i did this several years ago when i was in day treatment the first time for my ocd i have since grown away from the concept mostly but at the time it was very useful when i could separate the ocd from me as a person it helped me rationalize some that i am not a bad person that those are not my thoughtsdesireswishesetc   my wise above-average matured aka traumatized 13 year olds self named my ocd randal like from monsters inc   that movie has always scared me for several reasons probably wasn’t the best thing to watch considering i have always had sleep problems nightmares separation anxiety and was afraid to go into any roomarea that was dark i still have those problems anyways i named it randal because like the character he was sneaky gross mean evil and a bully the key aspect of the name is this randal was always there but you couldn’t always see him he was invisible to other people  would sneak up on me in already difficult moments i didn’t completely realize how wise that was of me until a while later i just thought “oh that’s the way i am” and being so emotionally matured bc of trauma yay was my normal my ocd character was painted it took me a while because i wanted it to be “right” lol how ironic but he is a scary little thing it was an exposure to make him honestly he was holding scary things  was a huge trigger color of mine i didn’t even like to look at the painting like i mentioned earlier it was helpful at the time one thing my treatment team specifically suggested was to use the name to refer my ocd in public situations where we wanted to be more subtle think of a situation maybe like eating at a restaurant with your family  you become upset so you need to leave or take a break  you could use the name as a code word sort of for example “randal is really upsetting me i need to take a break” or “randal is being really loud can you help me quiet him down” i didn’t use it that was as often but maybe someone reading will find it helpful the reason i grew away from the concept is because it got to a point where my ocd having its own name  “person” sort of gave it more power  a voice that it didn’t need that was a personal decision influenced by my faith mostly so it may not click for everyone else you are all bad-a warriors keep kicking butt  telling your ocd to shut up remind it that it is indeed a little shit  also i just want to say yay me because 2 years ago cussing at all was horrifying  my ocd would make me feel like an absolutely horrible person if a word ever slipped it was kinda fun in a strange way when i got exposures about swear words because ppl would be excited for me which felt weird to me at the time i wanted to cuss sometimes but the ocd made it so hard but now i have grown past that mostly  can use swear words without feeling like a terrible person so that’s fun hehe