A number of environmental factors can impact your OCD. While some are entirely out of your control, you can make adjustments to your diet. These foods in particular should ideally be limited as they c ...

In the first analysis of its kind, researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and several other institutions have linked distinct patterns of genetic mutations with ...

A new genetic study of more than 50,000 obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) cases has linked around 250 genes to the condition, including more than two dozen identified as likely causal, in about 30 ...

Compulsive washing in OCD is driven by unrelenting doubt. Metacognitive training for OCD A recent study conducted at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf by Dr. Steffan Moritz and Chantal ...

Most people picture OCD as a constant cycle of intrusive worries and repetitive behaviours, but the part that often gets ...

Over the past couple of years, I’ve noticed that the people who tame OCD most effectively are those who make three strategic shifts in their attitude toward not only exposure and response prevention ...

While obsessive compulsive disorder, or OCD, is an actual mental health condition, the term has been co-opted by the public to describe times when someone is having an anal-retentive moment. But ...

This informational guide, part of POPSUGAR's Condition Center, lays out the realities of this health concern: what it is, what it can look like, and strategies that medical experts say are proven to ...

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. It takes an average of 14 to 17 years for people to be diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) ...

It had been a long week and I needed some comfort TV. I curled up in my blanket with my Chihuahua and I queued up "30 Rock." I chuckled as Liz Lemon tried to remove the plastic bag that had become the ...