List of common compulsions

Compulsions are the things we do to try and prevent intrusive thoughts and bad things from happening. Like thoughts, the list of compulsions can be endless, but many can be sorted into categories.

This is a live table of compulsions the community have logged via the OCD Log:

These articles look at the compulsions already logged, allowing you to rate the difficulty of each environment:

OCD and Staring: Looking at people and things obsessively

Reversing or neutralizing thoughts with OCD

Checking OCD

Washing or cleaning

Ordering and Symmetry OCD

Counting and numbering

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