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You know it’s fake. You might even laugh at it. And you can still feel the urge to wash your hands after touching it.For...
10/22/2026

You know it’s fake. You might even laugh at it. And you can still feel the urge to wash your hands after touching it.

For some people with contamination OCD, knowing something logically doesn’t make the discomfort disappear. That’s why fake p**p can have a place in Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP).

With support, you practise allowing that uncomfortable feeling without washing repeatedly, seeking reassurance or avoiding. Each exposure is chosen with you, based on what you’re working towards.

OCD treatment can get creative. There’s a purpose behind the props.

10/20/2026

Fake p**p. Real discomfort. A chance to practise responding differently.

When contamination OCD tells you to wash, check or ask someone if you’re okay, that urge can feel hard to ignore. Even when the thing in front of you is pretend.

As part of an individualised ERP plan, a prop like this can help you practise feeling discomfort without following it with a compulsion.

You don’t have to feel completely comfortable to take a step forward. We’ll help you work out what that step looks like for you.

10/17/2026

It can be hard to ask for help when you’re not sure how to explain what’s happening.

Maybe your symptoms don’t look like the OCD you’ve seen on TV. Maybe you’ve kept them private because you’re worried about how someone might respond.

Learning more about OCD can help you find words for those experiences. It can also help the people around you respond with more understanding.

You don’t need to have everything figured out before reaching out. Our team can help you understand your symptoms and explore the support that’s right for you.

This OCD Awareness Week, share something you’ve learned with someone you care about. You may help make a conversation they’ve been afraid to have feel a little safer.

10/17/2026

When the same intrusive thought keeps coming back, it can become hard to focus on anything else.

You might spend hours reviewing it, checking, asking for reassurance, or avoiding anything that brings it up. The relief may last a moment, only for the doubt to return.

OCD can keep you caught in that cycle. Effective OCD treatment, including exposure and response prevention (ERP), can help you change how you respond so those thoughts have less control over your day.

That’s why awareness matters. Someone who’s been struggling quietly may recognize their experience and learn that help is available.

Share this with someone who wants to understand OCD better. The more openly we talk about it, the more people we can help reach the right support.

10/16/2026

Our Access Clinic is live!

Knowing support exists matters. Being able to access it matters just as much.

Cost and access can make getting help difficult. The Access Clinic was developed to help reduce those barriers through lower-cost, OCD-informed counselling for people living with OCD and their family members or caregivers.

Master’s-level social work interns, supervised by experienced OCD clinicians, provide emotional support, coping strategies, help navigating community resources, and guidance for loved ones.

This support complements exposure and response prevention (ERP). It does not replace ERP treatment.

During OCD Awareness Week, we’re continuing our work to make support more accessible, because everyone deserves care that understands OCD.

Visit the Access Clinic page through the link in our bio to learn more and contact our team.

10/16/2026

It’s OCD Awareness Week, and our whole team is coming together with one message: everyone deserves access to effective OCD care.

OCD can take hours out of your day. It can interrupt your relationships, your work, your sleep, and the things you want to enjoy. So much of that struggle can happen without anyone else seeing it.

This week, we’re joining the International OCD Foundation’s “That’s OCD” campaign to help more people recognize OCD and understand that treatment is available.

Knowing what you’re experiencing has a name, and that there are people who know how to help, can make reaching out feel possible.

Share what you learn this week. Talk with your friends and family. Help us reach someone who’s still trying to understand what they’re going through.

10/14/2026

You don’t have to live with OCD to help someone find support.

You can share information that helps them recognize their symptoms. You can listen without judgment. You can help them understand that OCD-specific treatment exists.

At OCD North, we know reaching out can feel difficult. Awareness can help make that first conversation a little easier, especially when someone has been afraid they won’t be understood.

This OCD Awareness Week, help us get that information to more people.

Save this post. Send it to a friend. Share it to your stories. Or tell us in the comments: what’s one thing you wish more people understood about OCD?

You don’t need to share anything personal to be part of the conversation.

10/14/2026

If you don’t know what OCD can look like, you might spend years trying to hide symptoms you don’t understand.

That’s why awareness matters so much to us. It’s part of the work our founder, Merrisa Little, does every day, and it’s why we keep having these conversations here.

This year’s OCD Awareness Week theme, “That’s OCD,” speaks to the experiences people don’t always recognize: the mental reviewing, the repeated need for reassurance, the intrusive thoughts you’re afraid to tell anyone about.

Recognizing those experiences can help you understand what’s happening and find OCD-specific care, including exposure and response prevention (ERP).

Everyone deserves that opportunity.

Talk about OCD with your friends and family. Share accurate information. Speak about it with understanding, because how we talk about OCD can make it easier for someone to ask for help.

10/09/2026

The glitter isn’t evenly mixed. The colour isn’t quite what you wanted. There’s sticky slime on your fingers, and OCD says you need to fix it.

That’s where making slime can become an opportunity to practise.

With Safa’s guidance, a playful activity can become an exposure tailored to your child’s OCD. They might practise leaving the colours uneven, keeping a batch that feels “not quite right” or resisting the urge to start over.

The response prevention part matters: allowing that uncomfortable feeling without doing the compulsion OCD is asking for.

For a child learning to stand up to their “OCD monster,” that practice can happen through something creative, messy and fun.

10/06/2026

You finish a prayer, then start again because you’re worried you didn’t mean it enough. An unwanted thought interrupts, and you spend the next hour trying to undo it.

Religious OCD, also called scrupulosity, can leave you questioning your intentions, your beliefs and whether you’ve done something wrong. Repeating prayers, mentally reviewing or asking for reassurance may bring brief relief, but the doubt keeps coming back.

OCD care can respect your faith while helping you step out of that cycle. Exposure and response prevention (ERP) helps you practise allowing uncertainty without responding to every doubt with a compulsion.

You deserve support that understands both your OCD and what matters to you.

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