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Done With OCD Transform your relationship with OCD. Dr Max Eames, Psychologist with lived experience. Real hope.

Sexual Orientation OCD (SO-OCD) is not the same as authentic questioning. Natural questioning usually comes with curiosi...
07/06/2026

Sexual Orientation OCD (SO-OCD) is not the same as authentic questioning. Natural questioning usually comes with curiosity, reflection, and a sense that you can take your time. SO-OCD often feels urgent, frightening, and impossible to leave alone.

The doubt may push you to check your body, replay memories, compare feelings, or search online for certainty. These checks might bring short relief, but the doubt usually returns stronger.

A helpful ERP approach is to notice the urge to check, let the thought be present, and gently return to what matters in your life. You do not need to solve your identity right now to move forward.

04/06/2026

If one small mistake can haunt you for hours, that's not proof you're bad. It might be Moral OCD, the part of you that cares so much about being good it never lets you rest.

28/05/2026

Someone you love has ROCD? Don't agree with the doubt. Help them choose how to show up.

26/05/2026

Reassurance feels like relief. For OCD, it quietly becomes fuel. Pause before you ask. The doubt always returns.

Obsessions don’t always look like loud, obvious rituals.Sometimes OCD happens silently in the mind: replaying a conversa...
24/05/2026

Obsessions don’t always look like loud, obvious rituals.

Sometimes OCD happens silently in the mind: replaying a conversation, checking whether you “felt something,” praying to neutralize fear, asking for reassurance, or mentally reviewing the past until it feels “safe.”

These are mental rituals — and because no one can see them, many people don’t recognise them as compulsions.

But the loop is the same: anxiety → mental checking → short relief → more doubt.

ERP helps by teaching the brain a different response: allow the thought to be there, resist the urge to solve it, and move forward without chasing certainty.

You don’t have to win the argument with OCD.
You practise not entering the argument at all.

21/05/2026

Love starts feeling like a test you might fail. You scan every kiss, every silence. That's not love.
That's Relationship OCD.

14/05/2026

If you love them but can't stop questioning it, that doubt might not be about the relationship at all. That is Relationship OCD.

12/05/2026

Ever seen an OCD video and thought "wait, that's me"? That can be a clue. But OCD is the loop, not just the symptom. The doubt that keeps coming back. The need to feel sure that never settles.

07/05/2026

That loop of "do I really love them?" isn't your heart talking. It's your brain stuck on repeat.

Relationship OCD makes you question feelings that were never actually the problem. If this sounds familiar, you're not alone.

30/04/2026

Imagine opening up to a friend that you had SO-OCD. How would you like them to react, ideally?

The OCD loop always wants one more answer. A quiz, a check, a little distance from your partner. But certainty never comes that way.

SO-OCD isn't confusion about who you are. It's a thought pattern that feeds on doubt. Which voice sounds more familiar?

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