Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) results in obsession with a thought, action or feeling and the person falls prey to a cycle of compulsive behaviour. Read on to know types of this mental health condition and ways to fight this.

Ahead of World Mental Health Day, we talk about common mental health disorders like depression, schizophrenia and obsessive compulsive disorder and the symptoms that they cause. Read here to know everything about them.

Experts divided the OCS into four categories including bad thoughts, repeating/checking, symmetry, and cleaning/contamination.

According to a new research from Binghamton University, living at higher latitudes, where there is also less sunlight, could result in a higher prevalence rate of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

OCD or obsessive compulsive disorder is a mental disorder where the sufferer has obsessive thoughts and shows repetitive behaviors. Here's everything you need to know about it.

Sara and Amanda Eldritch would take showers that lasted upward of 10 hours. The inseparable twin sisters from Broomfield, Colorado, would go through five bottles of rubbing alcohol every day, disinfecting their skin until it burned. They hardly ever left the house. When they did, they would stop eating and drinking hours in advance to the point of ...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental disorder where people feel the need to check things repeatedly and follow a certain repetitive behaviour. Know all about it here.

A large European study states that kids and adolescents who are diagnosed with OCD are more likely to deal with educational underachievements.

New York: People who go to bed late appear to have less control over their obsessive thoughts, according to results of a small study. “That we find that there are specific negative consequences of sleeping at the wrong times, that’s something to educate the public about,” said Meredith Coles, Professor of Psychology at Binghamton University, ...

People who go to bed late appear to have less control over their obsessive thoughts, according to results of a small study.

A new study has identified a protein which could possibly be linked to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Its absence could lead to the repetitive ritualised behaviour.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder that surfaces during adolescence or early adulthood may actually have origins in the circumstances surrounding pregnancy and infancy, a Swedish study suggests. Smoking during pregnancy, cesarean section delivery, preterm birth, unusually low or high weight at birth and breech presentation at labor were all associated w...

"I had panic attacks, I used to puke every day and very casually too. I didn't have an eating disorder; it wasn't to do with that. I always had a stomach ache. And I was a control freak," said Kristen

Singer Katy Perry has revealed that she suffers from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and it started during her childhood.

Pop star Katy Perry is suffering from from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and often "freaks out" over tiny problems.

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) results in obsession with a thought, action or feeling and the person falls prey to a cycle of compulsive behaviour. Read on to know types of this mental health condition and ways to fight this.

Ahead of World Mental Health Day, we talk about common mental health disorders like depression, schizophrenia and obsessive compulsive disorder and the symptoms that they cause. Read here to know everything about them.

Experts divided the OCS into four categories including bad thoughts, repeating/checking, symmetry, and cleaning/contamination.

According to a new research from Binghamton University, living at higher latitudes, where there is also less sunlight, could result in a higher prevalence rate of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

OCD or obsessive compulsive disorder is a mental disorder where the sufferer has obsessive thoughts and shows repetitive behaviors. Here's everything you need to know about it.

Sara and Amanda Eldritch would take showers that lasted upward of 10 hours. The inseparable twin sisters from Broomfield, Colorado, would go through five bottles of rubbing alcohol every day, disinfecting their skin until it burned. They hardly ever left the house. When they did, they would stop eating and drinking hours in advance to the point of ...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental disorder where people feel the need to check things repeatedly and follow a certain repetitive behaviour. Know all about it here.

A large European study states that kids and adolescents who are diagnosed with OCD are more likely to deal with educational underachievements.

New York: People who go to bed late appear to have less control over their obsessive thoughts, according to results of a small study. “That we find that there are specific negative consequences of sleeping at the wrong times, that’s something to educate the public about,” said Meredith Coles, Professor of Psychology at Binghamton University, ...

People who go to bed late appear to have less control over their obsessive thoughts, according to results of a small study.

A new study has identified a protein which could possibly be linked to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Its absence could lead to the repetitive ritualised behaviour.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder that surfaces during adolescence or early adulthood may actually have origins in the circumstances surrounding pregnancy and infancy, a Swedish study suggests. Smoking during pregnancy, cesarean section delivery, preterm birth, unusually low or high weight at birth and breech presentation at labor were all associated w...

"I had panic attacks, I used to puke every day and very casually too. I didn't have an eating disorder; it wasn't to do with that. I always had a stomach ache. And I was a control freak," said Kristen

Singer Katy Perry has revealed that she suffers from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and it started during her childhood.

Pop star Katy Perry is suffering from from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and often "freaks out" over tiny problems.