Intrusive thoughts around life, reality, and impossible questions

Unanswerable questions like these can end up consuming your life. I know from experience how difficult these fears can be—and how to find relief.

April Kilduff, MA, LCPC

What if I’m actually dead and don’t know it? A therapist’s perspective

Fears about being adopted and persistent distressing doubts about one’s origin of birth in OCD are related to the subtype of Existential OCD.

People with OCD may fear that a wide range of unusual or uncomfortable sensations are a sign of depersonalization

People with OCD fear of reincarnation experience obsessions related to reincarnation and the possibility of prior lives.

People with fear of dreaming (Dream OCD) experience obsessions about the content, meaning, or importance of their dreams.

People with OCD fear of afterlife experience obsessions and compulsions related to what happens to us after we die. 