Scientists have identified the first brainwave biomarkers for OCD, opening the door to personalized, on-demand brain ...

Do you or someone close to you repeat everything over and over again or are you overly cautious about cleanliness? These may ...

Liking things neat does not mean you have OCD. The disorder is a serious, often debilitating mental health condition marked ...

Intrusive thoughts can feel shocking, disturbing, or shameful. But they’re just noise and meaningless, and not a sign of who ...

OCD’s deception is that you have to struggle with and resolve the content of the thought. You have to clarify, rectify, and examine the thoughts to determine whether they are true or false.

"Even when you're telling someone, 'I have anxiety, too, I have intrusive thoughts, I have OCD,' I know because I've been there myself that 90 percent of the time that the other person is thinking ...

Nothing aggravates me more than when someone’s like, ‘Oh my God, I’m so OCD, I need to keep my room clean and organized,'” ...

An OCD spiral begins with an unwanted, distressing thought that a non-OCD brain would likely acknowledge and ignore, but an OCD brain clings to.

This chain of difficult thoughts would lead Rohan to perform nighttime rituals to try to push his fears away. Having repetitive, intrusive thoughts and performing compulsive rituals can be a symptom ...

But it's not like people with OCD don't know their thoughts are irrational and excessive, they do. They just can't trust that they're ever going to be 100% certain about them.