by Jennifer | Sep 7, 2026 | Anxiety, mental health, OCD
Anxiety and OCD overlap enough that they are regularly mistaken for one another, including by people who have lived with one of them for years. Both involve worry. Both involve a body that will not settle. Both get worse the harder you try to fight them. The...
by Jennifer | Sep 7, 2026 | mental health, OCD
OCD may be the most misunderstood diagnosis in common use. It has become shorthand for liking things neat, and that misunderstanding does real harm. It leaves people who actually have OCD unable to recognize themselves in the public description, and it is a...
by Jennifer | Aug 7, 2024 | OCD
OCD in adults is far more common, and far more often missed, than most people realise. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is characterised by intrusive, unwanted thoughts — obsessions — and the repetitive behaviours or mental acts performed in response, called compulsions....
by Jennifer | Nov 7, 2023 | OCD
What is OCD? Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is a mental health condition defined by intrusive, unwanted thoughts — obsessions — and the repetitive behaviours or mental acts performed to neutralise them, called compulsions. It affects millions of people, and although it...
