OCD wants you to feel stuck in your rituals. It shows up when you least want it to, disrupting your activities, intruding on your thoughts, and making you acutely aware of its presence. It can make ...

He listened to me and then casually told me I had something called scrupulosity, or religious obsessive-compulsive disorder ...

Not all perfectionism is the same. Discover the two hidden forces that drive it—and how understanding your type can help you find peace and freedom from anxiety.

Have you ever seen someone washing their hands again and again, or obsessively arranging things in a straight line? Do they get uncomfortable if a bedsheet isn’t perfectly tucked or if an object is ...

Jan. 29 -- Becky, a schoolteacher, is frightened of contamination from cleaning products. Lee, a chiropractor, fears accidentally bumping into things, and can't walk past a mirror without turning back ...

A first-line therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) reshapes connectivity of the brain, according to a new study in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, published ...

ADVERTISEMENT. Orlando Weekly news staff was not involved in the creation of this content. At Revibe Therapy, we’ve seen firsthand how anxiety can strip away self-control, clarity, and even physical ...

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

All forms of anxiety induce either a desire to control and/or avoid. We either seek to evade the source (internal or external), or seek to control it. As “control freak” has become such a common part ...