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

Intrusive thoughts are unwanted, upsetting thoughts often caused by OCD, anxiety, PTSD, or eating disorders. Therapy can help ...

Anxious thoughts can overwhelm you, making it difficult to make decisions and take action to deal with whatever issue bothers ...

Many of us have wild thoughts that pop into our heads out of nowhere. But what if those thoughts were harmful and seemed to ...

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

I needed to stop resisting my intrusive thoughts. But how? I hated them. How could I not resist them? The secret I found was ...

“Thoughts are the thinker,” my Buddhist teacher said this Sunday at our bi-monthly gathering, and I thought, “Amen, sister!” ...

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 ...

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

Three months ago, I was at a garage inspecting a Ford Fiesta with my father. It was the perfect first car for an 18-year-old like me.