On The Point, our panel of mental health providers discuss obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). We discuss what OCD is, and ...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder can be disabling without treatment. Learn more about when and how to seek professional help.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder affects millions, but many people don’t recognize its lesser-known forms. Here’s how doctors explain OCD and its treatment. Obsessive-compulsive disorder affects millions ...

The term obsessive obsessive-compulsive disorder is not well understood and is sometimes thrown around casually. Someone who likes cleanliness and order may say, “I am so OCD about how I organize my ...

Having obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) isn’t easy. The condition, marked by uncontrollable thoughts and behaviors, strikes about 2% of the general population—a figure that in the U.S. alone means ...

Zack Tucker can remember exactly when it started. He was in his first serious relationship and had climbed a mountain in the ...

Elena wants people with OCD to know they're not alone. But how well do Australians understand the condition?

A new study revealed that certain brain regions are more active in people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) during cognitively demanding tasks. The findings could help inform new ways in which ...

Many of us have wild thoughts that pop into our heads out of nowhere. But what if those thoughts were harmful and seemed to want to destroy good things in your life? And what if they happened all of ...

In pop culture, people with obsessive-compulsive disorder are often portrayed as meticulous to an extreme degree. They’re highly organized, perfectionistic, or germophobic — like Jack Nicholson’s ...

Our thoughts are often mysterious to us. You probably don't know why you suddenly think about a Komodo dragon while sitting in traffic or Citizen Kane while shopping for groceries. Such moments remind ...