Intrusive thoughts are among the least understood parts of OCD, often buried beneath stereotypes about order and cleanliness. That misunderstanding, mental health advocates say, can leave people ...

People with relationship OCD, on the other hand—or R-OCD, a lesser-known subtype of obsessive-compulsive disorder—can’t.

A woman who wrongly thought she was a paedophile has opened up about how her health condition continues to affect her today ...

People with OCD tend to give themselves a hard time. When they're stuck on an obsession, they reach a critical choice point, Jerud says: They can either give in to their urges to try to reduce their ...

Amanda Seyfried has opened up about her current experience with obsessive-compulsive disorder decades after first receiving her diagnosis. Seyfried, 40, said she was diagnosed with “really extreme” ...

"OCD is weird. I laugh about it now," Camila told Cosmopolitan UK (via Billboard). "Everybody has different ways of handling stress. And, for me, if I get really stressed about something, I'll start ...

Intrusive thoughts are some of the most personal and agonizing symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Thanks to OCD, just one single unpleasant thought or image—violent, sexual, obscene, ...

A woman who thought that an undiagnosed mental health condition meant that she was a genuine paedophile, has revealed some of ...

Beyond simple quirks and preferences, OCD creates a debilitating cycle of unwanted thoughts and ritualistic behaviors that can hijack everyday life. This mental health condition affects approximately ...

Luke Combs' battle with a form of OCD causes him to have intrusive thoughts throughout "about 95 percent of the day." ...