TIA WILSON: The average length of time it takes someone to be diagnosed with OCD is 17 years. And the more we can kind of start to change the language around it, the more people can start to recognize ...

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

Misuse of mental health terms is blurring the lines between everyday stress and clinical disorders, fostering self-diagnosis ...

People with OCD tend to give themselves a hard time. When they're stuck on an obsession, they reach a critical choice point, ...

People with Pure OCD only have mental compulsions, like silent counting or obsessively replaying events in their heads.

In today’s hyperconnected world, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is showing up in ways that would have surprised clinicians just a generation ago. Digital culture, public health scares, and ...

OCD is made up of irrational obsessions and compulsions that become so repetitive they severely impact daily life.

Millions of people in the United States deal with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder -- and it’s far more complex than how it’s portrayed in the media. While OCD is often joked about or characterized as ...

A walk in Frontier Park aims to raise awareness of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The International OCD Foundation ...

During the holidays, kids often spend more time on screens, leaving parents to wonder: Is it causing harm? Possibly. For preteens, the odds of developing OCD over a two-year period increased by 13% ...

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic seemed to trigger obsessive behaviors in people I knew — and in myself as well. I carried disinfectants everywhere and squeezed some on my hands whenever I touched ...

Howie Mandel believes that, like physical fitness, mental health is a continuous "work in progress." Mandel calls OCD "debilitating." "What it is is these obtrusive thoughts ... you get so obsessed ...