Understanding OCD Types
OCD manifests in various forms. Explore detailed information about each subtype to better understand your experience.
📚 Comprehensive Content
Each OCD type includes overview, obsessions, compulsions, triggers, symptoms, real-life examples, and treatment considerations.
🎯 Subtype-Specific
Information is tailored to each OCD subtype, not generic. Find what specifically applies to your experience.
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Each page includes resources to find therapists, support groups, and additional educational materials.
Explore OCD Subtypes
Checking OCD
Complete guide to Checking OCD including obsessions about safety, compulsive checking behaviors, treatment options, and recovery strategies.
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Contamination OCD
Complete guide to Contamination OCD including fear of germs, cleaning compulsions, treatment options, and recovery strategies.
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Existential OCD
Complete guide to Existential OCD including philosophical obsessions, reality doubts, and ERP treatment for existential anxiety.
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False Memory OCD
Guide to False Memory OCD including obsessions about fabricated memories and recovery strategies.
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Harm OCD
Complete guide to Harm OCD, including violent intrusive thoughts, symptoms, treatment with ERP therapy, and recovery strategies.
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Health OCD (Illness Anxiety)
Guide to Health OCD including obsessions about illness, health anxiety, and recovery strategies.
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Intrusive Thoughts OCD
Learn about Intrusive Thoughts OCD, symptoms, triggers, ERP therapy, and recovery strategies to manage unwanted thoughts and anxiety.
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Magical Thinking OCD
Guide to Magical Thinking OCD including obsessions about thoughts causing harm and superstitious compulsions.
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Moral Scrupulosity OCD
Guide to Moral Scrupulosity OCD including obsessions about moral and religious perfectionism.
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Perfectionism OCD
Guide to Perfectionism OCD including obsessions about mistakes, perfectionist compulsions, and recovery strategies.
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Pure O (Primarily Obsessional OCD)
Complete guide to Pure O OCD including internal obsessions, mental compulsions, treatment strategies, and recovery.
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Real Event OCD
Guide to Real Event OCD including obsessions about actual past events and compulsive analysis.
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Religious OCD (Scrupulosity)
Complete guide to Religious OCD (Scrupulosity), including obsessions about faith, compulsive prayer, treatment with ERP, and recovery.
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Responsibility OCD
Guide to Responsibility OCD including obsessions about responsibility for preventing harm.
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ROCD (Relationship OCD)
Complete guide to ROCD including doubts about relationships, ERP treatment, partner communication, and recovery strategies.
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Sensorimotor OCD
Guide to Sensorimotor OCD including obsessions about breathing, blinking, and swallowing.
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Sexual OCD
Comprehensive guide to Sexual OCD, including intrusive sexual thoughts, orientation obsessions, treatment options, and recovery strategies.
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Symmetry & Ordering OCD
Complete guide to Symmetry & Ordering OCD including obsessions about arrangement, ordering compulsions, and treatment options.
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Quick Questions
❓ What if I have multiple OCD subtypes?
Many people experience symptoms of multiple OCD subtypes. This is common and treatable. Each page provides specific information.
📖 How detailed is the content?
Very detailed. Each page includes 50+ specific examples, FAQs, real-life scenarios, and treatment considerations specific to that subtype.
🎓 Is this medically accurate?
Yes. Content is based on evidence-based understanding of OCD and includes information aligned with clinical guidelines.
💬 Should I talk to a therapist?
Yes. This is educational content. Professional mental health support is effective and recommended for OCD.
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Understanding your OCD type is the first step toward recovery.