People with obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD for short, are 82% more likely to die earlier—from natural or unnatural causes—than people without the condition, a new study reveals. OCD affects ...

According to Joshua Curtiss, an assistant professor in the applied psychology department at Northeastern University in Boston ...

People with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) suffer from intrusive, obsessive thoughts. To ease their distress, they often feel compelled to engage in repetitive behaviors, or rituals, in response ...

Most people think OCD looks like someone scrubbing their hands raw or checking the stove 20 times before leaving the house. But for a lot of people, it starts much quieter than that. A kid sitting on ...

People with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) may have an increased risk of death from both natural and unnatural causes than those without the disorder, finds a study from Sweden published by The ...

SHAKING with anxiety, Lauren Carrigher pleaded with her mum to call the police as dark thoughts about her baby crept into her ...

In pop culture, people with obsessive-compulsive disorder are often portrayed as meticulous to an extreme degree. They’re highly organized, perfectionistic, or germophobic — like Jack Nicholson’s ...

Many of us have wild thoughts that pop into our heads out of nowhere. But what if those thoughts were harmful and seemed to want to destroy good things in your life? And what if they happened all of ...

OCD is often misunderstood. Here’s what it’s like, from people who live with it. This is what it’s really like to have OCD, according to 4 people living with it What do you think of when you hear the ...