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

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 ...

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.

Many of us have wild thoughts that pop into our heads out of nowhere. But what if those thoughts were harmful and seemed to want to destroy good things in your life? And what if they happened all of ...

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 ...

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 ...

“People with OCD feel the urge to perform compulsive rituals, mental or physical, in response to these obsessions to alleviate discomfort associated with them, ‘solve’ the obsessions, prevent a ...