Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) affects up to 3 percent of people worldwide and remains one of the most challenging ...

We explored how intrusive thoughts can hijack someone’s mind, how compulsions feel like the only way to quiet those false alarms, and how exhausting it can be to live trapped in that cycle.I also ...

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

There is new evidence suggesting therapy may lead to higher recovery rates than medication in people over 60 who experience ...

Straight up, I cannot tell you for sure what this is. It isn’t widely reported enough to be able to say for certain (and if ...

While players were in the battle of the NFL season, Braden Smith was fighting a different one: the one going on inside his ...

For people with severe OCD, therapy alone may not be enough. Medication can play a big role in treatment. The most commonly ...

Psychiatric medication —mainly antidepressants —is also an effective treatment for OCD. Psychiatric medication tends to reduce the intensity of OCD thoughts and urges.

This chain of difficult thoughts would lead Rohan to perform nighttime rituals to try to push his fears away. Having repetitive, intrusive thoughts and performing compulsive rituals can be a symptom ...

OCD can capture deep insecurities a person feels, which is why the obsessions or intrusive thoughts are so distressing. A person can feel they want to do the things they imagine.

OCD is referred to as the doubting disease because of the way it envelops a person in doubts of who they even are — or, in the case of "TATWD"'s protagonist Aza, if they even are.