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Recovering from OCD isn’t about perfection. It’s about progress—real, messy, imperfect progress. That’s the difference between progress vs perfection—one moves you forward, while the other keeps you stuck. The problem is, OCD and anxiety love to convince you that if you’re not doing something perfectly, it doesn’t count. That if you still have intrusive thoughts, […]

If you’ve ever felt like something isn’t quite right—like your shirt isn’t sitting perfectly on your shoulders, or a sentence you wrote needs to be rewritten 20 times until it finally “feels” correct—you might be experiencing what’s known as the “just right” feeling in perfectionism OCD. Perfectionism isn’t just about having high standards or wanting […]