If you have contamination OCD, you worry about germs everywhere. When my OCD was full-blown, it made me refuse to drink a coffee I’d bought at a Starbucks because one of the baristas touched the lid ...

COVID-19, a new form of coronavirus, is dominating the news. To date, more than 109,000 people have been infected by the respiratory disease, which originated in China, and more than 3,300 people have ...

Contamination OCD is a subtype, or “theme,” of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). It includes persistent fear of contamination and an overwhelming need to clean oneself and objects. OCD involves ...

OCD triggers can cause a flare-up of your symptoms. Yours will be related to both the type of OCD you have along with your past experiences and traumas. Obsessions are the unwanted and intrusive ...

When I was 8 years old, just about all I could think of was how I was going to die that day. No, I didn't grow up in the middle of a war zone, though many others on the other side of the world were ...

Roughly 2-3 million US adults are believed to have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Some forms of OCD have no outward compulsions, making OCD harder to diagnose. A psychologist shared some of the ...