Not Just Right Experiences in Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders

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Beliefs, compulsive behavior and reduced confidence in control

“…This in-between state may align with what patients frequently report as ‘not-just-right’ experiences or ‘feelings of incompleteness’ [ 29 , 30 ]. Individuals with OCD tend to be highly attuned to their repetitive behaviors and use the ‘not-just-right’ feelings as a prompt to perform the compulsion until they reach a sense of completion [ 30 – 33 ]. In our computational model this sense of completion would be achieved once the belief has transitioned from thinking the hands are dirty to believing they are clean enough to resume cooking.…”

Beliefs, compulsive behavior and reduced confidence in control

“…This in-between state may be what is reflected in what patients frequently report as 'notjust-right' experiences or 'feelings of incompleteness' (Coles et al, 2005;Summerfeldt, 2004). OCD sufferers appear to be highly attuned to their repetitive behaviors and use the 'not-just-right' feelings as a prompt to perform the compulsion until they reach a sense of completion (Coles et al, 2005;Leckman et al, 1994;Miguel et al, 2000;Schmidt and Stasik-O'Brien, 2017). In our computational model this sense of completion would be achieved once the belief has transitioned from thinking the hands are dirty to believing they are clean.…”

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“…This in-between state may align with what patients frequently report as 'not-just-right' experiences or 'feelings of incompleteness' [29,30]. Individuals with OCD tend to be highly attuned to their repetitive behaviors and use the 'not-just-right' feelings as a prompt to perform the compulsion until they reach a sense of completion [30][31][32][33]. In our computational model this sense of completion would be achieved once the belief has transitioned from thinking the hands are dirty to believing they are clean enough to resume cooking.…”