While OCD is an actual mental health condition, the term has been co-opted to describe times when someone has a strong preference for things being a certain way. Here's what OCD means.

It’s one thing to read about the signs, symptoms, and types of OCD, the overlap with other mental disorders, the theoreticals about how obsessions and compulsions can affect your life and career ...

More than half a million Australians suffer with OCD. How does it affect their everyday lives, and what are the treatments?

One writer on why being diagnosed with OCD was the best thing that ever happened to her.

While known causes aren't fully understood, genetics or hereditary factors are often thought to be related to OCD.

The thing is, those with OCD who have intrusive thoughts aren’t actually more likely to commit associated acts or live out the thoughts, say experts familiar with intrusive thoughts related to OCD.

It's an often-debilitating disorder that is widely misunderstood and trivialized. Licensed professional counselor Christine Babinec shard the truth about Obsess ...

While Karen Kleinman reports that over 90 percent of new mothers will have scary, intrusive thoughts about their baby and themselves at some point, this does not mean almost every new mom has P-OCD.

What does OCD mean? OCD is a chronic mental health disorder that causes a person to have uncontrollable, repeated obsessions and/or behaviors known as compulsions, according to the National ...