubt may centre on picking up contamination, spreading one's own bodily traces or protecting clean zones. Washing, barriers and rules about touching can then play an increasing part in everyday life. The rules may gradually spread from particular situations to the home, relationships and freedom of movement as the person tries to maintain safety at every step.

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Death OCD

In death OCD, death, non-existence or a possible afterlife become questions that feel necessary to solve. Mental images, philosophical analysis and research are used to seek certainty about something no one can settle completely. Attempts to find the right explanation may briefly ease the distress while making the question even more central and difficult to leave open.

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OCD basics

DSM-5-TR and OCD

Learn how DSM-5-TR describes OCD, what the criteria mean in practice, and how insight, tic-related OCD and ICD-11 fit into clinical assessment.

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Clinical source: Jesper Krogholt, clinical psychologist, licensed in Denmark, OCD specialist

Updated: 31 Jul 2026

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Eating and Food OCD

In eating and food OCD, food choices, preparation and meals are governed by repeated checks and rules. Ingredients, expiry dates and possible consequences are assessed to create certainty about health, contamination, morality or responsibility. The pattern may restrict variety, spontaneity and shared meals because every decision must first satisfy an increasingly extensive set of safety rules.

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Emotional contamination in OCD

In emotional contamination, the fear is not physical infection but acquiring traits, identity, morality, mood or misfortune through contact and associations. People, places, words and objects may therefore be avoided or treated as contaminated. Checking can spread through long chains of association, so that more and more of everyday life becomes associated with what the person is trying to keep at a distance.

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Exercise OCD

In exercise OCD, training is governed by doubt about performance, effect, bodily signals or future preparedness. Exercises, numbers and bodily sensations are checked, while a rest day may feel like a loss of strength, health or safety. Exercise may become inflexible and difficult to adapt to illness, injury or other needs because deviations are treated as risks that must be compensated for.

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Existential OCD

In existential OCD, open questions about reality, identity, free will, life choices, death or meaning are treated as problems that require complete certainty. Analysis and information seeking rarely provide a lasting endpoint. The more the question is analysed, the more caveats emerge, and ordinary uncertainty may begin to feel like evidence that something crucial has been missed.

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Treatment and methods

Exposure and response prevention

Exposure and response prevention (ERP) is a central method in OCD treatment. Learn what ERP means, why response prevention matters and how exercises are planned.

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Clinical source: Jesper Krogholt, clinical psychologist, licensed in Denmark, OCD specialist

Updated: 8 Aug 2026

OCD type

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False Memory OCD

In False Memory OCD, ordinary gaps in memory are examined repeatedly. Mental reconstruction, questioning other people and checking bodily responses can create new details that then feel like possible evidence of something that may have happened. The uncertainty therefore extends beyond the event to whether the memory, a feeling or the absence of a feeling can be trusted.

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Symptoms and mechanisms

Family accommodation

Family accommodation in OCD is when relatives help, reassure or change routines to reduce distress. Learn how well-meant help can maintain OCD symptoms over time.

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Clinical source: Jesper Krogholt, clinical psychologist, licensed in Denmark, OCD specialist

Updated: 8 Aug 2026

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Jesper Krogholt

OCD specialist · Clinical psychologist

Journal

Go on the offensive against OCD

Many people have played by OCD’s rules for far too long. The aim is not to defend against OCD more effectively, but to change the game and go on the offensive.

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Harm OCD

In Harm OCD, unwanted thoughts, images or impulses about harm are examined for what they might reveal about intention, loss of control or moral character. Checking feelings, mentally reviewing events, neutralising and avoiding situations are intended to prove that the person is not dangerous. The thoughts are unwanted, but the very attempt to control what they mean can make them feel more present and more serious to the person.

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Health OCD

In health OCD, bodily or mental signs are examined to determine whether they indicate physical or mental illness. Body checking, research and reassurance seeking may settle the question briefly until a new sensation or doubt opens it again. Examinations and answers may clarify the current concern, but when the aim is complete certainty, doubt often moves to a new symptom or explanation.

