Jul. 12—Today's article is about a new generation of treatments for a disorder called OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). Before learning about OCD treatments, let's briefly discuss basic facts about ...

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The gold standard therapy for OCD is exposure and response prevention (ERP) – a treatment designed to reduce avoidance and rituals as a means of coping with distressing triggers. This involves going ...

Imagine being late to all your appointments because getting out of your house entails so many time-consuming rituals that you’re spending an hour repeatedly going back to your house to make sure the ...

A recent narrative review explores a novel therapeutic bridge between post-traumatic stress disorder and obsessive-compulsive ...

Seven years ago, she shared her story with us. Now, she has a new treatment program to help others. Liz McIngvale used to wash her hands seven times. She'd turn off the faucet or turn on a light with ...

For me, the physicality of making something in the kitchen allows me to step outside of my head, out of cycles of self-critical or repetitive thoughts. (Rolling pasta works best.) It is soothing. When ...

Noah Kahan is opening up about how receiving an obsessive-compulsive disorder diagnosis helped him better understand ...

Without proper identification and effective treatment, obsessive compulsive disorder can be deadly.