Pure O is a lesser known version of OCD (Obsessive compulsive disorder) which involves purely mental compulsions, as opposed to physical compulsions, such as checking or hand washing. Individuals with Pure O experience intrusive thoughts, urges, emotional sensations and images that conflict with their identity, causing severe distress. This leads to attempts to counteract or avoid obsessions through mental compulsions, such as mentally cancelling thoughts, seeking reassurance from others, as well as avoidance methods, all of which may offer temporal relief, but which ultimately substantiate the OCD. There are many different sub-types, or 'themes' of Pure O, including somatic OCD (a hyper-awareness of bodily functions, existential O (constant, anxiety provoking ruminations on philosophy) and real-event OCD (remembering real events in which you have done something wrong with severe emotional intensity and overthinking/trying to resolve them). It's a condition that is often ex...