They can’t conceive of primarily obsessional obsessive-compulsive disorder, where the worries never transmute into a physical ...

When your mind focuses on the unthinkable—and won't let it go ...

Can you imagine someone saying, "Hey, Will, forget Hamlet, Macbeth, and Romeo and Juliet? Give us more Much Ado About Nothing." Nobody would tell Shakespeare to stop writing tragedies and stick with ...

Amanda Seyfried opens up about her severe OCD diagnosis, sharing how she continues to take medication years later and why mental health treatment remains important.

Christmas was my favorite holiday when I was a little kid because Christmas was the only day of the year that the universe made sense. It’s not just that magic was real on Christmas: it’s that magic ...

David Adam is a writer and editor at the journal Nature and was a special correspondent at the Guardian, writing about science, medicine and the environment. If you have an obsessive but irrational ...

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 ...

When Anu Dinghra moved to Australia with his family as a nine-year-old from India, the transition to a new country and new ...

Rohan’s nighttime fears of being robbed and abducted began at five years old. At nine, Rohan was still sleeping in his mother’s room plagued by nighttime obsessions. “I feel like we’re going to get ...

Since he was 14 years old, Jorun Christianson's life has been heavily impacted by severe obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). His experience with OCD goes beyond the common misconceptions and ...