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Results were just released from the largest study of OCD treatment ever recorded. Validated by the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), one of the most respected journals in healthcare research, the study documented treatment outcomes of over 3500 people over the course of NOCD Therapy. What we learned was remarkable: NOCD Therapy members experienced a significant decrease in OCD symptoms: Treating the root cause of OCD also resulted in dramatic improvements in levels of depression, anxiety, stress, and overall quality of life. Results came sooner than in standard treatment: NOCD Therapy members achieved meaningful results in less than half the time needed for standard ERP treatment on average, resulting in potentially substantial savings in time and money. Why it matters: The study suggests that for many people with OCD, outpatient ERP therapy can be more efficiently delivered in a face-to-face virtual setting than in person. This means that virtual-first therapy may shift from the “alternative” to the “standard.” Rigorous, peer-reviewed research allows us to consistently provide our members with the best possible care for OCD and related conditions. Read a full summary of the study’s findings.

I am suffering from religious OCD for the past 32 years. When I am practising disregarding my OCD fires back with strong thoughts of until when u r going to disregard. When I say to myself God is with me it fires back with thoughts of what God has done until now. You will never recover. May I ask you what is this. Azhar from India

I've called my GP twice and the first time I just hung up and cried. I called again just now but as soon as they answered I hung up again. Is there anyone else I can talk to so I can ask for these?

OCD makes me feel so alone. These last few months I feel like I’ve been unable to be honest or open fully with anyone. I’m so ashamed of what’s inside me and I’m scared. I feel like everything is my fault and I’m lonely despite having wonderful people and things in my life. I am alone and feel so fake and disingenuous.

How do I get my family to understand some of what I am going through and how the actions that they do could make it worse? I wish they weren’t so judgmental of the things I do. I truly feel like I can’t help it.

Most of my thoughts during the day are about rocd. But if I spent 5 minutes without thinking of them or thinking of my girlfriend my mind tells me that I’m falling out of love. What do I do?

Ok so it seems my OCD has resorted to being in my DREAMS .. I’ve had three dreams in the past 2 weeks about men I had small crushes on in high school (not even people I’ve HU with in the past.. weird)… and I just had one last night and we only did slight sexual things but what’s crazy is I could feel myself in the dream becoming anxious.. that i was comparing this guy to my boyfriend in real life and our sex life etc. it’s crazy how our brains do this. It’s SO HARD not to want to examine the dreams. Because it’s like .. why the hell am I dreaming this? why does OCD want to test me so badly? The dream is literally one big exposure and in the dream, I was checking/comparing my relationship to the person I was with. I couldn’t help it. I was dreaming! However, when I woke up, I felt anxious. I breathed deeply and told myself it’s just a dream and that there is no need to examine the dreams. Have you ever experienced this?

