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Religious OCD, or scrupulosity, is a subtype of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) where a person experiences obsessions and compulsions that fixate on religion or morality. Treatment can involve ...

OCD triggers can cause a flare-up of your symptoms. Yours will be related to both the type of OCD you have along with your past experiences and traumas. Obsessions are the unwanted and intrusive ...

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a surprisingly common and potentially crippling anxiety disorder. Only 25 to 30 years ago, it was believed to be a rare psychiatric illness that affected only a ...

Pure Obsession, or Pure OCD, is a term used to describe an Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder manifestation where the obsessions take place covertly inside your mind or body. The term originally was used ...

Intrusive thoughts about harm to yourself or others can be a type of OCD known as harm OCD. Therapies like exposure and response prevention (ERP) can help you learn how to cope with this disorder.

I was sitting in my therapist’s office in Brooklyn, answering his questions from an OCD diagnostic test, when he asked me something particularly unexpected. “Do you have homosexual thoughts?” Do I ...