OCD can involve intrusive thoughts, images, or urges and repetitive behaviors or mental rituals performed to reduce distress or prevent something feared. This check-in focuses on how much time, distress, and interference those patterns create.
This tool is designed for self-reflection and support navigation. It is not a diagnosis. Results should be interpreted in context, especially when symptoms are severe, persistent, or affecting daily life.
About the evidence: Project Semicolon custom OCD-symptom check-in. It does not reproduce the OCI-R or another copyrighted OCD instrument.
Project Semicolon reviews assessment wording, scoring logic, safety routing, and source status separately from the directory experience. Custom check-ins are clearly distinguished from validated instruments.
We store the completed assessment type, result band, score when applicable, limited secondary signals, and basic engagement events for aggregate metrics. Raw question responses are not stored.
This assessment is a screening and support-navigation tool, not a diagnosis or substitute for professional medical care.
No. OCD centers on distressing obsessions, compulsions, or both, and the degree to which they consume time or interfere with life.
Yes. Mental reviewing, counting, praying, neutralizing thoughts, or repeating phrases can function as compulsions.
Repeated reassurance can become part of the compulsion cycle by teaching the brain that uncertainty must be eliminated.
Yes. Evidence-based treatment can substantially reduce OCD symptoms for many people.
