At first, Laura Hughes put her 13-year-old son Billy's increasingly reclusive behaviour down to the onset of adolescence. He started to cancel outings with friends and refused to go to his beloved ...

MY daughter has extreme obsessive compulsive disorder – OCD. She is 21 and has been like this for ten years now. It’s so distressing to see how this illness is spoiling her life – and our family’s.

OCD is a powerful and often debilitating condition, but it is rooted in the mind's fundamental desire to protect the ...

Long seen as a purely psychological problem, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is now understood to have a clearer biological basis. Scientists have identified genes that may directly cause the ...

“Pure O” is not a formal mental health diagnosis. It refers to a form of OCD in which people may have compulsions that involve mental rituals more so than specific actions. Although pure obsessional ...

For almost a decade, cleaning rituals ruled Kathrine’s life. The middle-aged resident of Bergen, a coastal town in the southern tip of Norway, was consumed by a fear of germs and contamination that ...

MY daughter has extreme obsessive compulsive disorder – OCD. She is 21 and has been like this for ten years now. It’s hard to be understanding about our daughter’s OCD It’s so distressing to see how ...