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

From the outside, OCD can look like (and feel like!) an attempt to control others. But actually, it's the person with OCD who ...

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Roughly 163 million people experience obsessive-compulsive disorder and its associated cycles of obsessions and compulsions. They have unwanted intrusive thoughts, images or urges; they also do ...

Hoarding may represent a misfiring of one of the brain’s oldest imperatives: to seek safety in connection. Where human bonds ...

People with OCD don’t “choose” their thoughts or compulsions. Telling someone to “just get over it” is dismissive, harmful, ...

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

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

"There’s something poetic about it — being so determined to visit all 195 countries is, in some ways, an OCD trait," Mofid tells PEOPLE Cameron Mofid Cameron Mofid has traveled to every country in the ...