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Living with OCD

We're creating resources to help people learn about OCD in the many ways it impacts their own lives—not just what it looks like on paper. You can search our resources to determine when your intrusive thoughts may be related to OCD.

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12 of the Best Mental Health Apps in 2024

The smartphones, smartwatches, and tablets we spend significant time on are powerful tools that can give us deeper insights into our mental health and

By Taneia Surles, MPH

Reviewed by April Kilduff, MA, LCPC

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How To Start Journaling for Mental Health

Journaling, or writing down your thoughts and feelings, has been recognized as a way to minimize stress and reduce depression and anxiety. Also, if you

By Olivia Rockeman

Reviewed by April Kilduff, MA, LCPC

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How To Gain Self-Confidence When You Have OCD

Self-confidence is key to having the resilience, motivation, and positive attitude necessary to face life’s challenges. However, mental health conditions

By Taneia Surles, MPH

Reviewed by April Kilduff, MA, LCPC

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It Ends With Us Controversy: Are Trigger Warnings Necessary?

If Blake Lively, the lead actress of one of the biggest movies this year, It Ends With Us, is all smiles, telling people “grab your friends, wear your

By Yusra Shah

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How Social Media Can Impact Your Mental Health

Social media plays a huge role in our everyday lives, helping us connect with friends and family, learn new things, and stay up-to-date with the latest

By Yusra Shah

Reviewed by April Kilduff, MA, LCPC

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Can Diet Affect Your OCD Symptoms?

When you have OCD, managing everyday can be overwhelming. You might be feeling drained by symptoms like cleaning rituals or seeking reassurance, or

By Olivia Rockeman

Reviewed by April Kilduff, MA, LCPC

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Can OCD Make You Seek Validation?

Everyone wants to feel heard and understood. It’s just human nature. It's also the reason why we often turn to the people in our lives for validation,

By Stacy Quick, LPC

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What Does My Child With OCD Need From Me?

Finding out your child has a mental health condition like obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) can weigh heavily on the heart of any parent or caregiver.

By Stacy Quick, LPC

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Disorganized Attachment Style and How it Affects Relationships

Disorganized attachment—which is sometimes called fearful-avoidant attachment style—is characterized by inconsistent behavior in relationships. If you

By Olivia Rockeman

Reviewed by April Kilduff, MA, LCPC

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Can OCD Cause Mood Swings?

A mood swing, also known as a sudden or intense change in your emotional state, can happen for lots of reasons—but if you have obsessive compulsive

By Olivia Rockeman

Reviewed by April Kilduff, MA, LCPC

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Selective mutism: What’s behind the inability to speak?

Do you speak freely with some people in your life, but find it impossible to utter a word around others? Selective mutism (also called situational mutism)

By Olivia Rockeman

Reviewed by April Kilduff, MA, LCPC

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12 celebrities with OCD – plus recovery strategies you can use in your own life

If you struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), it’s easy to feel alone. You might even think that OCD is a curse—something that will inevitably

By Olivia Rockeman

Reviewed by April Kilduff, MA, LCPC

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How OCD affects relationships: overcoming challenges

Relationships are complex, period. Throw obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) into the mix, and you’ve got even more to navigate. As one NOCD community

By Elle Warren

Reviewed by Patrick McGrath, PhD

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Beating OCD taught comedian Kristy Quinn to be herself

Just two years into her comedy career, Kristy Quinn has already shared the stage with some of the biggest names in comedy: Tiffany Haddish, Bobby Lee,

By Peter Davis

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How to Support Your Child With OCD This Summer

Summer’s arrival is often eagerly anticipated by kids. As the school year comes to a close, many children count down the days until they’ll have more free

By Stacy Quick, LPC

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Self-care for OCD: 8 strategies to try today

In theory, we know we should take care of ourselves. But in real life, stressors come fast, from all directions: work, life at home, bad news online,

By David Berreby

Reviewed by April Kilduff, MA, LCPC

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61 powerful mental health quotes (+ free digital wallpapers)

You deserve a life filled with an abundance of health and happiness. Mental health and self-care play a key role in making that a reality.  Yet, 55%

By Patrick McGrath, PhD

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How to stop overthinking—and calm your mind

You leave a dinner party and can’t stop mentally replaying that one interaction you had—did you offend this person? You finally get into bed to relax and

By Rebecca Strong

Reviewed by April Kilduff, MA, LCPC

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Living with someone with OCD: How to help and support them

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) can be debilitating—for the person who has it, of course, but even for others who are close to them. You might be at a

By Elle Warren

Reviewed by Patrick McGrath, PhD

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Filmmaker Dillon Tucker talks Pure O—a film about the truth of OCD

If you have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), Dillon Tucker’s struggle will be a familiar one: He went to talk therapy when he started experiencing

By Elle Warren

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