'Khloe & Lamar': Rob Admits He Has OCD
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 ...
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 ...
Posted 04.13.2012
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...
Posted 04.06.2012
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 ...
Maggie Lamond Simone | Posted 04.04.2012
"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."
Matt Bieber | Posted 04.02.2012
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.
Fletcher Wortmann | Posted 04.11.2012
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.
S.Z. Berg | Posted 02.22.2012
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jessica Pearce Rotondi | Posted 12.14.2011
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...
Christine A. Scheller | Posted 02.01.2012
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.
Tom Davis | Posted 11.11.2011
While so many others were mired in chaos, my mother found stability.
Posted 10.10.2011
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...
Stephanie Sarkis, Ph.D. | Posted 08.31.2011
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | David Moye | Posted 11.16.2011
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...
Todd Greene | Posted 11.17.2011
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.
Maggie Lamond Simone | Posted 11.17.2011
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.
Robert David Jaffee | Posted 05.25.2011
Mental illness disrupted Jimmy Piersall's baseball career. For Mia St. John, it has propelled her to three boxing championship belts.
Gloria Duffy | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Helen Davey | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Eric Maisel, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011
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.
Tom Davis | Posted 11.17.2011
I was convinced I had Salmonella, of course, because that's what I always do -- make a leap to the worst case scenario.
Dr. Harold Koplewicz | Posted 11.17.2011
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.
Todd Greene | Posted 11.17.2011
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.
Tom Matlack | Posted 11.17.2011
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.
EmpowHER | Posted 11.17.2011
Dr. Helen Blair Simpson explains the relationship between addiction and obsessive compulsive disorder/OCD. WATCH: ...
abcnews.com | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
Posted 05.07.2012