I have been avoiding so much, for years. I’ve had a lot of physical health problems on top of a divorce and Covid which have all been very triggering for my OCD which revolves around health primarily, but also a lot of other things. So a huge way I’ve dealt with it has been avoidance and also just keeping certain areas as safe spaces and not really going into other areas so they end up getting really dirty because I have two kids and they don’t clean a lot and then I don’t wanna touch those spaces and it gets really hard to be in those spaces so I’m in my room a lot and it’s also hard for me to cook because I worry about foods and their cleanliness and if they’re safe to eat and I have a limited array of foods I will eat and I also have just a lot of racing thoughts and I guess internal type rituals, but I’ve been getting out more and starting to cook more with the help of my boyfriend and just trying really hard. But last night I was out with my neighbors after I cook some food and my boys are out playing with their kids and we were out sitting in patio chairs in the in the lawn and one of my neighbors who tends to be really obnoxious and not have an understanding of social cues says some thing nasty about my house being messy and I got really angry because the past few days I’ve been busting my ass and actually not been in bed for extended periods of time and I’ve been really proud and my boyfriend has been really proud and I just really didn’t need her comments and she even made like a shudder about the thought of going into my house. It was incredibly rude and I got very angry at her. And it was in front of all the other neighbors and she’s the type of person who will be so nice to you but then use it against you, Wich is similar to my abusive relationship with my ex husband. I have talked to her about struggling with some stuff and she’s had her struggles, but I talk more to her sister who’s had a lot of struggles and I think her sister has shared some stuff with her so that’s how she knows about my condo because her sister has been in my condo. She has not. So anyway I got extremely angry with her and yelled at her in front of everyone like completely out of control the kids were way out of hearing range. But it wasn’t good I didn’t stay in control and I’m not proud of that. She had also been egging people on all night it was like it was her goal to piss someone off. And today I just feel really sad and upset and I don’t feel good about who I am because I went through a 10 year abusive marriage and she just is so triggering because she can’t empathize and it reminds me of some of the ways he was. I have so many supportive people around me but I’m just so sick of being her neighbor and just putting up with her saying crap and just smiling and pretending it’s fine and also watching her be awful to her mother and her sister as well. And everyone was on my side but I don’t think it makes it OK that I lost my temper and said a bunch of things I should not have said. But now I just feel like I can’t leave my house and I don’t want to go back into isolation because that makes everything worse with my OCD, but I’m feeling a lot of social anxiety and I just feel like I don’t do well in the world. All the other neighbors seem to be on my side and were really supportive of me and angry at her but that doesn’t justify me behaving that way. And she’s right next-door to me so I still to deal with her every day and she was really mad after I left and talking about wanting to beat me up and stuff, I’m 37 and she’s 60 so this is like really immature for both of us, and I’m not going try to beat up a 60 year old but she claims she could take me. Anyway I guess it’s good it’s rainy today because she probably won’t be outside and I’m just gonna sit inside.

Hi community, so I have a question. I’m treating OCD by myself, and I’m currently don’t giving my thoughts an importance that they don’t deserve while focusing on the present and avoiding compulssions. But when it comes to the term “exposures” by itself, does that means that I have to look for a quiet place and sit with my anxiety until is gone?, or an exposure can be done just by walking in the street and just making fun of my thoughts. Or are both different but useful techniches?

How can you tell if you’re healed? Like is it when there is no more anxiety? Bc it’s like my fear of not loving him seems true bc of how much I ruminated on it. I have no feelings for him or anyone else right now. I am unhappy I am unhappy with myself. My partner sometimes does things that upset me but not all the time. My friends said our mental state is what’s holding us back. That they want both of us to be happy. I don’t know anymore. I just know I am very unhappy with myself and I am tired of fighting. I don’t wanna break up with my partner bc I know I just want freedom from ROCD. But how can I tell him I am stuck believing I don’t love him? I want relief from this endless cycle of misery. Do you think this app will take Fedelis insurance too? I really want help. I know when I’m happy I love my partner. My friend said your brain is a huge mess right now and you need to get better

Hi everyone, My name is Alen and I am an OCD-patient in my twenties. This is my first time using this platform, so I hope I won’t make any mistakes. I was diagnosed with OCD five years ago. Back then, I struggled with cleaning, contamination, checking, and sexuality OCD. I started taking SSRI and all those symptoms almost disappeared. However, during this past years, I have still been struggling with relationship OCD. I currently have no official partner; however, I am getting to know someone, and my intrusive thoughts have exploded. I am anxious 24/7. It makes me so hard to distinguish “real” thoughts about whether this person is suitable for me, of the intrusive thoughts inherent to OCD. This anxiety has led me to kind of an avoidant behaviour. The idea of talking to the person I am dating makes me anxious. Which leads me to think I do not like them anymore. That makes me even more anxious. I am desperate. I feel like I was holding an enormous burden of thoughts that I can’t get rid of. I would appreciate if any of you who has relationship OCD could comment with their opinion or advice on this. Specially if you have had these intrusive thoughts while getting to know someone, instead of in a formal, long-term relationship. If you got here, thank you so much for reading.

Im 17, My pocd and incest ocd was getting better but then I went on a reassurance bender online and ended up reading a story from a 19 girl saying she had sexual activities with her uncle and describing it in detail and i poped a boner. I cant keep living like this ive already made so many excuses for myself im a sick f*ck

I think I really wanna break up with my partner!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😖😖😖 I am having very bad anxiety! I can’t breathe! I am still sick so it’s even harder!! This isn’t real!!! I know I love him!! This has to be ROCD!!! All I can think about is not loving him! I’ve been obsessing about it for 2 years and now my nightmare is coming true!!!

