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20/10/2026

How to make a family OCD plan

A family OCD plan doesn’t need to be complicated. Know what OCD asks for, agree what will change, and decide what you’ll say before panic takes over.



This content is for psychoeducation only and is not therapy, diagnosis, or individual advice. If you are struggling, please speak to a qualified professional or your local mental health service. If you are in crisis or feel at risk, contact emergency services or your local crisis team.
If you want to explore therapy with me, please visit my website - link in bio.

19/10/2026

This content is for psychoeducation only and is not therapy, diagnosis, or individual advice. If you are struggling, please speak to a qualified professional or your local mental health service. If you are in crisis or feel at risk, contact emergency services or your local crisis team.
If you want to explore therapy with me, please visit my website - link in bio.

16/10/2026

Look - OCD can actually start with something true

OCD can be incredibly convincing because it doesn’t always begin with something irrational.

It can begin with a completely true fact — and then quietly turn “this can happen” into “this must be relevant to me, here, now.”

In icbt, you learn that the problem isn’t necessarily the original fact. It’s the reasoning that made that possibility personally significant without enough evidence.

That distinction can matter enormously in OCD treatment.
This content is for psychoeducation only and is not therapy, diagnosis, or individual advice. If you are struggling, please speak to a qualified professional or your local mental health service. If you are in crisis or feel at risk, contact emergency services or your local crisis team.

If you want to explore therapy with me, please visit my website - link in bio.

OCD Awareness Week is a good time to say this clearly: OCD is not “being tidy” or “liking things a certain way.”For many...
15/10/2026

OCD Awareness Week is a good time to say this clearly: OCD is not “being tidy” or “liking things a certain way.”
For many people, it’s a relentless cycle of intrusive doubt and the urge to do something (physically or mentally) to feel safe again. 🧠🔁

Last year I made a short GetCBT animation because so many people feel confused about what OCD help should actually look like, and how to choose a therapy approach that’s evidence-based (not just “talk about it and hope”). 🫶

If you’ve ever wondered:
• Is this OCD or just anxiety?
• Why can’t I stop checking/reassuring/ruminating?
• What should I be looking for in OCD treatment?

This one’s for you. Share it with someone who needs a clearer, kinder explanation. 🤝

Watch here:
https://youtu.be/RWwwv8HXw7c

This week we’re helping you to recognise OCD symptoms.Today we’re looking at “OCD subtypes”.These aren’t official DSM ca...
14/10/2026

This week we’re helping you to recognise OCD symptoms.

Today we’re looking at “OCD subtypes”.

These aren’t official DSM categories, but many people find them useful:

* Contamination OCD (germs/illness/“feeling dirty”)
* Checking OCD (harm, responsibility, doubt)
* Pure O (often not pure—mainly mental compulsions: rumination, neutralising, reassurance)
* Harm OCD (unwanted violent intrusive thoughts + safety behaviours/avoidance)
* Sexual intrusive thoughts OCD (unwanted taboo thoughts + checking/avoidance/confessing)
* Scrupulosity (religious/moral OCD: “sin,” blasphemy, being “good enough”)
* Relationship OCD (ROCD) (certainty about love/attraction/compatibility)
* Hit-and-run OCD (fear you injured someone without knowing)
* Health/Somatic OCD (body checking, reassurance loops)
* Sensorimotor OCD (hyper-awareness of blinking, breathing, swallowing)
* Real-event OCD (“What if that past mistake means I’m awful?”)
* False memory OCD (“What if I did something and forgot?”)
* Symmetry/‘Just Right’ OCD (internal discomfort until it feels correct)
* Existential OCD (unanswerable questions that trap you in rumination)
* Perinatal/postpartum OCD (intrusions after childbirth + avoidance/reassurance)

If you recognised yourself in this list: you’re not alone, and you’re not “making a fuss.” OCD is treatable, especially when therapy targets the obsession–compulsion loop, not just the content of the thought.

14/10/2026

When the body becomes a moral test

OCD can turn an involuntary bodily sensation into a question about who you are.

Then the checking begins: monitoring, comparing, recreating situations and searching your body for a definitive answer.

But trying to establish your morality through the presence or absence of a physical sensation keeps the test alive.
Recovery isn’t necessarily proving what the sensation meant. It can mean stepping out of the process of using your body as evidence in the first place.

This content is for psychoeducation only and is not therapy, diagnosis, or individual advice. If you are struggling, please speak to a qualified professional or your local mental health service. If you are in crisis or feel at risk, contact emergency services or your local crisis team.
If you want to explore therapy, please visit my website - link in bio.

