I. OCD, or Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, is a mental health condition that affects millions of people worldwide. It is characterized by intrusive thoughts, urges, or images (obsessions) that cause anxiety, as well as repetitive behaviors or mental acts (compulsions) aimed at reducing that anxie...
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental health condition that affects people in multiple ways. There are several types of OCD that all overlap in symptoms but vary in how each person is affected. There are four main types of OCD commonly seen, but there are more than those on this...
OCD, or obsessive compulsive disorder, is common. It affects over 2% of the population, or more than one in 50 people.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder ( OCD) is a term that's sometimes misused to describe people who like things super-clean or arranged just so. But when you actually have the condition called obsessive-compulsive disorder, it affects your life in a very real way. OCD usually doesn't happen all ...
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)is a mental health condition that affects millions of people around the world, and Perinatal OCD describes a specific manifestation of OCD that is experienced during pregnancy or in the first year after giving birth. ...
Osteochondritis dissecans (OCD) is a problem that affects the knee, mostly at the end of the big bone of the thigh (the femur). A joint surface damaged by OCD doesn’t heal naturally. Even with surgery, OCD usually leads to future joint problems, including osteoarthritis. ...
OCD affects about 1 percent of the U.S. adult population, or more than 2 million people, according to theNational Institute of Mental Health. Sufferers have uncontrollable, intrusive thoughts and engage in behaviors they feel the overwhelming urge to repeat over and over, which can interfere wi...
Because this condition affects so many people and is so widely misunderstood, the International OCD Foundation plans an OCD Awareness Week every second week of October. It aims to promote awareness of the manifestations and behaviors of obsessive-compulsive disorder so that more people who are ...
We discuss an update on Jonny, what is insight in OCD, how it affects OCD, the 4 things Jonny sees in clients with low insight: when mental compulsions go up insight goes down, the intensity of the symptoms, low insight and shame go hand in hand, the beliefs that we carry about thou...
These symptoms may cause the parent to dread spending time with the child, which affects bonding and can wreak havoc on the parent-child relationship. Because violent and sexual obsessions stand in stark contrast to what new parents feel they “should” be feeling, postpartum OCD symptoms often...