Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

'Khloe & Lamar': Rob Admits He Has OCD

Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: TV Canada, Video, Reality TV, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Ocd, The Kardashians, Tv Replay, Rob Kardashian, Khloe Kardashian, TV News

In the penultimate episode of "Khloe & Lamar" (Sun., 10 p.m. EST on E!) for the foreseeable future, Rob Kardashian finally accepted and admitted that ...

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'My Mom Is Obsessed' With Going To The Gym

Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: TV Canada, Discovery Fit & Health, Video, Reality TV, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Ocd, My Mom Is Obsessed, Tv Replay, Going to the Gym, TV News

It creates an interesting new angle on OCD and obsessive behaviors when filtered through the eyes of the children they impact. On the latest "My Mom I...

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'My Mom Is Obsessed' With Her And My Weight

Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: TV Canada, Discovery Fit and Health, Video, Reality TV, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Ocd, My Mom Is Obsessed, Tv Replay, Bathroom Scale, Weight, TV News

Tamara's obsession with her own weight spilled into how she was raising her daughter Alizabeth on "My Mom Is Obsessed" (Thu., 10 p.m. ET on Discovery ...

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Parents, Kids and OCD

Maggie Lamond Simone | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Glee, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Ocd, Parenting, Anxiety, Anxiety Disorder, Teenagers, Maggie Lamond Simone, Howie Mandel, Leonardo Dicaprio, David Beckham, Parents News
Maggie Lamond Simone

"You'd think they would know it's not a disease," my daughter said as we watched Emma's parents on Glee discuss her OCD. "Jeesh. I'm a kid and I know that."

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How OCD Helps Me Understand Certain Kinds Of Religious Experience

Matt Bieber | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Mental Illness, Matt Bieber, William James, Ocd, Religion and Science, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Religion News
Matt Bieber

My experiences with OCD -- shot through with magical thinking as they may be -- are in some sense exactly parallel to certain kinds of religious experience. You can't talk me out of them.

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Why Everyone Is A Bit OCD

Fletcher Wortmann | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Obsession, Obsessive, Triggered, Obsessive Compulsive, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Ocd, Books News
Fletcher Wortmann

I have Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). But I want you to consider your own obsessions before we talk about my clinical ones, because the line between the two is not as clean and distinct as you might think.

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The Politics, Stigma and Experience of Brain Disorders: A Blog Series

S.Z. Berg | Posted 02.22.2012

Read More: Mental Illness, Depression, Mental Health, Brain Disorder, Ocd, Schizophrenia, Panic, Bipolar, Anxiety, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Healthy Living News
S.Z. Berg

The holiday season is a good time to talk about brain disorders. The kind I'm talking about are more commonly referred to as mental illness, but I think that term detracts from the fact that depression, anxiety disorders and other such conditions arise in the brain.

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Jessica Pearce Rotondi

The Case For An Imperfect Holiday

HuffingtonPost.com | Jessica Pearce Rotondi | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Alice D. Domar, Holidays, Hanukkah, Dr. Jeff Szymanski, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Perfectionism, Holiday 2011, Christmas Stress, Stress Tips, Ocd, Christmas, Perfectionist, Holiday Stress, Holiday Stress Tips, Women News

You know who you are. You ordered personalized gifts for your coworkers -- you may even have made them by hand. You relieved everyone else in the fami...

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A Conversation With Jersey Shore Patch Editor Tom Davis About Overcoming 'A Legacy of Madness'

Christine A. Scheller | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Mental Illness, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Tom Davis, Bulimia, Ocd, A Legacy of Madness, Mental Health, Memoir, Healthy Living News
Christine A. Scheller

I sat down with Davis, author of mental health memoir "A Legacy of Madness" for a forthright conversation about what it was like to grow up with his mother's undiagnosed mental illness, and what he did to change the course of history in his family.

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Coming Home After 9/11

Tom Davis | Posted 11.11.2011

Read More: Mental Illness, September 11, Decade After 9/11 - Lives Affected, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, September 11 Anniversary, Psychiatric Hospitals, Parents, New York News
Tom Davis

While so many others were mired in chaos, my mother found stability.

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How Do I Talk To Someone With OCD?

Posted 10.10.2011

Read More: Healthy Living, Friend Ocd, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, How to Talk to Someone With Ocd, Ocd, Friend Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Video, Healthy Living News

Have a loved one diagnosed with depression? Cancer? The thought of talking to that person can be scary and awkward. What do you say? What is polite, a...

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Is It ADHD, OCD Or Both?

Stephanie Sarkis, Ph.D. | Posted 08.31.2011

Read More: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Adhd Ocd, Ocd, Adhd Ocd Difference, Attention Deficit Disorder, Mental Health, Adhd, Ocd Adhd Difference, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Healthy Living News
Stephanie Sarkis, Ph.D.

Sometimes people with ADHD tend to have what look like compulsive tendencies. This is because we've learned to overcompensate for difficulties that we've experienced with distraction, disorganization and inattention.

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David Moye

Brazilian Woman Legally Entitled To Masturbate At Work

HuffingtonPost.com | David Moye | Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Video, Weird Brazil, Workplace Masturbation, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Workplace Law, Ana Catarian Bezerra, Etiquette, Weird Sex, Brazilian Woman Mastubates at Work, Hypersexuality, Weird News News

In a decision that can only be described as touchy, a Brazilian judge has reportedly ruled that a 36-year-old female accountant can legally masturbate...

