{"id":661684,"date":"2026-10-22T03:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T03:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/661684\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T03:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T03:54:12","slug":"19-things-an-ocd-therapist-wants-you-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/661684\/","title":{"rendered":"19 Things An OCD Therapist Wants You To Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HD <a data-vars-affiliate=\"unsplash.com\" data-vars-href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/OCD\/comments\/1k79kt7\/comment\/moxa0nt\/\" data-vars-name=\"went into it\" data-vars-price.value=\"0\" data-vars-subbuzz-id=\"141421296\" data-vars-subbuzz-pos=\"7\" data-vars-text=\"unsplash.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/OCD\/comments\/1k79kt7\/comment\/moxa0nt\/\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">went into it<\/a>: &#8220;&#8216;Just right&#8217; OCD involves trying to ward off things feeling off or wrong and seeking symmetry, perfection, completeness, balance, or, well, that just right feeling.<\/p>\n<p>Some symptoms that come to mind:<\/p>\n<p>-Ordering and arranging items in certain or &#8216;right&#8217; ways<\/p>\n<p>-Needing symmetry<\/p>\n<p>-Perfectionism<\/p>\n<p>-Counting rituals<\/p>\n<p>-Needing the radio volume to be set to a specific number<\/p>\n<p>-Avoiding every crack in the sidewalk<\/p>\n<p>-Touching something repeatedly until it feels right<\/p>\n<p>-Doing things extremely slowly so they can be perfect<\/p>\n<p>-Reassurance-seeking<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, the different types can get blurry because they overlap! Ultimately, they all follow the same formula.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HD went into it: &#8220;&#8216;Just right&#8217; OCD involves trying to ward off things feeling off or wrong and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[22531,777,36333,103,61,60,410,411],"class_list":["post-661684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-bestofinternet-reddit","tag-evergreen","tag-flipped","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}