Mental health professionals say obsessive-compulsive disorder affects millions and can involve intrusive thoughts, anxiety, ...

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Overthinking and OCD can look similar but work very differently. A mental health expert explains the key signs, emotional ...

The term obsessive obsessive-compulsive disorder is not well understood and is sometimes thrown around casually. Someone who likes cleanliness and order may say, “I am so OCD about how I organize my ...

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 ...

You likely know what OCD stands for, but many people don't know what having obsessive-compulsive disorder actually means. For therapists like Erin Venker, she often feels like OCD is misunderstood.

Researchers headed by a team at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons have linked distinct patterns of genetic mutations with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in humans.

In the first analysis of its kind, researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and several other institutions have linked distinct patterns of genetic mutations with ...

Over the past couple of years, I’ve noticed that the people who tame OCD most effectively are those who make three strategic shifts in their attitude toward not only exposure and response prevention ...

Have you ever felt painfully stuck on a thought loop in your head? While it's common to go through periods where you think about a particular issue, scenario, thing, or person a whole lot — there is a ...

An innovative surgical technique for patients with severe, treatment-resistant OCD has been tried for the first time in ...

Individuals with checking OCD experience overwhelming urges to repeatedly check things, such as locked doors, appliances being turned off, or tasks being completed correctly. Obsessive-compulsive ...