The Worst, and Best, Things to Say to Someone With OCD

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

A Qualitative Method Exploration of OCD Symptoms among Patients in China ()

Zhu, Z. (2025) A Qualitative Method Exploration of OCD Symptoms among Patients in China. Advances in Applied Sociology, 15, ...
Psychology Today

What Hoarding Tells Us About Connection and Isolation

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

Two former McLean clinicians are tackling childhood OCD with a new model

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 ...
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Asking Eric: I am spiraling with OCD and irrational fears of family dying

Now I’m afraid I’ll lose anyone at any time. I text my mom constantly, and if she doesn’t answer for a few hours, I panic.

Asking Eric: Prolonged grief complicated by obsessive-compulsive disorder

I’m afraid I’ll lose anyone at any time. I have OCD and all my rituals are focused around keeping my mom, sister, husband and ...

Asking Eric: With OCD, I can’t stop worrying every loved one and pet cat will die

My cat died in 2013. Everyone said I treated him like a child. He got so sick, so suddenly, it freaked me out so badly. Then ...

Asking Eric: Years of untreated grief lead to OCD, panic attacks

Send questions to R. Eric Thomas at eric@askingeric.com or P.O. Box 22474, Philadelphia, PA 19110. Follow him on Instagram ...

Asking Eric: My rituals to keep my loved ones alive have taken over my life

Now I’m afraid I’ll lose anyone at any time. I have OCD and all my rituals are focused around keeping my mom, sister, husband and current cats safe and alive. I text my mom constantly, and if she ...
Psychology Today

Let Thoughts Become Wispy

I needed to stop resisting my intrusive thoughts. But how? I hated them. How could I not resist them? The secret I found was ...
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“Whatever happens, I can handle it”: OCD walk takes place in Frontier Park

Dozens of people took part in a walk to raise awareness of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) this Saturday. The International OCD Foundation (IOCDF) and OCD Pennsylvania hosted the One Million ...