MONTREAL PSYCHOLOGIST: OCD and Self-Confidence

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) has several subtypes such as checking type, contamination type, and symmetry, which are all about checking, decontaminating, and creating order. An individual with OCD needs to check and recheck to reassure himself of safety, order, cleanness etc. and still does not feel reassured that he did lock the door or that his hands are clean or that an asymmetrical book shelf is not related to bad things happening. And so OCD becomes a disease of “doubts”. It increases self-doubt and decreases self-confidence. Strengthening self-confidence by increasing your knowledge (especially about the obsessions) and becoming increasingly fact-oriented are effective ways to overcome self-doubts and eventually the OCD.

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