No single fear defines the condition. There are familiar obsessions like washing your hands or checking the stove. But there’s also hoarding, hypochondria or a terrible fear you’re going to harm ...

OCD is often misunderstood. Here’s what it’s like, from people who live with it. This is what it’s really like to have OCD, according to 4 people living with it What do you think of when you hear the ...

(CNN) — When someone likes things just so or always seems to have their home in perfect condition, others may say “he is so OCD.” But OCD — obsessive-compulsive disorder — isn’t a nifty personality ...

It’s one thing to read about the signs, symptoms, and types of OCD, the overlap with other mental disorders, the theoreticals about how obsessions and compulsions can affect your life and career and ...

Thröstur Björgvinsson, a psychiatrist at the Menninger Clinic, is a board member of the Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation, which is holding its 14th annual conference in The Woodlands this weekend.

In pop culture, people with obsessive-compulsive disorder are often portrayed as meticulous to an extreme degree. They’re highly organized, perfectionistic, or germophobic — like Jack Nicholson’s ...

When someone likes things just so or always seems to have their home in perfect condition, others may say “he is so OCD.” But OCD — obsessive-compulsive disorder — isn’t a nifty personality trait of ...