Howie Mandel didn't get diagnosed with OCD until his 40s, but doesn't remember a time without it. He talks about NOCD, AI ...

I've been counting since I can remember. Balancing, blinking, scanning for cracks to step on with my right foot whenever my left foot accidentally landed on one. The feeling of something, anything, ...

As a report from the BBC sees GPs complaining about mental health over-diagnosis, Lauren Geall shares why she thinks opinions ...

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a mental disorder that often involves intrusive thoughts, anxiety, and ritualization. While millions suffer from OCD, the disease is often misunderstood by the ...

I noticed the sores covering my back, but it didn't stop me. They were from my school books, which bounced in my bag as I ran home at the end of each day, my trainers left behind in my locker so my ...

My driver at Geneva airport opens the car door for me—a routine gesture, but one that saves me having to face one of my biggest ongoing struggles: communal door handles. Filthy, and potentially evil.

Despite being diagnosed with OCD at age 9, I didn’t know there was a form of the disorder called relationship OCD until I met my now husband. When I met my now husband, Marc, I didn’t believe in love ...

Dear Annie: I’d like to hear from people who were children of a mother with Contamination OCD. My daughter’s therapist determined it is a pretty severe case, but my daughter refuses to go to the ...

I hate getting my period. I hate it for all the obvious reasons — it's painful, inconvenient, uncomfortable, expensive and not really something that any of us look forward to. But a much less obvious ...

I am a psychologist specialized in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) approaches, helping individuals manage OCD, anxiety, and mood disorders. I also work with parents and young children facing ...

A month after my wife and I returned from Peru, in my parent’s bathroom in Minnesota, I’ve torn up a cardboard toilet paper roll and am poking through my shit in the toilet bowl, looking for blood. In ...

Night after night, Sheila Slade would lie motionless next to her husband, pretending to be asleep. Then, when all was quiet, she'd slip out of bed, check on the children and tiptoe down the stairs.