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OCD — compulsion burden

Compulsion tracking that only counts repetitions misses what actually matters clinically. Here's the framing the app's check-in is built on instead.

Time, distress, interference

The Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale treats time spent, distress, and interference with daily life as the real severity signal for OCD — reflected directly in how the app frames its own compulsion check-in.

Common questions

Why not just count compulsions?

A raw count misses severity — ten minutes of distressing compulsion can be more disruptive than fifty quick, low-distress ones. Y-BOCS's time/distress/interference framing captures that, so the app does too.

References
  1. Goodman WK, et al. The Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale: development, use, and reliability. Arch Gen Psychiatry, 1989.

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