OCD wants you to feel stuck in your rituals. It shows up when you least want it to, disrupting your activities, intruding on your thoughts, and making you acutely aware of its presence. It can make ...

You may feel trapped in your own mind, exhausted by intrusive thoughts, painful memories, or a sense of never feeling safe. Maybe trauma has left you on edge, or OCD keeps you stuck in endless cycles ...

Have you ever seen someone washing their hands again and again, or obsessively arranging things in a straight line? Do they get uncomfortable if a bedsheet isn’t perfectly tucked or if an object is ...

Trichotillomania is a condition involving frequent urges to pull out one’s hair. Experts now consider it closely related to OCD due to the obsessive-compulsive nature of the disorder. Mental health ...

A first-line therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) reshapes connectivity of the brain, according to a new study in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, published ...

To address the needs of humanity in a world stained by turmoil and anxiety, Dr. Brian E. Arnold authored There is No Tiger: Overcoming Overthinking and Controlling Anxiety—a practical guide to ...

At some point, anxiety and stress affect everyone. They can manifest differently in different people, and the level of anxiety one experiences can vary. Still, there is one thing for sure: there are ...

Recently (as in, since school started in August), I've been having problems controlling stress. It's started to give me stomach pains, make me lose some sleep, etc. I went to the doctor (hopefully to ...

Many couples joke about the same everyday pattern: the woman reorganizes the dishwasher after her partner loads it, notices every misplaced item in the house, or becomes stressed when routines are ...