When they go out to eat her mom makes a big show of washing her hands at the table with lemons and drinking glass water.

While most people would maybe silence their phone, scour WebMD, and move on, I couldn’t. (And this was pre-internet and cellphones, anyway!) I simply presented as a perfectionistic, high-achieving kid ...

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

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to a daughter's embarrassment over her mother's ...

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

OCD can manifest itself in many different ways, such as a focus on contamination and cleaning, or compulsions to make your ...

Body-focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are often confused. Both conditions can cause significant distress and impairment to daily functioning, and both often ...

Musicians like Jared Choeft, Luke Combs, and more share how living with OCD shapes their creative process, challenges, and performances.

A friendly handshake is seen as a gesture of goodwill. However, it can also be a silent carrier of harmful diseases. Germs can transfer from one person to another through simple hand contact, leading ...

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

MISHAWAKA, IN (WSBT) — Cold, flu, and COVID season is closing in, and medical experts are giving reminders about how to stay healthy. Lizzie Russell, a Nurse Practitioner at St. Joseph Health Systems, ...