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 ...

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. It takes an average of 14 to 17 years for people to be diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) ...

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) uses magnetic fields to stimulate specific areas of the brain. It’s shown promise in treating obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), including cases that may not ...

I have seen other people with OCD make full recoveries. I believe in recovery in the same way that I believe in aviation: because I have seen it happen so I know it is real. Meeting other people who ...

The gold standard therapy for OCD is exposure and response prevention (ERP) – a treatment designed to reduce avoidance and rituals as a means of coping with distressing triggers. This involves going ...

I was diagnosed with OCD three years before reading "Turtles All the Way Down," the 2017 novel by John Green, which was just adapted into a movie. I had recently entered my second major mental health ...

During the holidays, kids often spend more time on screens, leaving parents to wonder: Is it causing harm? Possibly. For preteens, the odds of developing OCD over a two-year period increased by 15% ...

Screen time among teens doubled during the pandemic and was associated with poorer mental health and greater stress. Screen time has also been associated with binge eating and disruptive behavior ...