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, ...

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

Obsessive compulsive, anxiety disorder concept. Sad young woman cartoon character having restless stressed expression on face and crying of stress vector illustration It was the 1980s. Washington D.C.

A busy mom (who asked to remain anonymous) tells writer Alyssa Shelasky what it's like to live with obsessive-compulsive disorder. I can’t remember a time in my life when I wasn’t tapping things—like ...

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 was publicizing a very different image of myself than the crumbling, OCD-afflicted wreck I felt like inside. But I am getting better today, thanks to the steps I have taken to organize my mind and ...

Within the past decade, there has been growing acknowledgement and understanding of what is called relationship OCD, or ROCD ...

For my first Psychology Today blog post, I thought I’d talk about my packing lists for my upcoming trip to France. “What?” you ask, confused. “I don’t even know you. Why would I care about your ...

The 'Vanderpump Rules' star shares that she’s been getting treatment for her disorder, which she says is often “misdiagnosed” Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously ...

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 ...