Category: OCD

Source: Pathdoc/Shutterstock Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is associated with unwanted recurring thoughts or images (obsessions), and repetitive behaviors (compulsions) intended to relieve the obsessive thoughts. OCD has been estimated to affect 0.75% to…

Source: Creative Commons/Shrimp1967 Just as there are only a few safe, efficient passages to Mount Everest, observes OCD specialist Stuart Ralph, only a handful of treatments approaches exist for OCD. Triumphant approaches…

For those who need it, chronic reassurance is never enough to fully soothe. Ultimately, those who require that much control and that much predictability, more than anything, need to start tolerating letting…

Source: Nathan Cowley/Stock Photo “Hug my parents for 11 seconds or else they’ll die, pray to God then kiss your fingers or else you’ll have cancer… I had one time where I…

Tormented by repetitive thoughts, there are few conditions I have seen cause the level of suffering that obsessive-compulsive disorder can. While the media caricature of OCD involves super-organization and overachievement, this is…

When we open and relax into the energy in the breath, when our breathing is coordinated, and the breathing mechanism is strong and flexible, when we add the secret sauce of conscious…

Reference Cards for Asch Experiment Source: Fred the Oyster / Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 At Swarthmore College in 1951, 50 students were placed in a room and charged with…

The term obsessive obsessive-compulsive disorder is not well understood and is sometimes thrown around casually. Someone who likes cleanliness and order may say, “I am so OCD about how I organize my…

A New Theory of OCD

Source: Steve Johnson/Pexels Beth agonized over whether her boyfriend was the right partner. Was he reliable, smart, kind, strong? You name the adjective, and it made it onto her ever-shifting list, boiled…