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Dr Steven Phillipson - Magical thinking in OCD (Ep183)

The OCD Stories

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The Three Components of OCD

The big three of OCD are sex, violence, and religion. The cognitive component is what we just spoke about in terms of the endless nature of the creative thoughts. And that a lot of these topics have a tremendous amount of shame built around it. We really need a new statistic on now that we understand that the greater variety of OCD, it probably isn't just the big three anymore, it's probably more like the big 100.

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