Struggling with any mental illness is challenging, and obsessive-compulsive disorder is no exception. Complicating matters is that many OCD symptoms may not initially appear to be severe; however ...

“I’m so OCD about things.” It's a phrase frequently tossed around and often used loosely. While it's a term that carries a lot of weight and seriousness, it's a condition that gets downplayed when ...

OCD can present with almost any fear or feeling or apparent meaning, and is not determined by the content of these fears, ...

Even if you mean well, these phrases usually hurt more than they help. Here’s what to say instead to show a loved one with ...

When someone likes things just so or always seems to have their home in perfect condition, others may say “he is so OCD.” But OCD — obsessive-compulsive disorder — isn’t a nifty personality trait of ...

Though it’s never pleasant to deal with any sort of mental illness or disorder, some relief can be found in knowing that others have dealt with it, too—that it is a real, diagnosable, and possibly ...

OCD is often misunderstood. Here’s what it’s like, from people who live with it. This is what it’s really like to have OCD, according to 4 people living with it What do you think of when you hear the ...

01 Jon is the Director of The OCD and Anxiety Center of Greater Baltimore and a specialist in the treatment of OCD and related disorders. 02 In this article, he addresses the struggle many sufferers ...

Yikes! I can only imagine how pretentious that must sound. Who am I to speak on behalf of the OCD community? It's not as if we're some organized group (though I suppose many of us, ourselves, are ...

An article that recently appeared in the New York Post attempted to link OCD with violent political extremism, citing climate activist Greta Thunberg’s OCD as part reason for her activism. “Thunberg ...