What is Somatic or Sensorimotor OCD?

  Somatic or sensorimotor OCD makes a person pay more attention to bodily sensations and tune their ear to everything that happens in their body. It’s as if the body were a room and had a movement detector installed that’s too sensitive and gets set off from time to time by something as simple as the suspension of dust particles in the air. This mental and emotional investment oriented toward one’s own body translates into an excessive consumption of energy, with the consequent exhaustion. Now, what’s their motivation for paying so much attention to bodily sensations? It’s the belief that…