What is OCD? Maintaining cleanliness is a commendable practice, but when it becomes excessive and disrupts daily activities, ...

Maintaining cleanliness is a good habit, but when it becomes excessive and begins to affect daily life, it can be a sign of a ...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder. It causes a person to have intrusive, distressing thoughts, which they manage using compulsive behaviors. For example, a person, who fixates ...

Eva Surawy Stepney receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) via the White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities (WRoCAH). Readers are advised that this article contains ...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) involves stimulating certain parts of your brain with implanted electrodes. It’s a promising treatment for treatment-resistant OCD. The main treatments for OCD are talk ...

On the surface, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and eating disorders might not seem like they have much in common. But both involve distressing thoughts and emotions that can drive repetitive or ...

If you have been Keeping Up With the Kardahsians, you may have seen Khloe Kardashian refer to herself as having “OCD” and "Khloe-C-D." I have seen and heard plenty of feedback from the reality stars' ...

This mental health condition, sometimes called skin picking or excoriation disorder, involves picking the skin so much that ...

It’s easy to unintentionally say something that hurts your loved one with OCD more than it helps, even if you mean well. Here’s how to avoid that. Life with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) can be ...

When obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and eating disorders occur together, they often exacerbate each other in harmful ways. Typically, both conditions are treated simultaneously to address the ...

The cryptic emails would arrive just before bedtime: DON’T DELETE THIS!! If you don’t forward this email to at least 6 people in the next 10 minutes, a ghost will haunt you too. Send this email to 3 ...