Cameron Mofid, 25, recently traveled to North Korea — making him one of few that have traveled to all 195 countries. Mofid ...

"I was 11 years old, and at that point, my parents had known for several years that something was not right with me." ...

On social media, people describe many types of obsessions and compulsions: “relationship OCD”, “sexual orientation OCD” or “emotional contamination OCD”. These aren’t separate diagnoses but different ...

Disclosures BMC Psychiatry. 2015;15 (121) Abstract Background Research is scarce with regard to the role of psychotic and schizotypal symptoms in treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

Gut microbes are involved in brain health via the gut-brain axis. New research shows they are also involved in ...

The symptoms of PANDAS are similar to OCD. OCD is a disruptive and often debilitating mental health disorder, marked by repeated cycles of obsessive and ritualistic tics, behaviors, actions and ...

Anxiety can be thought of as the psychological equivalent of pain. Although only a subset of mental health conditions contain ...

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Depending on the follow-up time, depression/dysthymia may be predicted by different factors, including nationality and any past anxiety disorder.