A meta-analysis of over 11 million participants demonstrates that anxiety disorders and posttraumatic stress disorder may ...

When obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and eating disorders occur together, they often exacerbate each other in harmful ways. Typically, both conditions are treated simultaneously to address the ...

Treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), a mental health condition characterized by distressing, uncontrollable ...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder. It causes a person to have intrusive, distressing thoughts, which they manage using compulsive behaviors. For example, a person, who fixates ...

Looking back, I may have had symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder even earlier than I realized.However, since I became ...

Hypothyroidism may affect obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) through altered neurotransmitter activity, inflammation, and immune system responses. The connection may also work the other way around.

New functional neurosurgery techniques could help reduce symptoms in some patients with treatment-resistant OCD and major ...

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a mental health disorder, "where a person gets caught in a vicious cycle of obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors," explains Guerra. The thoughts and fears such ...

Trichotillomania is a condition involving frequent urges to pull out one’s hair. Experts now consider it closely related to OCD due to the obsessive-compulsive nature of the disorder. Mental health ...

The tiny words children choose while describing stressful moments can predict whether they will battle depression or anxiety half a decade later. Adolescent mental health numbers have reached ...

I have been visiting a psychosomatic clinic for about 20 years.I had been going for a long time, but I was told I didn't have ...

These strategies can help whether you have a formal diagnosis, describe yourself as highly anxious or are simply feeling the ...