"Exposure Therapy/Exposure and Response Prevention." Anyone who does any reading about OCD comes across these terms all the time. Most people (including professionals) THINK that they know what ERP is ...

PROVIDENCE -- Researchers in Providence are trying to better understand obsessive compulsive disorder, a debilitating mental illness. OCD is more common that you might think. The National Institute of ...

With OCD, control is a defensive attempt to manage internal anxiety. It usually doesn’t involve intentional efforts to control other people. OCPD, on the other hand, can involve controlling behaviors.

Although some people with OCD notice that their symptoms improve with age, others may find that older age brings a new set of triggers that can challenge OCD symptoms. Obsessive-compulsive disorder ...