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Hit-and-Run OCD

In Hit-and-Run OCD, a bump, a sound or a brief glance away from the road can trigger fear of having hit someone. The person may drive back, inspect the car or reconstruct the route, but checking often makes sensory impressions and memories less certain. Another check may bring a moment of certainty while reinforcing the idea that every sound or unclear memory requires further investigation.

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OCD basics

ICD-11 and OCD: the diagnostic system explained

ICD-11 is WHO's international disease classification. Learn what ICD-11 means for OCD, how the criteria are understood, and why comorbidity, insight and clinical assessment still matter.

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Clinical source: Jesper Krogholt, clinical psychologist, licensed in Denmark, OCD specialist

Updated: 31 Jul 2026

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Symptoms and mechanisms

Intrusive thoughts

Intrusive thoughts are unwanted thoughts, images or impulses. Learn how common they are, and when they can become obsessions in OCD.

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Clinical source: Jesper Krogholt, clinical psychologist, licensed in Denmark, OCD specialist

Updated: 31 Jul 2026

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Jesper Krogholt

OCD specialist · Clinical psychologist

Research news

Intrusive thoughts are common across cultures

An international study shows that unwanted intrusive thoughts occur across cultures. This research news item separates the study findings from the OCD specialist’s clinical perspective.

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Just-Right OCD

In Just-Right OCD, a movement, sound, thought or touch feels wrong, unfinished or out of balance. The person repeats, corrects or starts again in search of a particular sense of completion that rarely lasts. The action is often less about preventing a specific catastrophe than about removing a persistent physical or mental sense that something remains unfinished.

OCD type

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Magical Thinking OCD

In Magical Thinking OCD, a thought, word, number or small movement can feel connected with something dangerous despite the absence of a realistic cause. Repetition, avoidance and mental neutralisation are used to undo the connection or avert the feared harm. Even when the person recognises that the link is not logical, the sense of responsibility may feel too great to refrain from the ritual and simply wait to see what happens.

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Symptoms and mechanisms

Mental contamination

Mental contamination is the feeling of being dirty or tainted inside without physical contamination. Learn about the experience and its significance in OCD.

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Clinical source: Jesper Krogholt, clinical psychologist, licensed in Denmark, OCD specialist

Updated: 8 Aug 2026

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Meta-OCD

In Meta-OCD, OCD itself becomes the subject of doubt. The person may try to decide whether a thought really is an obsession, whether the diagnosis fits or whether recovery is genuine, while analysis and information seeking become new ways of pursuing certainty. Treatment, progress and ordinary fluctuations may then be scrutinised as evidence, rather than leaving room for the person to continue living with uncertainty.

OCD type

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MeToo OCD

In MeToo OCD, fear of having violated someone or crossed a boundary keeps returning. Conversations, looks, touches and messages are replayed, while the person turns to rules, witnesses and other people's assessments in search of a definitive judgement. The overriding aim is to rule out every possible misinterpretation of the past, even though new perspectives and moral nuances make such certainty impossible.

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Moral OCD

In Moral OCD, doubt about guilt, responsibility, intentions and character keeps returning. Mental review, confession, checking feelings and comparisons are intended to establish whether the person is good enough, but rarely provide lasting clarity. Everyday mistakes and ambiguous situations may become moral tests in which even minor caveats feel decisive to the person's sense of self.

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Symptoms and mechanisms

Negative reinforcement in OCD

Negative reinforcement makes an OCD response more likely when it is followed by relief. Learn the difference between reinforcement, punishment, escape and avoidance.

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Clinical source: Jesper Krogholt, clinical psychologist, licensed in Denmark, OCD specialist

Updated: 31 Jul 2026

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Symptoms and mechanisms

Obsessions and compulsions

Obsessions and compulsions are central OCD symptoms. Learn how intrusive thoughts, mental rituals, avoidance and reassurance can keep OCD going.

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Clinical source: Jesper Krogholt, clinical psychologist, licensed in Denmark, OCD specialist

Updated: 31 Jul 2026

Jesper Krogholt

OCD specialist · Clinical psychologist

Article

OCD around childbirth

OCD around childbirth can involve frightening, unwanted thoughts. This article explains why the distress is often misunderstood or remains hidden.

