Living with OCD often means grappling with unwanted, intrusive thoughts. Instead of trying to suppress them, recognizing these thoughts and managing your response is key to reducing their impact.

For seven years, a woman believed she was a pedophile — until a rare diagnosis explained her intrusive thoughts. Molly Lambert, a 22-year-old from Manchester, England, grew up struggling with anxiety ...

Intrusive thoughts are unwanted and distressing ideas or images that can appear suddenly and feel impossible to control. With obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), intrusive thoughts can become ...

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 ...

The term “intrusive thoughts” has become common parlance from mental health creators on social media such as TikTok, and people have resonated with it. In psychiatry, we don’t usually talk about ...

A young woman has revealed her four-year ordeal of believing she was a pedophile, only to learn she was actually battling a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Molly Lambert, 22, started ...

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 ...

Last week, Grammy-winning singer and songwriter Noah Kahan revealed that in 2025, while on a trip to Joshua Tree, he was ...

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.

If you ask someone to describe obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), most would mention hand-washing, lock-checking, or arranging things perfectly. What rarely comes to mind is the version that exists ...

“For years I avoided talking about it," said Molly Lambert, who was diagnosed with pedophilia-themed obessive-compulsive disorder Vanessa Etienne is a Staff Writer for PEOPLE on the Health team. She ...