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

From the outside, OCD can look like (and feel like!) an attempt to control others. But actually, it's the person with OCD who ...

You likely know what OCD stands for, but many people don't know what having obsessive-compulsive disorder actually means.

“People with OCD often feel immense guilt for having such thoughts and feel the need to confess them to their partner, friend ...

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

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 ...

Musicians like Jared Choeft, Luke Combs, and more share how living with OCD shapes their creative process, challenges, and performances.

People with symmetry OCD feel intense distress when things don’t feel “just right” or aren’t symmetrical, even if there’s no clear logic behind it. Symmetry OCD isn’t a personal choice or trait.

We live in an age where clinical labels once confined to the DSM-5—the diagnostic manual for mental health professionals—now ...

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