#obsessive compulsive behavior

[vrtualseraph]

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[antleredarchivist]

Having moral OCD and making an actual genuine mistake, or reflecting back on your actions and having actual legitimate regrets, is like handing yourself a loaded gun and convincing yourself you’re a bad person if you don’t pull the trigger.

[therpistlr]

🧠 How Daily ERP Helped Quiet Pure OCD (Without a Therapist) — Workbook That Mapped It All Out

Pure OCD isn’t obsession without compulsion — it’s obsession with invisible compulsions: mental checking, reassurance seeking, thought suppression, and analyzing the meaning of intrusive thoughts.

The themes vary — harm, SO-OCD, scrupulosity, existential dread — but the cycle is the same:

Intrusive thought hits

Mental rituals kick in (often instantly)

Temporary relief

More anxiety

Repeat

That’s the trap. The only way out? Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) — even when the compulsions are all mental.

💡 What ERP Looks Like for Pure O

Writing and re-reading scary thoughts on purpose

Sitting with uncertainty ("Maybe I'm a bad person. Maybe I’ll never know.")

Blocking mental reviewing, confessing, or reassurance-seeking

Letting anxiety rise, peak, and fall — without fixing it

ERP isn't about feeling better right away — it's about retraining the brain to see the thoughts as irrelevant noise. And it works.

📘 One Workbook That Actually Gets Pure O

If doing ERP alone sounds overwhelming, this helped tremendously:

👉 The Pure O OCD Workbook

It’s written by clinicians, but practical and easy to follow. Some highlights:

Breakdown of Pure OCD themes (harm, sexual, religious, etc.)

Worksheets to build a personal ERP plan

Imaginal exposure scripts tailored to intrusive thoughts

Strategies to interrupt mental rituals

Relapse prevention and tracking tools

It teaches how to face the fear without giving in to compulsions — step by step.

⚠️ What Keeps OCD Going (and ERP Stops)

Rumination (“Why am I thinking this?”)

Reassurance-seeking (Googling, confessing, analyzing)

Avoidance (of people, triggers, media)

Treating the thought like it’s meaningful

Needing certainty before moving on

The more the mind tries to “figure it out,” the tighter the OCD grip. ERP breaks that cycle — and the brain learns that uncertainty is safe.

✅ Recovery Is Possible

Pure OCD can feel isolating and exhausting. But with consistent ERP — even without a therapist — things can change.

The thoughts may still come, but they lose power. The anxiety fades faster. The freedom grows.

It takes work, but it’s worth it.

👉 Here’s the workbook that helped make it doable, one day at a time.

[cosmiccorvids]

This post is going to make a lot of disability "allies" angry and/or uncomfortable. I do not care.

Im so fucking tired of OCD being painted as "the cleaning disorder" and "everything must be so neat and tidy disorder" its not. its can be like that, sometimes. but just as often as OCD can cause (severely mentally and socially taxing) attention to being clean, often times it actually the opposite. and in my case, its severely the opposite. im sharing pictures because i don't know how to better explain to people that i can not walk on the floor of my room. i walk on top of old clothes and books and trash. I hope you realize this is an incredibly vulnerable thing for me to do.

I. can. not. walk. on. my. floor. i really cant show it any better. and yes, ive tried cleaning. ive tried cleaning with my meds. I've tried cleaning to music. ive tried throwing things away. every time it ends in me crying. that suitcase was last used 6 months ago, i still haven't unpacked it. that chick-fil-a bag has been there for over two years. why cant i throw it away? its full of worm on strings that i got as a joke and never tried to do anything with. those paint splotches on the floor are three years old. the last decent clean of my room was almost 6 months ago, and a lot of that mess was pushed under my bed. its still there. and if you understand why my room is like this, you can only imagine how long its been since ive washed my hair OCD isnt always clean. it isnt always neat or symmetrical or pretty often times its filthy, its sleeping in trash. it smells horrible, it doesn't let me be clean or perfect. it doesnt want to be clean OCD does not want to be clean. it wants everything to be correct. and often times, correct means leving old towels on the floor becuase it would be wrong to move them. I have more to say. im going to make more posts about our OCD. but for now, i am tired, and i feel like shit. so i am going to go wash my hands because that is the cleanest i know how to be

[ocdculture-is]

ocd culture is *maybe* im the one person who shouldn't be allowed to recover because what if i become a terrible person without the constant guilt and terror.

OCD culture is

[unspeakablearchives]

I feel the tag "moral ocd" is kind of obvious for why it's tagged, BUT i wanted to ask anyways. What is moral OCD?

(Quick disclaimer that I actually have no idea what I'm talking about and you should probably look up real answers from qualified experts but hey what the hell let's give it shot lol)

So when people say "Moral OCD" they seem to usually be referring to a subtype of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) that's more officially called "Moral Scrupulosity". But I mean look at that weird fucking word, who's gonna take the time to write that out each time, am I right?

Anyway, moral scrupulosity / moral OCD is basically this obsessive fear that you may be immoral, evil, a bad person, harming others, not doing enough to help others, etc.

Someone suffering from this might, for instance, become fixated on how they had thoughts about something gross, cruel, or wrong and they become terrified that this must mean they're an evil person. Alternately, they might obsess over something relatively insignificant that they said or did, looking for any signs that it might have been ignorant or hurtful or whatever.

This subject comes up periodically when dealing with fucked up media because a (relatively small, but noticeable) number of people who seek that stuff out or enjoy it end up feeling this sort of moral OCD related to it, convinced that it makes them a bad person.

Personally I've never experienced anything like this - I just assume that I'm a delightful ray of sunshine no matter how much fucked up stuff I intentionally seek out. Not 100% sure what that says about me 😅

[thejohnlockedfemboy]

Anyone else struggle with sort of— anthropomorphizing inanimate objects? Stuffed animals, pebbles, coins, ect? Like oh. That plushie has fur over its eyes. It can’t see :(

Or oh :( that pebble is so sad, sitting on the sidewalk by itself. it must be so hot in the sunlight. Or the duality— that coin is evil and will curse me. It wants to harm me. I should stay away from it.

[mayziiirex]

when I was younger I'd have conversations with people about OCD, and whenever i said ANYTHING about suspecting it I would get yelled at. "OCD is more than being organized and a clean freak!!" "you saying you might have it is taking away X from people who do! "

turns out I did have it, and all of the obsessions, Compulsions & intrusive thoughts I had weren't me faking it for attention! who would've guessed!