Identifying the Contamination Obsession Right at the Beginning

The person with oc d often thinks their imaginary possibilities are real probabilities, and so gets dragged into the idea that they are really real. So once you have the intrusion, you are in the obsession. You are in the doubt, because it's a doubt which is the origin of the obsession. I would suggest that telling people, as they do in the traditional conitheropy, that intrusions are perfectly normal, is not very helpful,. The content may be normal. Everyone's had those thoughts, but they're not exactly the same.