For OCD Awareness Week – 12 October to 19 October – Lucy Donoughue writes about what it’s really like to live with compulsive checking and intrusive thoughts, and how she eventually sought ...
OCD has two central components. Obsessions are recurrent, intrusive thoughts, urges, or images that lead to distress and anxiety. Compulsions—repetitive behaviors or mental acts performed in ...
Clinical psychologist Dr. Gazal Jones defines OCD as “intrusive thoughts, images, impulses or doubt that cause an incredible amount of distress,” for example “giving someone a fatal illness ...