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OCD-Related Doubt About Gender Identity

When OCD centres on doubt about gender identity, feelings, memories, bodily reactions and gender expression are examined in search of a definitive answer. Comparisons and repeated checks are meant to provide certainty but can make identity feel less clear. The theme can occur in people of any gender identity; the central issue is the demand for certainty and repeated checking, not the answer the person reaches.

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Jesper Krogholt

OCD specialist · Clinical psychologist

Journal

OCD, overthinking and social anxiety

What is interesting about OCD, overthinking and social anxiety is not simply that they often occur together. They can share the same underlying mechanism: an attempt to achieve certainty through thought, analysis and control.

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Optimisation OCD

In Optimisation OCD, even good solutions keep being measured against the possibility of something better. Research, rankings and calculations are intended to prevent waste or regret, but can delay a decision and reopen choices that seemed settled. The pattern may affect purchases, work, health and the use of time because almost any decision can be measured against alternatives that have yet to be explored.

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Paedophilia OCD (P-OCD)

In P-OCD, unwanted thoughts, memories and bodily sensations are examined as possible evidence of sexual interest in children. Bodily checking, mental review, research and avoidance are intended to disprove the fear, but can make the doubt more prominent. The thoughts are unwanted and conflict with the person's values, but trying to prove this with complete certainty can keep attention fixed on the theme.

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Perfectionism OCD

In Perfectionism OCD, it becomes difficult to decide when a task is good enough. Repeated reading, corrections and overpreparation are intended to remove every possible error, even when the result already serves its purpose and no longer improves. The time involved can grow considerably because every improvement reveals another possible flaw, so finishing feels like accepting a risk.

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Permanence OCD

In Permanence OCD, the transition from provisional to finished becomes particularly difficult. Measuring, documenting and temporary solutions are intended to prevent an irreversible mistake, while decisions are postponed or reopened to prevent later doubt. The pattern may affect purchases, interior choices, tattoos, documents or other choices where the possibility of making changes later feels inadequate.

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Postpartum OCD

Postpartum OCD can focus on the very area in which care and responsibility feel greatest. Intrusive thoughts about harm, responsibility or contamination may lead to checking the baby, avoiding care tasks and repeated attempts to obtain complete certainty. The pattern can create distance from the situations in which the person most wants to be present, even though the thoughts do not indicate wishes or intentions.

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Pure C in OCD

In Pure C, a visible or mental compulsion does not necessarily arise from a clearly formulated fear. Repetition, evening up and correction may instead be used to alter a bodily urge, sensory discomfort or sense of incompleteness. The aim is often to make a sensation feel completely settled, so the same action may continue even when the person expects no external consequence.

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Pure O in OCD

Pure O describes OCD in which intrusive thoughts are prominent while compulsions occur mainly as mental actions. Rumination, internal reassurance, checking feelings and mental review may be almost invisible to others while sustaining doubt. The absence of obvious rituals therefore does not mean that compulsions are absent; the effort to achieve certainty simply takes place in the mind.

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Real Event OCD

In Real Event OCD, the person returns to an actual event to determine motive, guilt and character. Mental review, confessions and self-punishment are intended to produce a definitive moral judgement, but each answer tends to give rise to another doubt. Because the event is real, doubt may seem more legitimate, while the need for complete resolution still follows the repetitive pattern of OCD.

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Relationship OCD

In Relationship OCD, doubt about love, a partner's qualities or the relationship's future is answered with feeling checks, comparisons and mental review. Checking is meant to determine whether the relationship is right, but often makes feelings less clear. This may lead to distance, repeated conversations or new tests of the relationship, even though the aim is to protect it from a wrong decision.

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Symptoms and mechanisms

Relief in OCD

What does relief mean in OCD? Learn why compulsions and mental rituals can bring a short-term sense of safety or completion without being the same as recovery.

