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People with Tourette syndrome often describe a rising, uncomfortable sensation just before a tic fires, a feeling they cannot ...

“For years I avoided talking about it," said Molly Lambert, who was diagnosed with pedophilia-themed obessive-compulsive disorder Vanessa Etienne is a Staff Writer for PEOPLE on the Health team. She ...

For seven years, a woman believed she was a pedophile — until a rare diagnosis explained her intrusive thoughts. Molly Lambert, a 22-year-old from Manchester, England, grew up struggling with anxiety ...

Exposure response prevention may help her to cope with her anxiety and learn that she doesn’t need to respond to intrusive thoughts My daughter is 15 and has lived with obsessive compulsive disorder ...

Love requires a leap of faith. No one can know with complete certainty that their partner is “the one,” or that their feelings will never change. Yet most people learn to live with that ambiguity.

Valentine’s Day is supposed to be a celebration of love and romance, but if you have romance-related OCD, also known as ROCD, then the recent celebration of love may have instead been a trigger for ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Aggressive obsessions are common among patients with OCD and are often their most distressing symptoms.

Everybody has an occasional upsetting or shameful thought. For some people, the thoughts feel uncontrollable. It doesn't take long for someone to worry they're going "crazy" or wonder if they're just ...

Howie Mandel wasn’t diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) until his 40s, but he says the condition profoundly impacted his entire life. “I don’t remember not experiencing OCD,” the ...

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