Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a mental health disorder, "where a person gets caught in a vicious cycle of obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors," explains Guerra. The thoughts and fears such ...

You must have heard people recklessly throwing around the term ‘OCD’ whenever they want to convey how much they love orderliness and cleanliness, which brings us to the biggest myth surrounding OCD.

Although obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) can involve high anxiety levels, doctors no longer classify it as an anxiety disorder. Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a highly misunderstood ...

Program has OCD sufferers kick tires, jump in Dumpsters, touch toilet seats. Feb. 15, 2010 — -- Away from home for a conference, Faye Lange takes a minute before heading out for what she calls ...

While a fear of contamination by germs is a part of OCD, it is not the only thing that defines it ...

If you have been Keeping Up With the Kardahsians, you may have seen Khloe Kardashian refer to herself as having “OCD” and "Khloe-C-D." I have seen and heard plenty of feedback from the reality stars' ...

"Understanding gene expression patterns could help develop new drugs or improve therapies," note the authors of the finding, scientists from the University of Santiago de Compostela. An international ...

Long before the pandemic arrived, Renée battled intense fears of getting sick from daily life. She worried she could get HIV from doorknobs or suffer brain damage from odorless carbon monoxide leaking ...

For much of my life, I have been plagued by a terrifying question: "What if nothing is real, and everyone’s in on the joke, apart from me?" I’m talking some kind of Matrix-esque, Truman Show hellscape ...

Mumbai's Lupin has issued a voluntary recall of 2,724 bottles of the tricyclic antidepressant clomiPRAMINE hydrochloride, which is used to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) by boosting ...