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Clinical source: Jesper Krogholt, clinical psychologist, licensed in Denmark, OCD specialist

Updated: 31 Jul 2026

OCD type

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Religious OCD

Religious OCD concerns the content of doubt, not whether the person is religious. Faith, sin, prayer and spiritual consequences may be checked repeatedly through repetition, mental neutralisation and seeking religious certainty. Rituals may resemble ordinary religious practice but are driven by a demand to perform or understand the practice in exactly the right way and without moral risk.

OCD type

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Rumination OCD

In rumination OCD, analysis, mental review and feeling checks are used to seek certainty about a thought, feeling or event. The answer rarely lasts, because a new caveat or an overlooked detail soon reopens the investigation. It may feel like problem-solving, but the analysis has no clear criterion for when enough thinking has been done, so it continues.

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Saving and Discarding OCD

In Saving and Discarding OCD, objects, papers and digital files may be kept to prevent guilt, loss, contamination or an irreversible mistake. Repeated sorting, photographing and reconsidering are meant to make discarding safe, but keep the decision open. The defining issue is not the number of possessions, but that discarding feels like a decision carrying great responsibility and must wait until all doubt has been removed.

OCD type

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Schizophrenia OCD

In schizophrenia OCD, thoughts, sensory experiences and one's sense of reality are monitored for signs of psychosis. Background sounds, unusual thoughts or brief moments of unreality are tested repeatedly, and the checking can make experiences feel more unfamiliar. The fear often concerns the possibility of losing control rather than a fixed belief, but repeated tests may increase the sense of unfamiliarity.

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Self-Monitoring OCD

In self-monitoring OCD, attention shifts from the situation to the person's own thoughts, feelings, voice or body language. Continuous checking is meant to ensure that the response appears natural and genuine, but makes it harder to remain present. Conversations and social situations may then feel artificial because attention continually shifts between taking part and assessing one's own performance.

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Self-Punishment OCD

In self-punishment OCD, pleasure, rest or care become conditional on feeling good enough or sufficiently remorseful. Deprivation, self-criticism and unnecessarily harsh rules are used to restore a moral balance, but the question of punishment returns. Even after deprivation, doubt may return as a question of whether the punishment was severe enough, sincere enough or may ever be allowed to end.

OCD type

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Sensorimotor OCD

In sensorimotor OCD, breathing, swallowing, blinking or other automatic bodily processes become difficult to let recede into the background. The person monitors, controls or tests the process to remove it from awareness, which often makes it more noticeable. Paradoxically, trying not to notice the process requires the person to monitor it, so attention remains fixed on it.

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Sexual obsessions in OCD

Sexual obsessions may concern assault, incest, boundaries or inappropriate reactions. Bodily sensations, gaze direction and past situations are checked as possible evidence, while mental review and avoidance maintain the doubt. The content is unwanted, and checking is intended to protect others and the person's sense of self, but it also makes the monitored reactions more prominent.

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Sexual Orientation OCD

In sexual orientation OCD, attraction, memories and bodily reactions are checked to gain certainty about orientation. Comparisons, tests and reviews of the past may make doubt more prominent regardless of the person's orientation. The theme can affect people of any orientation; the problem is not a particular orientation, but the demand for an answer without any remaining doubt.

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Stress OCD

In stress OCD, sleep, heart rate, concentration and mood become possible warnings of burnout or collapse. Measurements, optimisation and repeated assessments are used to prevent stress, but ordinary fluctuations continually call for another check. Prevention may itself become stressful because rest, activity and work are continually assessed according to whether they increase or reduce a future risk.

OCD type

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Suicidal Obsessions in OCD

With suicidal obsessions, unwanted thoughts, images or urges about suicide are examined as possible signs of a hidden wish or future loss of control. Feeling checks, risk assessments and avoidance are used to determine what the thoughts mean. The thoughts are typically unwanted and frightening, but suicide risk must always be assessed for the individual rather than from the theme label alone.

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Symmetry OCD

In symmetry OCD, an uneven position, unequal bodily sensation or broken sequence may feel intensely wrong. The person arranges, measures, evens up or repeats to create balance until the ritual determines when it is possible to move on. The ritual may be guided by sight, the body or an internal rule and ends only when the sensation fits, rather than when the task is practically complete.

