OCD Screening & Severity Test Only

This quiz does not serve as a diagnosis of OCD. 

This OCD test is a screening tool to help you identify whether you do have OCD symptoms as well as identifying the severity of your symptoms. However, only a trained medical or mental health professional can give you a diagnosis of OCD.

Even if your OCD symptoms are mild, getting treatment sooner than later can help prevent symptoms from worsening.

And, if your screening results indicate no presence of OCD, you may still benefit from an assessment with a trained therapist to rule out related mental health concerns and cope with general anxiety or stress. 

OCD can occur alongside mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression, or ADHD. Or be specific symptoms of eating disorders or body dysmorphia. It can be helpful to take other mental health screenings to help you get a clear picture.  

Effective Treatments for OCD are Available

If your OCD test results indicate that you do have OCD symptoms, especially if the severity is medium or high, we strongly recommend that you make an appointment with a mental health professional for diagnosis and OCD treatment.

There are several effective treatment approaches for OCD. Bring a copy of your results from the OCD test to your first appointment. 

The unwanted thoughts and behaviors you might be experiencing can be overwhelming and you might not know what can be done to alleviate your symptoms. However, OCD is manageable.

If you are diagnosed with OCD, know that you are not alone. Approximately 1 in 100 adults have OCD and 1 in 200 children and teens have OCD. 

Notices About This Online OCD Quiz 

This is an OCD test for adults and is not intended to screen for OCD symptoms in children.

However, OCD can start at any age from preschool to adulthood.

If you suspect that your child or teen is displaying signs and symptoms of OCD, you can have them screened by a child therapist. There are other other conditions that can be confused with OCD. It’s important to get a thorough screening for your child/teen so you can begin effective interventions. 

This OCD screening test does not screen for Postpartum Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.

Postpartum OCD is characterized by upsetting, intrusive, repetitive thoughts or images specific to your baby along with compulsions to ease the anxiety. The thoughts and images can be especially frightening and is commonly overlooked by health care professionals. Typically, these OCD symptoms are something never experienced before.

If you have recently had a baby and are having scary thoughts, reach out to one of our Perinatal Mental Health Therapists for help. Postpartum OCD is temporary and treatable.  

Take the OCD Test

1. Over the last seven days, how much of your time was occupied by obsessive thoughts? How frequently did the obsessive thoughts occur?

None (if you checked this answer, also check 0 for questions 2, 3, 4, and 5 and proceed to question 6)

Less than 1 hour per day, or occasional intrusions (occurred no more than 8 times a day)

1 to 3 hours per day, or frequent intrusions (occurred more than 8 times a day, but most hours of the day were free of obsessions)

More than 3 hours and up to 8 hours per day, or very frequent intrusions (occurred more than 8 times a day and during most hours of the day)

More than 8 hours per day, or near-constant intrusions (too numerous to count, and an hourly rarely passed without several obsessions occurring)

2. Over the last seven days, how much did your obsessive thoughts interfere with your social or work functioning? (If you are currently not working, please think about how much the obsessions interfered with your everyday activities). (In answering this question, please  consider whether there was anything that you didn't do, or that you did less, because of the obsessions).

No interference

Mild, slight interference with social or occupational activities, but overall performance not impaired

Moderate, definite interference with social or occupational performance, but still manageable

Severe interference, caused substantial impairment in social or occupational performance

Extreme, incapacitating interference

3. Over the last seven days, how much distress did your obsessive thoughts cause you?

No distress

Mild, infrequent, and not too disturbing distress

Moderate, frequent, and disturbing distress, but still manageable

Severe, very frequent, and very disturbing distress

Extreme, near-constant, and disabling distress

4. Over the last seven days, how often did you try to disregard or ignore these obsessive thoughts and let them pass naturally through your mind? (Here we are not interested in how successful you were in disregarding your thoughts but only in how much or how often you tried to do so).

I always tried to let the obsession pass naturally through my mind

I tried to ignore or disregard them most of the time (i.e., more than half the time)

I made some effort to ignore or disregard them

I rarely tried to ignore or disregard them

I never tried to ignore or disregard them

5. Over the last seven days, how successful were you at ignoring or disregarding your obsessive thinking? (Note: Do not include here obsessions stopped by avoidance or doing compulsions.)

I was always successful in ignoring or disregarding the obsessions

I was usually successful in ignoring or disregarding them (i.e., more than half the time)

I was sometimes successful in ignoring or disregarding them

I was rarely successful in ignoring or disregarding them

I was rarely able to disregard them even momentarily

6. Over the last seven days, how much time did you spend performing compulsive behavior? How frequently did you perform compulsions? (If your rituals involve daily living activities, please consider how much longer it took you to complete routine activities because of your rituals).

None (if you checked this answer, please also check 0 for questions 7, 8, 9, and 10)

Less than 1 hour per day was spent performing compulsions, or occasional performance of compulsive behaviors (no more than 8 times a day)

1 to 3 hours per day were spent performing compulsions, or frequent performance of compulsive behaviors (more than 8 times a day, but most hours of the day were free of compulsions)

More than 3 hours and up to 8 hours per day were spent performing compulsions, or very frequent performance of compulsive behaviors (more than 8 times a day and during most hours of the day)

More than 8 hours a day were spent performing compulsions, or near-constant performance of compulsive behaviors (too numerous to count, and an hour rarely passed without several compulsions being performed).

7. Over the last seven days, how much did your compulsive behaviors interfere with your social or work functioning? (If you are currently not working, please think about your everyday activities).

No interference

Mild, slight interference with social or occupational activities, but overall performance not impaired

Moderate, definite interference with social or occupational performance, but still manageable

Severe interference, caused substantial impairment in social or occupational performance

Extreme, incapacitating interference

8. Over the last seven days, how did you feel or would you have felt if prevented from performing your compulsion(s)? How anxious did you become or would you have become?

Not at all anxious

Only slightly anxious if compulsions prevented

Anxiety would mount but remain manageable if compulsions prevented

Prominent and very disturbing increase in anxiety if compulsions prevented

Extreme, incapacitating anxiety from any intervention aimed at reducing the compulsion

9. Over the last seven days, how much  an effort did you make to resist the compulsions? Or how often did you try and stop the compulsion? (Rate only how often or how much you tried to resist your compulsions, not how successful you actually were in stopping them.)

I always made an effort to resist (or if the symptoms were so minimal that there was no need to actively resist them

I tried to resist most of the time (i.e., more than half the time)

I made some effort to resist them

I yielded to almost all compulsions without attempting to control them, but I did so with some reluctance

I completely and willingly yielded to all compulsions

10. Over the last seven days, how much control did you have over the compulsive behavior? How successful were you in stopping the ritual(s)? (If you rarely tried to resist, please think about those rare occasions on which you did try to stop the compulsions, in order to answer this question.)

I had complete control over the compulsive behavior

Usually I could stop compulsions or rituals with some effort and willpower

Sometimes I could stop the compulsive behavior, but only with difficulty

I could only delay the compulsive behavior, but eventually it had to be carried to completion

I was rarely able to delay performing the compulsive behavior even momentarily

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