If you're reading this, there's a good chance you've had thoughts that scared you. Thoughts about hurting someone you love, or losing control in a way that feels unimaginable. And then maybe the thought right after that was: "What does it mean that I even thought that?" I want to be direct here: those thoughts don't make you dangerous. They make you human, and when they take hold and start running your life, that's Harm OCD, and it's something I work with every day in my prac

One of the things that makes OCD so confusing is that it doesn't always look like what you'd expect. Sometimes there's no hand-washing, no visible ritual. Just thoughts that won't stop replaying the same doubt/question, over and over, with no satisfying answer ever coming. Sometimes you'll hear this described as "Pure O" or purely obsessional OCD: rumination and mental compulsions. In my experience, it's one of the more exhausting forms of OCD to live with, partly because peo