Maybe the ritual has to be repeated until it feels just right, and the relief fades within a minute. Maybe you have watched your child wash, recheck, or ask the same question on a loop. An OCD Testing in Monona, WI with Core Spring Diagnostics is an unhurried, individualized assessment that names the pattern, points to what eases it, and needs no referral to begin.
We open every assessment with a baseline of cognitive and executive function, then shape the rest around the exact obsessions and compulsions you describe. A single licensed psychologist carries the process from that first conversation to the feedback session, using structured OCD specific measures and screening for the conditions that so commonly ride alongside it, including anxiety, depression, tics, and ADHD.
You may see routines that must be performed in a fixed order or restarted until they feel correct, hands washed far past the point of clean, or a steady need for reassurance. A small change to the plan can bring real distress that seems out of proportion to what happened.
Rituals begin swallowing time that should go to homework and sleep, and much of the struggle stays hidden. Watch for silent mental routines like counting or reviewing, careful avoidance of certain triggers, repeated reassurance seeking, and secrecy or shame about behaviors they cannot seem to stop.
Intrusive thoughts arrive uninvited, and checking, counting, washing, or a need for symmetry follows to settle them. You might run private mental rituals no one sees and lose real hours to routines you already know are excessive but feel unable to resist.
We start with a clinical interview and full history, your psychologist listening for how the loops of obsession and compulsion first formed and how they run now. When a child or teen is the focus, caregivers and teachers add what they notice so the picture spans home and school.
Your psychologist then builds a personalized battery, setting a cognitive and executive function baseline beside structured OCD specific and emotional measures. In person testing commonly takes two to six hours over one or two days, and questionnaires go home for you and, with younger clients, for their caregivers and teachers to complete.
It all comes together in a comprehensive written report that lays out the obsessions and compulsions keeping the loops going and notes any co occurring conditions the evaluation surfaced, all in a single document.
Typically two to three weeks later you return for a feedback session. Your psychologist walks the findings through with you and offers individualized recommendations, exposure and response prevention (ERP) among them, alongside next steps for home, school, or work.
No, you do not need a referral. Contact Core Spring Diagnostics on your own, for any reason, and we will loop in your other providers only if you ask us to.
It joins an interview and full history, a cognitive and executive baseline, structured OCD specific measures, and screening for the conditions that often accompany OCD. A single psychologist runs everything and then explains what the results mean.
Neat, careful, or anxious tendencies do not usually trap you in cycles. OCD centers on unwanted, intrusive obsessions and the compulsions used to relieve them, and both grow time consuming and distressing. The evaluation shows where the line falls.
Yes. We assess children, teens, and adults and adjust the process and questions to each stage of life, pulling in caregiver and teacher input for the younger clients we see.
OCD frequently overlaps with anxiety, depression, tics or Tourette’s, and ADHD. Screening for these is folded into every evaluation so the recommendations reflect the full picture rather than one slice of it.
Call Core Spring Diagnostics at (608) 396 4830 or submit a consultation request through the website. No referral is needed, and we will help you map out the right evaluation path for your concerns.
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