Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) causes intrusive, uncontrollable thoughts (obsessions) that may lead to repetitive behaviors (compulsions). Some people with OCD may only have symptoms of ...

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Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a chronic mental health condition that involves obsessions, compulsions, or both. Treatment typically includes psychotherapy and medication. In the United States ...

Anxiety itself is not a mental illness. It’s a normal, adaptive emotion that helps us respond to perceived threats. Anxiety is the automatic reaction that makes you jump back when you think you’ve ...

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, ...

A few years ago, a family brought their 9-year-old daughter Sarah* to my office for an evaluation. While emergencies aren’t the norm in my outpatient private practice, I determined that the situation ...

If you’ve started exploring therapy for OCD, you’ve likely come across different approaches. There's exposure and response ...

For the first time, researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience and Amsterdam UMC have identified what happens in neural networks deep within the brain during obsessive thoughts and ...

"I get severely depressed because no one wants to think of their children dying," she says, of the intrusive thoughts that ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The estimated added effect of provocation was not significant for either condition. The findings have ...

Judith Rapoport, who has died aged 92, was a leading psychiatrist who rejected Freudian theories based on the workings of the ...