Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) causes people to have recurrent unwanted or unreasonable thoughts or sensations (obsessions) or make them feel driven to do something repeatedly (compulsions).

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a mental health disorder, "where a person gets caught in a vicious cycle of obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors," explains Guerra. The thoughts and fears such ...

What Does It Mean to Be Obsessive? What Does It Mean to Have OCD? How to Tell the Difference Coping Tips Have you ever heard someone say I'm so OCD to describe a strong desire for neatness? Despite ...

Obsessive compulsive disorder, or OCD, is a misunderstood mental illness despite affecting about one in 50 people – that’s about half a million Australians. Our new research shows how long and fraught ...

Mixed reality exposure and response prevention (MERP) therapy showed no significant advantage over self-guided exposure and response prevention (SERP) therapy among individuals with ...

Within the past decade, there has been growing acknowledgement and understanding of what is called relationship OCD, or ROCD ...

OCD is a psychiatric disorder in which people suffer from obsessive thoughts (obsessions) and compulsive behaviours (compulsions). A well-known example is fear of contamination: someone is constantly ...

Compulsively counting objects or actions is a common symptom of OCD. Exposure therapy can help you develop coping mechanisms when you encounter triggers. Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a ...

A new paper published in the journal Clinical Psychological Science offers insight into why people with obsessive compulsive disorder engage in what psychologists refer to as "catastrophizing," or the ...

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.