“…This included various symptoms such as hair pulling, skin picking, and hoarding (APA, 2013). Despite the biomedical explanation suggesting that obsessive thoughts may be caused by chemical imbalances in the brain or a genetic predisposition (Dhuri & Parkar, 2016;Nakao et al, 2014;Norman et al, 2021), today, cognitivebehavioral and medical explanations have come to dominate the public discourse surrounding OCD (Rachman, 1997;Salkovskis, 1985Salkovskis, , 1989. From this perspective, obsessions are defined as individuals' appraisal of their distressing thoughts as dangerous, leading them to attempt to control such thoughts (Hacıömeroglu, 2008;McKay et al, 2004).…”