When Jack Vincenty was 12, he became obsessed with washing. He had just begun the sixth grade. "Constantly washing my hands or showering was my ritualistic activity," he said. "My parents quickly took ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Brian Coombs, founder of the OCD Foundation of Utah, started his journey with obsessive-compulsive disorder when he was just five years old. “I had the strong urge to run back into ...

If you ask me, it doesn't take a brain scientist to understand OCD. Okay, technically speaking, it does; and even they--the top neuroscientists in the country--confess to being somewhat perplexed by ...

OCD triggers can cause a flare-up of your symptoms. Yours will be related to both the type of OCD you have along with your past experiences and traumas. Obsessions are the unwanted and intrusive ...

SCREEN, RICK. ALL RIGHT. THANKS, JENNIFER. TODAY, STUDENTS AT BECK ELEMENTARY AND THE RUSSELL NEIGHBORHOOD GOT AN IMPORTANT LESSON ON HOW TO STOP BULLYING. IT COMES AT A TIME WHEN JCP LEADERS ARE ...

Religious OCD, or scrupulosity, is a subtype of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) where a person experiences obsessions and compulsions that fixate on religion or morality. Treatment can involve ...

OCD’s intrusive thoughts cause distress and feel at odds with your character, while in OCPD, the rigid traits are ingrained and perceived as inherent. Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and obsessive ...

If you’ve ever watched Sheldon Cooper have a very particular preference about the chair he sits in on The Big Bang Theory, you’ve seen how pop culture portrays people with different types of obsessive ...

I was sitting in my therapist’s office in Brooklyn, answering his questions from an OCD diagnostic test, when he asked me something particularly unexpected. “Do you have homosexual thoughts?” Do I ...

The COVID crisis throws into relief what happens when grief has—quite literally—nowhere to go. The evidence suggests that most people summon strengths that surpass their own expectations. If you ask ...