Dan O’Brien is a playwright and poet whose recognition includes a Guggenheim Fellowship and two PEN America Awards. His most ...

The National Institute of Mental Health calls OCD a "common, chronic, and long-lasting disorder" that often interferes with ...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is characterized, in part, by a quest for certainty, which causes the individual with OCD to ...

Researchers identified the most effective screening tools and treatment options for children with obsessive compulsive ...

A systematic review and meta-analysis from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health reported a large effect of ...

High school student from The Hockaday School in Dallas writes about dealing with OCD and how damaging it is for teenagers to ...

There are a variety of conditions that have obsessive compulsive disorder qualities that are quite similar to OCD such as PANDAS, body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), hoarding disorder, trichotillomania, ...

Some limited research suggests it could also help with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). EMDR works by reducing the intensity of traumatic memories, making them less distressing and helping the ...

Was it good luck? Nope. Turns out he’s been diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder or OCD. So that might have been the reason. “It makes you a perfectionist and more detail oriented ...

Living with an OCD spouse or partner can be brutal at times...But there are strategies you can implement to help yourself ...

Both HFDs and high-sugar diets (HSDs) increase impulsive behavior. Prior research suggests that HFDs may increase ...

Historically, autism research and diagnostic tools have focused on white, cisgender boys under age five. As a result, ...