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Core nodes were identified through centrality indicators.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\u201cBrain not right\u201d (SCL90) has the highest betweenness centrality and serves as a crucial metacognitive mediator connecting symptom clusters. Lonely in crowd (SCL77) has the highest strength, maintaining network activation. unusual thoughts (SCL68) and Somatic concern (SCL87) emerged as a bridge node linking obsessivecompulsive symptoms to subjective experiential and thought-perceptual disturbances associated with the psychosis spectrum. Malignant loops such as \u201cobsessive interference \u2013 collapse of metacognitive evaluation\u201d have been identified.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The catastrophe of brain functions and the sense of loneliness are the central hubs which drive the complexity of OCD symptoms. 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