On Thursday, Oct. 9, Psychology Club hosted an awareness event on obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The vice president of ...

While most people would maybe silence their phone, scour WebMD, and move on, I couldn’t. (And this was pre-internet and ...

McNulty sometimes explains OCD like this: Say you had a dream that your husband cheated on you, and when you woke up, you were peeved at him, despite knowing your emotions weren’t grounded in reality.

Children with OCD may experience symptoms like excessive fears about getting sick, extreme disgust over bodily waste, and an ...

“People with OCD often feel immense guilt for having such thoughts and feel the need to confess them to their partner, friend ...

We live in an age where clinical labels once confined to the DSM-5—the diagnostic manual for mental health professionals—now ...

Though researchers have not been able to locate a specific gene associated with OCD, there is evidence that OCD may run in families.

For most people, the idea of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) may flow from common comedic representations, such as the eponymous detective in the hit show Monk, who feels obliged to touch every ...

When survivors of the October 7th attacks returned to what was left of their homes, many carried with them more than grief or post-traumatic stress. A new study shows that the trauma also fueled an ...

Braden Smith has been fighting demons well beyond the football field. The Colts right tackle revealed that his obsessive compulsive disorder, combined with religious scrupulosity, forced him to have ...

It’s easy to unintentionally say something that hurts your loved one with OCD more than it helps, even if you mean well. Here’s how to avoid that. Life with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) can be ...