Obsessions people often have in OCD**Contamination**: germs, illness, bodily fluids, “unclean” feelings**Harm**: “What i...
13/10/2026

Obsessions people often have in OCD

**Contamination**: germs, illness, bodily fluids, “unclean” feelings

**Harm**: “What if I cause an accident?” “What if I hurt someone?”

**Responsibility**: “If anything goes wrong, it’ll be my fault.”

**Doubt**: “What if I didn’t lock the door / turn it off / do it properly?”

**Uncertainty**: needing 100% certainty before moving on

**Taboo intrusive thoughts** (unwanted): sexual, violent, religious, blasphemous

**Relationship fears**: “Do I really love them?” “What if I chose wrong?”

**Identity fears**: “What if this thought means something about who I am?”

**Morality**: “What if I’m secretly a bad person?”

**Symmetry/‘not just right’**: discomfort until it feels even/correct

**Health/somatic**: “What if I missed a serious symptom?”

**Existential**: “What if nothing is real?” “What if I never get an answer?”

* **Perinatal/postpartum intrusions**: scary, unwanted harm thoughts after having a baby (more common than people realise)

Compulsions people often do (visible and invisible)

**Checking**: locks, appliances, messages, memories, bodily sensations

**Reassurance-seeking**: asking others, googling, reading forums, “confessing”

**Mental reviewing**: replaying events to prove you didn’t do something

**Rumination**: analysing a thought until it “feels resolved”

**Neutralising**: replacing a “bad” thought with a “good” one

**Counting/tapping/repeating**: until it feels safe or complete

**Ordering/arranging**: symmetry, alignment, “just right”

**Avoidance**: avoiding knives, roads, people, triggers, labels, places

**Washing/cleaning**: hands, showering, laundry, surfaces

**Seeking certainty**: reading, researching, lists, rules, “one more check”

**Compulsive honesty/confessing**: over-explaining, disclosing to relieve guilt

**Body scanning**: checking swallowing, blinking, breathing, heart rate

**Thought checking**: “Did I enjoy that thought?” “What did I feel?” (checking your reaction)

Recognise these? Reach out for support today 🤜 🤛

For OCD Awareness Week, here’s OCD (DSM-5) in human language - plus the “unofficial” OCD themes people might often recog...
12/10/2026

For OCD Awareness Week, here’s OCD (DSM-5) in human language - plus the “unofficial” OCD themes people might often recognise themselves in.

What OCD is (DSM-5, translated):

OCD involves obsessions and/or compulsions:

1. sessions unwanted, intrusive thoughts, images or urges that feel sticky, distressing or “not me.”
2. Compulsions = things you feel driven to do, outwardly or in your head, to reduce distress or prevent a feared outcome.

The impact matters too. These symptoms can take up significant time (for example, more than an hour a day), cause significant distress and/or interfere with everyday functioning - including work, relationships, routines and daily tasks.

The impact can be substantial, even when other people can’t see what’s happening.

Follow me ⭕ and tomorrow I’ll share some examples of obsessions and compulsions that you might recognise.

12/10/2026

When contamination OCD is really about losing the map

Sometimes contamination OCD isn’t only about what you touched.
It’s the fear of no longer knowing where the contamination went next.
Once you start mentally tracking every contact, object and surface, the map can become enormous — and maintaining it becomes a compulsion in itself.

ERP may involve allowing some of that map to become uncertain rather than repeatedly reconstructing it.

This content is for psychoeducation only and is not therapy, diagnosis, or individual advice. If you are struggling, please speak to a qualified professional or your local mental health service. If you are in crisis or feel at risk, contact emergency services or your local crisis team.
If you want to explore therapy with me, please visit my website - link in bio.

10/10/2026

Can you spot the faulty reasoning in this OCD story?

You can see both children standing beside you.
But OCD asks:
“Have you really taken in what you’re seeing?”
“What if one wanders away?”
“What if you counted the same child twice?”

This is distrust of the senses in action.

Then OCD adds a story you heard about another parent, asks you to imagine your child disappearing, and points to the resulting panic as evidence that the situation must be dangerous.

But the panic came after the imagined story.
It didn’t reveal the danger.

The story created the feeling.
OCD often makes imagination feel more important than what is directly in front of you.



This content is for psychoeducation only and is not therapy, diagnosis, or individual advice. If you are struggling, please speak to a qualified professional or your local mental health service. If you are in crisis or feel at risk, contact emergency services or your local crisis team.
If you want to explore therapy with me, please visit my website - link in bio.

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