If you have ever colour-coded your wardrobe, wiped the kitchen slabs repeatedly just because a speck of dust exists, or straightened a slightly off-centre painting on the wall, someone has probably ...

When compulsions feel protective, OCD treatment gets harder. Here's the neuroscience behind why trauma makes OCD feel so much ...

There may be no torment quite like the sublime looniness that is obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Your hands are clean, the door is locked, you didn’t insult a colleague at work or drive over ...

While obsessive compulsive disorder, or OCD, is an actual mental health condition, the term has been co-opted by the public to describe times when someone is having an anal-retentive moment. But ...

If you have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), you tune into the world at a different frequency. You wonder which doors are clean enough to touch, which thoughts are pure enough to think, when your ...

People often jokingly say they’ve “got a bit of OCD” (obsessive-compulsive disorder) if they are overly organised or tidy. But OCD is actually a severe and disabling disorder characterised by ...

Gaslighting is a psychological manipulation in abusive relationships that often causes victims to question their perception or reality. It's often used to avoid reflecting on their role in disputes, ...