01 Alice has dealt with multiple subtypes of OCD throughout her life, including intrusive thoughts about health, religion and more. 02 Meta OCD has been particularly challenging, making her question ...

01 When Whitney began having suicidal intrusive thoughts, she was confused as to what they meant. 02 Previously, she had been diagnosed with postpartum anxiety and depression, but the intrusive ...

Intrusive thoughts are a symptom of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), a mental health condition in which a person experiences involuntary obsessions and compulsions that may cause distress.

When I was eight, I began a secret, solemn, nighttime ritual of checking beneath my bed. Checking for what? I don’t even remember. Intruders. Regular ol’ boogie men. Ghosts. It wasn’t specific, but ...

It was the 1980s. Washington D.C. was being called the “murder capital” of America, and the nightly news in Northern Virginia where I grew up showed an onslaught of politics, gangs, drugs, and guns.

It’s difficult to know how to start talking about obsessive-compulsive disorder, the debilitating anxiety condition that has made persistent laps around my life for 14 years, like a flickering koi ...

Author’s note: This article discusses my own personal experiences with obsessive-compulsive disorder. It is in no way authoritative to anyone’s experience but my own. Every person’s experience with ...

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 ...

A loving relationship can be an oasis in uncertain times, but nurturing it requires attention, honesty, openness, vulnerability, and gratitude. Source: RODNAE Productions/Pexels Try telling someone ...