Life with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) can be incredibly challenging. For people with OCD, the condition is much more than ordinary worries its a serious mental health condition that involves ...

Everybody has an occasional upsetting or shameful thought. For some people, the thoughts feel uncontrollable. It doesn't take long for someone to worry they're going "crazy" or wonder if they're just ...

I was sitting in the corner of a dimly lit restaurant in New York City on a date with a guy I’d been talking to for about a month. We’d already covered your average early-dating topics—hometowns, ...

Eating disorders and OCD can look strikingly similar on the surface. Understanding what drives the behavior is essential for ...

Like a greedy and insatiable child, OCD demands more proof in its pursuit of perfect certainty, placing unreasonable demands ...

During the pandemic, Malena Dell sat in her car at a gas station for 45 minutes crying because she couldn't touch the gas handle to fill up the tank. She went from washing her groceries to not eating ...

"There’s something poetic about it — being so determined to visit all 195 countries is, in some ways, an OCD trait," Mofid tells PEOPLE Cameron Mofid Cameron Mofid has traveled to every country in the ...

People with symmetry OCD feel intense distress when things don’t feel “just right” or aren’t symmetrical, even if there’s no clear logic behind it. Symmetry OCD isn’t a personal choice or trait.

Healthcare professionals outline that OCD can affect a significant portion of the time of people who are experiencing this ...