Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) doesn't just affect adults; in fact, between 0.25% and 4% of children develop OCD. The average age of onset of childhood OCD is approximately 10 years old ...

Researchers at Yale University have made a significant discovery that could help explain why some children develop ...

From a Freudian perspective, avoidability is a crucial factor in differentiating phobias from OCD. In phobia, the distressing ...

MAY IS MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS MONTH AND WE’RE TAKING A CLOSER LOOK AT OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER, WHICH IS OFTEN MISUNDERSTOOD AND MISREPRESENTED. HEALTH EXPERTS SAY THAT ONE OF THE MOST ...

An estimate of 1 in 40 adults and 1 in 100 children in the United States has OCD. Having some levels of anxiety is normal, and even healthy for a person to have. But when extreme fear or worry is ...

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PANDAS may occur when a child suddenly and dramatically has OCD or tic-related symptoms following a strep infection. The symptoms appear to happen extremely sudden and may cause the child to become ...

Dickens had a habit of rearranging furniture whenever he stayed in a hotel room and inspecting his children's bedrooms ... Slater said there were also signs of OCD in the semi-autobiographical ...