High school student from The Hockaday School in Dallas writes about dealing with OCD and how damaging it is for teenagers to ...
For OCD Awareness Week – 12 October to 19 October – Lucy Donoughue writes about what it’s really like to live with compulsive checking and intrusive thoughts, and how she eventually sought ...
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is characterized, in part, by a quest for certainty, which causes the individual with OCD to ...
What makes Pure OCD different from traditional OCD? People who have OCD typically have obsessive thoughts that result in visible compulsions like obsessive cleaning. But for people with Pure ...
OCD is a mental health condition where a person has obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviours. "I was just convinced that I wasn't doing things right. I wasn't feeding him right. What ...
OCD has two central components. Obsessions are recurrent, intrusive thoughts, urges, or images that lead to distress and anxiety. Compulsions—repetitive behaviors or mental acts performed in ...