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Living with OCD

We're creating resources to help people learn about OCD in the many ways it impacts their own lives—not just what it looks like on paper. You can search our resources to determine when your intrusive thoughts may be related to OCD.

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How OCD Can Change With Age

It’s common for people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) to wonder if its symptoms might change over the course of their lives. While everyone’s

By Stacy Quick, LPC

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What Happens if You Don’t Get Treated for OCD?

As a clinician, I can tell you that everyone experiences obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) differently. But there are two key characteristics of this

By Dr. Keara Valentine

Reviewed by Patrick McGrath, PhD

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5 Ways OCD May Show Up in the Workplace and How You Can Manage

While obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is often misrepresented as a preoccupation with being clean and organized, the truth is that this serious, often

By Stacy Quick, LPC

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5 Useful Tips for Managing OCD and Depression

Frustration, sadness, and despair. Feeling like you’re trapped in a cycle. Everyday tasks seeming like insurmountable obstacles. While anyone who’s

By Stacy Quick, LPC

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How I Knew It Was Time To Get Help for OCD

I think that for most people who suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) or any mental health condition, there comes a breaking point. Eventually,

By Stacy Quick, LPC

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How OCD Convinces You That Your Fear Is Coming True

Obsessive-compulsive Disorder (OCD) can make it hard to distinguish between a true threat and an exaggerated one. The anxiety and unrelenting doubt of OCD

By Stacy Quick, LPC

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5 Tips for Managing Procrastination When You Have OCD

We've probably all put off an important task at some point, not because of laziness or bad time management, but because of the challenging emotions

By Stacy Quick, LPC

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Unexpected Ways OCD Might Show Up Around New Year’s and How You Can Manage Them

As December comes to an end, many people turn their attention towards reflecting on the past year, considering goals for the year ahead, and making plans

By Stacy Quick, LPC

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New Year’s Resolutions With OCD: What Works—and What Doesn’t

As the current year comes to a close, many people start thinking about what they want from the New Year. For some, this is an exciting time—it’s a new

By Stacy Quick, LPC

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Our Favorite OCD Articles of 2023

The end of the year is a time for reflection and at NOCD, we’re reflecting on our efforts to bring hope to people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)

By Hannah Overbeek

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My Struggles with OCD and Trichotillomania

I knew ERP worked, after all, it helped me so much in the past. I knew I just needed to put the difficult work in and keep forging ahead.

By Lisa

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It Was More Than A Phobia

I always thought that if I didn’t feel like I wanted to do something, leave the house, or do something that I had maybe previously enjoyed doing, it was me making that choice. Now I can clearly decipher the difference between me wanting or not wanting to do something versus the OCD telling me I shouldn’t do something. I don’t need to let OCD run my life...

By Tori

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Finding Purpose

Seemingly overnight, these thoughts became more and more intense. I was consumed with guilt over them. It snowballed into experiencing unwanted thoughts about harming my family; the people that I loved the most in the world. I knew I had to tell my wife. I needed to seek help.

By Tom

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Religion, Harm and Superstitions: My Descent into OCD

My family was surprised when they learned of my OCD diagnosis, I didn’t have the stereotypical signs of OCD. I didn’t wash my hands for countless hours, I wasn’t someone who was super organized. To look at me, you would not suspect all of the turmoil that went on in my mind. This is one of the most frustrating parts of this disorder, people do not often understand the mental compulsions. Many people just see the physical compulsions and don’t really understand the “why” behind the compulsions. I didn’t even know that there was such a thing as mental compulsions.

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The Freedom of Uncertainty

The uncertainty I’d spent my whole life running from now feels exciting and liberating. I don’t need to know “for sure” before I move my feet. I GET TO MAKE MISTAKES. And that’s horrible and amazing all at the same time.

By Tia Wilson

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From Childhood Sufferer to OCD Specialist

Something that has helped me along the way is no matter the content of the intrusive thought/feeling, I will ask myself “and then what”....you see, the story must go on. Play it out. Play out the worst case scenario. And then what happens… it always comes back to I just don’t like how it feels, and we know that life will go on.

By Stacy Quick, LPC

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Learning to live with OCD

I don’t remember a life before my OCD showed up, as some of my earliest memories involve (what I now know are) obsessions and compulsions. I remember being early school-age and feeling different from everyone else around me.

By Mollie Albanese

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My Experience with OCD

My life was going great. I was an award-winning college quarterback with a bright future ahead of me. But then OCD came out of nowhere and derailed everything.

By Stephen Smith, NOCD CEO

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