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The Invisible Loop: A Pure-O Workbook
If your OCD lives mostly in your head, the compulsions no one else sees can feel impossible to name — let alone stop. This free chapter helps you see the loop clearly, so you can start stepping out of it instead of arguing with it.
What's inside
- Why "pure-O" is not OCD without compulsions — it's OCD with invisible ones, and naming them changes everything.
- The mental rituals you may be doing right now: reassurance-seeking in your own head, mental review, silent checking, neutralizing thoughts with thoughts.
- A simple loop map you can fill in for your own themes (harm, sexual orientation, relationship, religious, existential, contamination-of-mind).
- Your first ERP-style practice: a small, on-purpose exposure to the thought instead of the ritual.
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Written by Nina Eberly, PhD, LCSW — an ERP-trained OCD specialist in private practice. Everything in this workbook is drawn from real clinical work with people whose OCD hides where no one else can see it.
Onward Healing Therapy is a private-pay specialty telehealth practice serving adults in Pennsylvania and Vermont. Founder Nina Eberly, PhD, LCSW. The content on this site is for educational purposes and does not constitute clinical advice or establish a therapist-client relationship. If you are in immediate distress, call or text 988 for the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.