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Procrastinating Is Great -- When Speaking of Death

Todd Greene | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Fear of Death, Fear, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Last Will and Testament, Healthy Living News
Todd Greene

Lately I've found I'm preoccupied by death. Not in it coming suddenly, but in the more somber realization that eventually it will all end. I guess I've been thinking it could be sooner more than later.

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What Do You Wish Someone Had Told You?

Maggie Lamond Simone | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Mental Health, Living News, Mentoring, Teen Girls, Tweens, Self-Esteem, Women and Body Image, Girls, Girls Self-Esteem, Body Image, The Body Positive, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Teen Self-Esteem, Eating Disorders, Self-Esteem Teen, Body Image Teen, Teen Mentor, Girl Self-Esteem, Teen Girl Mentor, Teen Body Image, Tween Mentor, Teen Mentoring, Teenage Body Image, Girl Body Image, Self-Esteem Girl, Body Image Girl, Tween Mentoring, Teenage Girl Mentor, Healthy Living News
Maggie Lamond Simone

We need to encourage our older teenage girls to see our younger girls for what they themselves once were -- on the precipice between self-acceptance and self-loathing, needing the encouragement of the older girls they so admire and respect.

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Mia St. John Knocks Out Stigma in Mental-Health Ring

Robert David Jaffee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Christy Martin, Mia St. John, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Boxing, Schizophrenia, Nami, Sports News
Robert David Jaffee

Mental illness disrupted Jimmy Piersall's baseball career. For Mia St. John, it has propelled her to three boxing championship belts.

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Logic, Guns and Mental Illness

Gloria Duffy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Major Depression, Mental Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Public-Policy, Public Discourse, Anxiety Disorders, Suicide, Bi-Polar Disorder, National Institute of Mental Health, Columbine Killings, Personality Disorders, Guns, Mental Illness, Tucson Shooting, Schizophrenia, Commonwealth Club, Virginia Tech Massacre, Jared Loughner, Anti-Social Disorders, Gun Control, Automatic Weapons, Second Amendment, Politics News
Gloria Duffy

The logic is absolutely clear -- the more guns in private hands, the more people will be shot and killed each year in the US. The more guns in private hands, the greater the number will be of mentally unstable individuals with guns.

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Tales of Pan Am: "The Pool"

Helen Davey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Airlines, Pan Am, Flight Attendants, Air Travel, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Ocd, Airplanes, Vietnam, Travel Stories, Travel News
Helen Davey

Often in my twenty-year career as a flight attendant for Pan Am, especially in the 1960's and first half of the 1970's, I had a feeling of awe and wonder at the experiences that were mine for the asking.

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The Art of Obsessing Compulsively

Eric Maisel, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Creativity, Obsession, Anxiety, Motivation, Therapists, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Problem Solving, Healthy Living News
Eric Maisel, Ph.D.

By focusing all of its attention on illness and on what's not working, psychology has missed the fact that the brain's ability to obsess can also amount to a real treasure.

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Fun with Sam and Ella

Tom Davis | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Mash, Salmonella Tomatoes, Eating Disorders, Living, Rutgers University, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Healthy Living News
Tom Davis

I was convinced I had Salmonella, of course, because that's what I always do -- make a leap to the worst case scenario.

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Normal Anxiety, a Disorder, or Both?

Dr. Harold Koplewicz | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Psychiatry, Mental Health, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Dsm-Iv, Anorexia, Parenting, Anxiety, Bulimia, Child Mental Health, Health, Healthy Living News
Dr. Harold Koplewicz

While some anxiety is a normal reaction to stress, the anxiety that interferes with one's ability to function, to handle everyday situations, is a debilitating disorder.

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Cleanliness Is Next to Godliness, My Apartment Is a Temple, and Other Stories of OCD

Todd Greene | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Cleanliness, Seattle, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Neatness, Ocd, Dating, Healthy Living News
Todd Greene

Everyone in my family has traits associated with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. So my family is a bit neat. I've never met, or dated, a woman who was as neat as me.

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Big Island: On Why Opposites Attract

Tom Matlack | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Marriage, Relationships, The Good Men Project, As Good as It Gets, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Childhood Memories, Family, Australia, Healthy Living News
Tom Matlack

Dad is perhaps the smartest man I have ever known, having graduated from Princeton, Oxford, and Yale. But he has to arrange the chairs in a certain way at family gatherings.

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The Link Between Obsessive Compulsive Disorder And Addiction (VIDEO)

EmpowHER | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Addiction, 5min, Addiction & Recovery, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Dr. Helen Blair Simpson, Ocd, Healthy Living News

Dr. Helen Blair Simpson explains the relationship between addiction and obsessive compulsive disorder/OCD. WATCH: ...

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"Deal Or No Deal" Host Opens Up About OCD (VIDEO)

abcnews.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Don't Touch Me, Authors, Howie Mandel, New Books, Author Interviews, Deal or No Deal, Books, Here's the Deal Don't Touch Me, Howie Mandel OCD, Books News

Howie Mandel, comedian and host of "Deal or No Deal" has a new book out called "Here's the Deal: Don't Touch Me" which describes his struggles with OC...

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