Hi everyone! Having gone through NOCD therapy to now working here full-time, I feel like I’ve had the pleasure of not only finally getting appropriate care, but seeing the entire process of treatment here from both sides. That being said, I remember how absolutely terrified I was when I first started. Is there something holding you back? Want to check in with someone who has done this first before taking that step? Ask me your questions below, I would love to do what I can to help you feel confident taking this incredible step towards overcoming your battle with OCD.💗

Asking as a college student. Can anyone relate?

I feel like I want this. I have so much junk in my head. I get these weird feelings in my head. Because it's such a mess 😔

Has anyone succesfully treated their OCD by their own? Currently struggling with some finantial issues right now (I live in a Latin American third world country) and I would like to hear some testimonies on self treatment

I struggled with Real event/ false memory OCD and the waiting times to get help where I live are very long so I desperately was trying to find help online. I watched OCD recovery UKs videos on YouTube for a couple of months because i could relate to them and it sounded like what they said in the videos made sense. I also went to some webinars. And started reading the books on their reading lists I used acceptance on my real event/ false memory fear in a way that “even if this happened in the past I could accept my self”. and it got so much better. I don’t even notice it anymore. My ocd have morphed in to other things tough. I found posts on Reddit saying that OCD recovery UK are a cult and that the founder Robert are a narcissist that just wants money and stuff like that. And that he isn’t a licensed therapist and make people worse and depressed and numb or something. I read that he uses REBT and acceptance the wrong way that can be damaging. He also teaches you about disputing irrational beliefs and being rational. I fear that I have been damaged by his methods. Or that I now think certain things is acceptable. I fear That those videos and webinars and exercises I have done have screwed up my belief system and that I now have bad beliefs or that I am “rational in a bad way” What should I do. I’m scared. I also fear that I’m brainwashed by them or something. The word Cult makes me sick to my stomach

I'm not going to ask anyone for reassurance. If I made a mistake then I made a mistake and I need to practice being okay with it TL;DR - I got back in touch with a girl I went on a few dates with and may have overshared about OCD I lived in Washington state a few years ago and met a really fun girl while I was there. We went on a few dates and though I didn't understand it at the time, I now realize I stopped asking her on dates because I gave into an avoidance compulsion. OCD had me convinced that if I couldn't match her in spontaneity, energy, and enthusiasm then I'd be a bad boyfriend for her I feel like I got a one in a billion chance opportunity to try again. She recently moved to my home state to go to school and lives one town over. I've already taken her on a date and it went really well I've asked her on a second date and it's agony for me. Every minute I don't get a text or a call from her confirming her interest, I'm convinced she's lost interest not only in the date but in me. I sent a followup text asking what day works better between Friday and Saturday (a legit question--I have to buy tickets in advance). She responded by telling me that she and her roommate actually wanted to do the same activity I had planned and asked if we could do next week instead I gave into my reassurance-seeking compulsion and said if she wasn't sure if she was interested anymore that it's completely fine and I wouldn't be offended, just to let me know Thankfully, she's still interested! Here's where I think I made a mistake though. I didnt want to be sitting in unsure mental agony for another several days, so I sent her this text: "Yeah, we can we do next week And this might sound really silly, but it's part of the reason I mentioned having OCD. Can you promise that if I ask you on a date and you do lose interest or change your mind at some point, you'll let me know? You probably would anyway but it helps for someone to promise OCD makes your mind default to the worst possible outcome unless you have proof it's not true. So instead of feeling fine about our plans unless I hear otherwise, I'm stressing that unless I get some confirmation from you that you're still interested, you've already decided to cancel but haven't told me yet. Knowing that someone made a promise that they'll let me know if anything changes is the fallback that I can rely on: if they haven't told me they've changed their mind then everything is good" Maybe a weird thing to hear after only one date. If it is, I won't stress about it or beat myself up, I'll just keep it in mind for future reference