I think I didn't give myself enough credit for the guts it took to make myself say those things,” Rhiannon tells PEOPLE ...

I've been counting since I can remember. Balancing, blinking, scanning for cracks to step on with my right foot whenever my left foot accidentally landed on one. The feeling of something, anything, ...

After years of spiraling thoughts and second-guessing myself, I learned how to open up without letting fear take over.

My driver at Geneva airport opens the car door for me—a routine gesture, but one that saves me having to face one of my biggest ongoing struggles: communal door handles. Filthy, and potentially evil.

Despite what's shown on TV and in movies, OCD is rarely about hand sanitizer or tidy kitchen pantries. Instead, OCD often ...

Despite being diagnosed with OCD at age 9, I didn’t know there was a form of the disorder called relationship OCD until I met my now husband. When I met my now husband, Marc, I didn’t believe in love ...

I hate getting my period. I hate it for all the obvious reasons — it's painful, inconvenient, uncomfortable, expensive and not really something that any of us look forward to. But a much less obvious ...

A teen tells her own story about living with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Aug. 4, 2009— -- Thirteen-year-old Michelle LeClair has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and is one of three children ...

I am a psychologist specialized in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) approaches, helping individuals manage OCD, anxiety, and mood disorders. I also work with parents and young children facing ...

Individuals with checking OCD experience overwhelming urges to repeatedly check things, such as locked doors, appliances being turned off, or tasks being completed correctly. Obsessive-compulsive ...

A month after my wife and I returned from Peru, in my parent’s bathroom in Minnesota, I’ve torn up a cardboard toilet paper roll and am poking through my shit in the toilet bowl, looking for blood. In ...

While NFL players were in the trenches of a grueling season, Braden Smith was fighting a different battle: the one going on inside his own mind. In the middle of what was meant to be a ...