Done With OCD

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

Exposure work should feel challenging, but not overwhelming. If your anxiety feels too intense, it does not mean you are...
21/06/2026

Exposure work should feel challenging, but not overwhelming. If your anxiety feels too intense, it does not mean you are failing. It may simply mean the exposure needs to be adjusted.

Before starting, rate your anxiety from 1 to 10. Too easy may not teach your brain much. Too much can make you want to escape or rely on safety behaviors. The goal is the “just right” zone, where you can feel discomfort and still stay present.

Try spotting safety behaviors, stepping the exposure down one level, or modifying it slightly instead of avoiding it completely. Then ride the wave and let anxiety rise and fall naturally.

OCD learns from what you do, not what you fear.

18/06/2026

Replaying every kind thing you do, wondering if your motives were pure? That's not a character flaw. It's moral OCD.

11/06/2026

When praying starts to feel like checking, that's scrupulosity, not weak faith. The doubt can be there without praying it away.

09/06/2026

Praying again and again until it feels sincere enough? That spiral can be OCD, not weak faith. You are not alone in this.

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.

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