Before you start
This anxiety & stress self-assessment helps you explore obsessions, compulsions, and repetitive rituals. Answer each item based on your typical recent experience. 18 questions, all responses are required for an accurate indicative result.
This page is designed for self-reflection around obsessions, compulsions, and repetitive rituals.
Look at how often the pattern appears, how strong it feels, and how much it affects daily functioning.
Online screening tools can support awareness, but they cannot confirm or exclude a clinical condition.
Who this test may help
This test may be useful if you want a structured snapshot of obsessions, compulsions, and repetitive rituals and a starting point for reflection, tracking, or discussion with a professional.
How to read your score
Interpret the result together with context: recent stressors, sleep, health, relationships, and how long the pattern has been present. Borderline scores are best treated as signals, not labels.
What this test explores
The test focuses on how often, over roughly the last month, you experience:
- Obsessions – unwanted intrusive thoughts, images or urges that are hard to dismiss.
- Compulsions – repetitive behaviours or mental acts (for example checking, washing, repeating) done to reduce distress.
- Control & doubt – fear of harm, strong need to feel “just right”, difficulty tolerating uncertainty.
Many people have occasional intrusive thoughts. What matters in OCD is how frequent, intense and time-consuming the obsession–compulsion cycle becomes and how much it interferes with daily life.
How to use this result
Many people living with OCD-like patterns also live with shame and secrecy. Recognising obsession–compulsion cycles can be a first step in treating them as a condition to be worked with, not as a personal failure.
You can use this profile to notice which themes are most active for you (for example contamination, checking, “just right” feelings or taboo thoughts) and to guide conversations with professionals about evidence-based support options.
OCD Test – FAQ
Does having intrusive thoughts mean I have OCD?
Not by itself. Many people have strange or disturbing intrusive thoughts from time to time. In OCD, these thoughts tend to be very frequent, distressing and followed by compulsive behaviours or mental rituals intended to neutralise them.
Can OCD be successfully treated?
Yes. Evidence-based treatments, such as cognitive-behavioural therapy with exposure and response prevention (ERP) and certain medications, can substantially reduce symptoms for many people. A high score on this test is a reason to seek help, not a reason to give up hope.
Can this test replace a professional assessment?
No. The test is a self-reflection tool. It cannot capture all relevant information (such as history, other conditions or risk factors). If you are worried, bring your results to a qualified professional and use them as a starting point for a fuller conversation.