Are we misdiagnosing autism? The number of children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder has skyrocketed in recent years — ...

OCD can trap you in a haunted house of what-ifs. Learn how Exposure and Response Prevention helps you confront fear, tolerate ...

One of the reasons so many “suffer in silence” is the shame that cloaks their days, says Alexandra McNulty, a therapist in Baltimore who specializes in the condition, which is characterized by ...

Children with OCD may experience symptoms like excessive fears about getting sick, extreme disgust over bodily waste, and an ...

OCD can manifest itself in many different ways, such as a focus on contamination and cleaning, or compulsions to make your ...

Exposure and response prevention (ERP) therapy is a common treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). ERP exposes a person to the cause of their fears and anxiety to help them cope with these ...

From the outside, OCD can look like (and feel like!) an attempt to control others. But actually, it's the person with OCD who ...

While most people would maybe silence their phone, scour WebMD, and move on, I couldn’t. (And this was pre-internet and cellphones, anyway!) I simply presented as a perfectionistic, high-achieving kid ...

Being detail-oriented or perfectionistic is a common personality trait, but obsessive-compulsive disorder is a serious mental ...

I've been counting since I can remember. Balancing, blinking, scanning for cracks to step on with my right foot whenever my left foot accidentally landed on one. The feeling of something, anything, ...

I was diagnosed with OCD when I was 16, but have had compulsions as long as I can remember. It's counterintuitive, but the symptoms of my OCD intensify around people I'm comfortable with. I'm working ...