Hyperfamiliarity OCD

A hyperfamiliarity type of OCD involves an unpleasant and unusual feeling of knowing or being familiar with new or ordinary people, places, objects, or situations, which logically and cognitively, as a normal and rational individual, knows cannot be true. This experience is not related to any actual memory but rather a false recognition or feeling […]

Hypersexuality OCD

Hypersexuality OCD is where an individual gets intrusive, unwanted sexual thoughts, urges or images and becomes excessively preoccupied with controlling, understanding and neutralising them. They are inconsistent with the person’s values, morals, identity, or intentions. The distress arises not from desire, but from fear of what the thoughts might mean about the self. Unlike Hypersexuality […]