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Models and tools

The cognitive diamond

The cognitive diamond is a model in cognitive behavioural therapy used to understand the interaction between thoughts, feelings, body and action in a specific situation.

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Clinical source: Jesper Krogholt, clinical psychologist, licensed in Denmark, OCD specialist

Updated: 31 Jul 2026

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Symptoms and mechanisms

The Three-Part Functional Model of OCD

The three-part functional model of OCD distinguishes between retrospective, reactive and proactive functions. Learn what OCD strategies are trying to achieve.

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Clinical source: Jesper Krogholt, clinical psychologist, licensed in Denmark, OCD specialist

Updated: 31 Jul 2026

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Tic-Related OCD

Tic-related OCD means that a person with OCD has, or has previously had, a tic disorder. Tics and compulsions may be clearly separate, affect each other or occur within the same action, without the OCD theme necessarily being about tics. Distinguishing between them therefore requires attention to bodily urges, fear, rules and function, rather than looking only at how the movement appears.

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Jesper Krogholt

OCD specialist · Clinical psychologist

Article

To accept or not to accept

Acceptance in OCD treatment is not about accepting what an obsession says. It is about meeting the thought in a way that stops OCD from deciding what happens next.

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Tourettic OCD

In Tourettic OCD, a movement or sound has both tic-like and compulsive features. A bodily urge may become bound to rules about force, rhythm, symmetry or precision, so the action must be repeated until it feels exactly right. The pattern may be difficult to distinguish from both tics and classic compulsions because bodily urges and rules about correctness occur together.

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Jesper Krogholt

OCD specialist · Clinical psychologist

Journal

When exposure for OCD is misunderstood

What matters is not how uncomfortable an exposure can be made, but whether it is carefully targeted and helps break the OCD cycle rather than becoming part of it.

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Jesper Krogholt

OCD specialist · Clinical psychologist

Article

When OCD tries to prevent future doubt

Checking can become an attempt to create evidence for later. This article explores how monitoring and memory evidence can strengthen doubt and keep OCD going.

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x-OCD

x-OCD describes presentations in which the theme is personal, changes or overlaps several named types. The doubt and the visible or mental actions recur, and for some people the search for exactly the right type label becomes a compulsion in itself. The label can be useful when a theme does not fit a fixed category, but treatment still focuses on the function of doubt, avoidance and compulsions.

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Cozmo Krogholt

Accused by your own thoughts

Asbestos OCD

Ditte Mortensen

Autism, ADHD and OCD: How do you know if there is more going on than OCD?

Checking OCD

Chemical OCD

Contamination OCD

Death OCD

DSM-5-TR and OCD

Eating and Food OCD

Emotional contamination in OCD

Exercise OCD

Existential OCD

Exposure and response prevention

False Memory OCD

Family accommodation

Jesper Krogholt

Go on the offensive against OCD

Harm OCD

Health OCD

Hit-and-Run OCD

ICD-11 and OCD: the diagnostic system explained

Intrusive thoughts

Jesper Krogholt

Intrusive thoughts are common across cultures

Just-Right OCD

Magical Thinking OCD

Mental contamination

Meta-OCD

MeToo OCD

Moral OCD

Negative reinforcement in OCD

Obsessions and compulsions

Jesper Krogholt

OCD around childbirth

OCD-Related Doubt About Gender Identity

Jesper Krogholt

OCD, overthinking and social anxiety

Optimisation OCD

Paedophilia OCD (P-OCD)

Perfectionism OCD

Permanence OCD

Postpartum OCD

Pure C in OCD

Pure O in OCD

Real Event OCD

Relationship OCD

Relief in OCD

Religious OCD

Rumination OCD

Saving and Discarding OCD

Schizophrenia OCD

Self-Monitoring OCD

Self-Punishment OCD

Sensorimotor OCD

Sexual obsessions in OCD

Sexual Orientation OCD

Stress OCD

Suicidal Obsessions in OCD

Symmetry OCD

The cognitive diamond

The Three-Part Functional Model of OCD

Tic-Related OCD

Jesper Krogholt

To accept or not to accept

Tourettic OCD

Jesper Krogholt

When exposure for OCD is misunderstood