Other examples of OCD behaviors include a person who is worried about germs so they cannot touch any surface or feel the need to wash their hands even minutes after they already did; or a person ...

"Clinically diagnosed OCD affects only about 2.5 million adults in the U.S.," says Amanda Darnley, PsyD, a practicing psychologist based in Philadelphia. What triggers OCD?

Thoughts of violence and aggression in taboo OCD, for example, do not signal an intention or desire to act them out. Instead, these thoughts are persistent sources of fear, sadness, guilt, and ...

Researchers identify neural biomarkers for OCD, linking obsessive thoughts and compulsive actions to brain activity for ...

In OCD, these obsessions and compulsions are uncontrollable and occur for more than an hour each day. Consequently, they may significantly interfere with a person’s daily functioning and overall ...

Examples of intrusive impulses/urges and corollary compulsions: A 14-year-old boy became overwhelmed by an impulse that made it seem he'd take the knife he was using and slice his wrists.

One major challenge with studies on TMS for OCD is the lack of consensus on which areas of the brain to target, which treatments to use alongside TMS, and the duration and number of sessions.

For example, some people identify as having a purely obsessional type of OCD known as “pure O,” but an older 2011 study of 201 people found that those who identified as such had mental ...

What makes OCD so difficult to live with is that it tricks you into trying to achieve certainty through the feeling of doubt—which, of course, is a paradox. The more you try to feel sure about ...

Hattie Rowan has lived with OCD – obsessive-compulsive disorder – for 15 of her 26 years. She describes the symptoms and examples of her behaviour caused by the mental illness, and how she ...