Here, Stylist’s digital writer Lauren Geall – who lives with OCD – talks us through three common misconceptions about the condition. We may have gone some way as a society towards ...
OCD has two central components. Obsessions are recurrent, intrusive thoughts, urges, or images that lead to distress and anxiety.Compulsions—repetitive behaviors or mental acts performed in ...
While anxieties relating to contamination are common, OCD also takes many other forms that have no relation to cleaning. Intrusive thoughts typically latch onto your worst possible fears ...