While obsessive compulsive disorder, or OCD, is an actual mental health condition, the term has been co-opted by the public to describe times when someone is having an anal-retentive moment. But ...

Roughly 163 million people experience obsessive-compulsive disorder and its associated cycles of obsessions and compulsions. They have unwanted intrusive thoughts, images or urges; they also do ...

OCD is a powerful and often debilitating condition, but it is rooted in the mind's fundamental desire to protect the ...

When survivors of the October 7th attacks returned to what was left of their homes, many carried with them more than grief or post-traumatic stress. A new study shows that the trauma also fueled an ...

Have you ever heard or said something like, “I am so OCD about my room,” or, “I am so OCD about sorting,” to describe your behavior? Comments about someone’s desires for organization or cleanliness ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Parents of children with obsessive-compulsive disorder are often faced ...

It’s difficult to know how to start talking about obsessive-compulsive disorder, the debilitating anxiety condition that has made persistent laps around my life for 14 years, like a flickering koi ...

These psychological terms are commonly misused and are now part of popular slangs, but what do they really mean? Gaslighting is a psychological manipulation in abusive relationships that often causes ...

Up to 10 million Americans live with OCD, yet only one in six receive a correct diagnosis. As a result, 95% of people in the U.S. with OCD do not receive the most effective treatment, despite strong ...

Stephen King can pluck almost any topic out of the air and make it scary. In his masterful hands, the mundanity of everyday life becomes not only extraordinary, but believably terrifying. Take, for ...