List of intrusive thoughts and themes

Although there's an infinite number of ways intrusive thoughts can manifest, they often fall into categories or 'themes'.

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

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

OCD and Staring: Looking at people and things obsessively

Harm/Violence to yourself or others

Contamination OCD

Mental Contamination

Embarrassment and OCD

Guilt and OCD

Losing things OCD

Health-anxiety OCD

Relationships or family worries with OCD

Scrupulosity and Religious OCD

Sexual orientation OCD

Sexual intrusive thoughts in OCD

Sensorimotor OCD

False memories: Obsessing over things that didn’t happen

Existential and Depersonalization OCD

‘Just right’ OCD

Home OCD List of intrusive thoughts and themes

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