I've been counting since I can remember. Balancing, blinking, scanning for cracks to step on with my right foot whenever my left foot accidentally landed on one. The feeling of something, anything, ...

Howie Mandel didn't get diagnosed with OCD until his 40s, but doesn't remember a time without it. He talks about NOCD, AI ...

I noticed the sores covering my back, but it didn't stop me. They were from my school books, which bounced in my bag as I ran home at the end of each day, my trainers left behind in my locker so my ...

As a report from the BBC sees GPs complaining about mental health over-diagnosis, Lauren Geall shares why she thinks opinions ...

My driver at Geneva airport opens the car door for me—a routine gesture, but one that saves me having to face one of my biggest ongoing struggles: communal door handles. Filthy, and potentially evil.

Despite being diagnosed with OCD at age 9, I didn’t know there was a form of the disorder called relationship OCD until I met my now husband. When I met my now husband, Marc, I didn’t believe in love ...

A teen tells her own story about living with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Aug. 4, 2009— -- Thirteen-year-old Michelle LeClair has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and is one of three children ...

I normally hate using OCD as an adjective, but I think it’s ok this way: Wanna be OCD friends? I ask because I have OCD, too, and hanging with someone else who just gets it can make all the difference ...

I am a psychologist specialized in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) approaches, helping individuals manage OCD, anxiety, and mood disorders. I also work with parents and young children facing ...

Dear Eric: 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 my dad died out of nowhere in 2018. I wanted to die to be with ...

I hate getting my period. I hate it for all the obvious reasons — it's painful, inconvenient, uncomfortable, expensive and not really something that any of us look forward to. But a much less obvious ...

A month after my wife and I returned from Peru, in my parent’s bathroom in Minnesota, I’ve torn up a cardboard toilet paper roll and am poking through my shit in the toilet bowl, looking for blood. In ...