“Welcome to the OCD Challenge. You’ve taken the first and most important step in challenging your OCD. This program will help you take back your life” The online video features UH Graduate College of ...

Seven years ago, she shared her story with us. Now, she has a new treatment program to help others. Liz McIngvale used to wash her hands seven times. She'd turn off the faucet or turn on a light with ...

She is terrified of being excluded because it has happened to her before — being cut out of friendship groups. Gravely she ...

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 ...

OCD and GAD share symptoms of unwanted thoughts that lead to anxiety and distress. Despite this, the two conditions have significant differences that help tell them apart. Generalized anxiety disorder ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Fans of CBS's "The Big Bang Theory" know that Sheldon Cooper's severe obsessive compulsive disorder is usually depicted for laughs. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Fans of CBS's "The ...

Irrational thoughts, intense rituals, fears that just won't go away: Obsessive-compulsive disorder (commonly referred to as OCD) is very real, extremely debilitating, and currently affecting as many ...

One of the first rituals Elena felt comfortable sharing with her doctor was the way she held her toothbrush. It was the very specific manner in which she would place her fingers up the back off the ...