Love requires a leap of faith. No one can know with complete certainty that their partner is “the one,” or that their feelings will never change. Yet most people learn to live with that ambiguity.

A single dose of psilocybin – the active ingredient in magic mushrooms – produces rapid reductions in symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), according to the first placebo-controlled trial ...

Everybody has an occasional upsetting or shameful thought. For some people, the thoughts feel uncontrollable. It doesn't take long for someone to worry they're going "crazy" or wonder if they're just ...

Howie Mandel wasn’t diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) until his 40s, but he says the condition profoundly impacted his entire life. “I don’t remember not experiencing OCD,” the ...

The mention of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) often conjures images of scrupulous organization and particularity — a picture of perfectionism. Some might also think of a fear of germs or ...

When I was a teenager, my mind would stick to troubling thoughts like gum. My boyfriend had to call at exactly 7 p.m., and if the phone didn’t ring, he was either dead or furious at me. The lump ...

It takes an average of 14 to 17 years for people to be diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) after they start experiencing symptoms. One of the reasons so many “suffer in silence” is the ...

Mackenzie Reed was 21 years old when obsessive compulsive disorder took over her life near the end of 2019. The registered nurse went from graduating nursing school during the height of the COVID-19 ...

You likely know what OCD stands for, but many people don't know what having obsessive-compulsive disorder actually means. For therapists like Erin Venker, she often feels like OCD is misunderstood.

In the aftermath of the October 7th attacks in Israel, a team of psychologists and psychiatrists noticed an unsettling pattern among survivors: obsessions and compulsions that hadn't been there before ...

It’s easy to unintentionally say something that hurts your loved one with OCD more than it helps, even if you mean well. Here’s how to avoid that. Life with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) can be ...