Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder. It causes a person to have intrusive, distressing thoughts, which they manage using compulsive behaviors. For example, a person, who fixates ...

Now, a local filmmaker produced a documentary about selective mutism, which has a higher prevalence among girls and children ...

Mum-of-three Lauren Carrigher was plunged into a 'living hell' after her intrusive OCD thoughts convinced her she was a ...

According to Joshua Curtiss, an assistant professor in the applied psychology department at Northeastern University in Boston ...

When obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and eating disorders occur together, they often exacerbate each other in harmful ways. Typically, both conditions are treated simultaneously to address the ...

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 ...

Trichotillomania is a condition involving frequent urges to pull out one’s hair. Experts now consider it closely related to OCD due to the obsessive-compulsive nature of the disorder. Mental health ...

A new study tracks a 71% explosion in Social Anxiety Disorder, revealing that social phobia now affects 24% of young ...

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