OCD is made up of irrational obsessions and compulsions that become so repetitive they severely impact daily life.

OCD treatment usually involves a combination of medication and exposure and response prevention therapy to control obsessions ...

I got a call from a psychiatrist colleague of mine a while back. He was an old-school Freudian psychoanalyst who had his patients come in twice a week to lie on a couch, talk about their dreams, ...

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 ...

"The treatment that we're delivering , called exposure based CBT or cognitive behavioral treatment, that's really the gold ...

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

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) involves stimulating certain parts of your brain with implanted electrodes. It’s a promising treatment for treatment-resistant OCD. The main treatments for OCD are talk ...

OCD Delaware aims to help Delawareans struggling with OCD and related disorders. Hear from the president about her struggles, ...

BOSTON, MA / ACCESS Newswire / October 12, 2025 / Up to 240 million people worldwide live with obsessive compulsive disorder ...

Some people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) experience a type of compulsion called compulsive counting. These individuals may feel the need to count objects, people, or actions.