Program has OCD sufferers kick tires, jump in Dumpsters, touch toilet seats. Feb. 15, 2010 — -- Away from home for a conference, Faye Lange takes a minute before heading out for what she calls ...

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a mental health disorder, "where a person gets caught in a vicious cycle of obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors," explains Guerra. The thoughts and fears such ...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) causes people to have recurrent unwanted or unreasonable thoughts or sensations (obsessions) or make them feel driven to do something repeatedly (compulsions).

“Pure O” is not a formal mental health diagnosis. It refers to a form of OCD in which people may have compulsions that involve mental rituals more so than specific actions. Although pure obsessional ...

Our thoughts are often mysterious to us. You probably don't know why you suddenly think about a Komodo dragon while sitting in traffic or Citizen Kane while shopping for groceries. Such moments remind ...

(WJAR) — Obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD, affects anywhere between 1% and 3% of people in the U.S. OCD is where unwanted thoughts get stuck in your head making it hard to concentrate, sleep or ...

Mixed reality exposure and response prevention (MERP) therapy showed no significant advantage over self-guided exposure and response prevention (SERP) therapy among individuals with ...

People with sexual OCD may experience distressing or disturbing intrusive sexual thoughts that cause stress in day-to-day life. Therapy and other treatments can help manage symptoms. When someone has ...

Howie Mandel believes that, like physical fitness, mental health is a continuous "work in progress." Mandel calls OCD "debilitating." "What it is is these obtrusive thoughts ... you get so obsessed ...