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General OCD
- Mar 07, 2010 - Orthorexia: When Healthy Eating Goes Bad
- Mar 01, 2010 - Sex addiction divides mental health experts
- Feb 27, 2010 - Mental disorder manual invites show of hands
- Feb 27, 2010 - In the doghouse
- Feb 13, 2010 - Howie Mandel Promotes Mental Health Awareness
- Feb 06, 2010 - Pssst…OCD is NOT an Adjective
- Jan 15, 2010 - Free Theater Performance in Chicago
- Jan 02, 2010 - OCD & Anxiety: The Year 2009 in Review
- Dec 18, 2009 - Compulsive shopping is a real problem
- Dec 03, 2009 - A&E’s"Obsessed” is casting for patients with OCD/Anxiety
- Nov 22, 2009 - The real deal with Howie Mandel
- Nov 22, 2009 - Phys Ed: Why Exercise Makes You Less Anxious
- Nov 09, 2009 - National Stress Øut Week Highlights Benefits of Mind-Body Practices
- Nov 09, 2009 - Author Abby Sher Talks Prayer, Yoga, & OCD
- Nov 02, 2009 - How can I help my child with OCD make decisions?
- Oct 23, 2009 - Hiding your mental illness only increases the stigma
- Oct 23, 2009 - Final Season Monk Obsessions with Tony Shalhoub
- Oct 19, 2009 - Learn How to Get SSI for Anxiety Disorders
- Oct 15, 2009 - Karen Meyer of ABC7 Chicago will air a segment on OCD on ABC’s Sunday Morning News on October 18 between 8 and 8:30 AM.
- Oct 01, 2009 - National Trichotillomania Awareness Week Oct. 1-7
- Sep 24, 2009 - Patient Voices: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Sep 22, 2009 - First “OCD Awareness Week” Scheduled
- Aug 25, 2009 - Best Practices for Treating Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in Primary Care Setting
- Aug 05, 2009 - OBSESSED Season 2 is Casting in the Chicagoland Area
- Aug 03, 2009 - Obsessive compulsive disorder: Nearly a lifetime without treatment
- Jul 31, 2009 - Tell Your Story on a Documentary Special
- Jul 31, 2009 - Conference hopes to help those coping with OCD
- Jul 16, 2009 - Freida Pinto: I have OCD
- Jun 09, 2009 - OCD at-risk groups need more help
- Jun 02, 2009 - Top Medical and Research Experts at Obsessive Compulsive Foundation’s Annual Conference
- May 18, 2009 - A&E Premieres New Original Nonfiction Series “Obsessed”
- Apr 13, 2009 - My Wife Has OCD: One Couple’s Journey With Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Apr 06, 2009 - Is there a bit of OCD in us all?
- Mar 04, 2009 - When perfectionism becomes a problem
- Feb 04, 2009 - Resilience in the Recession
- Jan 23, 2009 - Relationship of Eating Disorders to OCD
- Oct 14, 2008 - Perfectionism and OCD
- Aug 11, 2008 - Living with OCD
- Aug 10, 2008 - Free OCD Guide for College Students
- Aug 06, 2008 - Archived Teleconference: Reducing Stigma and Discrimination among People who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT)
- May 21, 2008 - Oprah Featured OCD Camp on Wednesday, May 21
Cognitive Behavior Therapy
- Feb 24, 2010 - Latisse and Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)
- Nov 15, 2009 - Is your therapist a little behind the times?
- May 18, 2009 - The man who walked backward & the doctor who turned him around
- Nov 23, 2008 - College Student Confronts her OCD
- Apr 27, 2008 - A Closer Look at Cognitive Behavior Therapy
- Mar 09, 2008 - Hijacked By Worry, Helped By Therapy
Medication News
- Feb 24, 2010 - Doing an About-Face on ‘Overmedicated’ Children
- Aug 12, 2009 - Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Could Soon Have Its Own Disease Classification, and Trials of a Drug/Psychotherapy Combination Treatment are Ongoing
- Jul 17, 2008 - Medication May Aid Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety
Children and Teens with OCD
- Jan 30, 2010 - PANDAS Foundation Launches “Got Strep?” Campaign
- Nov 14, 2009 - Peace Of Mind: Groups Sprouting Up To Spread Awareness Of Mental Illness
- Oct 19, 2009 - OCD and Your Teenager
- Oct 01, 2009 - Wayne gets $2.7M for obsessive compulsive study
- Aug 28, 2009 - New Teen OCD Guide
- Jul 07, 2009 - ABC Primetime Special Aug. 4: Living with OCD
- Mar 13, 2009 - Charles Fox Discusses Special Education Law
- Feb 09, 2009 - Summer Camps for Kids
- Nov 15, 2008 - Participants Sought for Study of OCD in Children and Adolescents
- Oct 25, 2008 - Sibshops and Sibling Teen Dinner Club
- Oct 04, 2008 - Study finds young children can develop full-blown OCD
- Oct 02, 2008 - OCD Action calls for British universities to support students with OCD
- Aug 29, 2008 - Behavioral Therapy Can Treat Childhood OCD
- May 16, 2008 - Cognitive Behavior Therapy Reduces OCD Symptoms In Young Children, Helps Some Achieve Clinical Remission
Research Findings
- Feb 04, 2010 - Body dysmorphic disorder patients see details, not whole face
- Jan 13, 2010 - Compulsive behavior gene discovered in dogs
- Jan 07, 2010 - Is your child currently diagnosed with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) or display symptoms of OCD?
- Nov 30, 2009 - Surgery for disorders promising but risky
- Oct 19, 2009 - Scientists Study a New Option for OCD
- Oct 08, 2009 - $10.5 Million in Funding Creates Center to Study OCD
- Oct 01, 2009 - Strep Throat Does Not Appear To Cause OCD, Tourette Syndrome
- Sep 22, 2009 - Tourette Syndrome Genetic Study at Johns Hopkins
- Aug 12, 2009 - Obsessive compulsive disorder “could be caught”
- Jul 23, 2009 - Researchers Find More Objective Way to Diagnose Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Jul 07, 2009 - Compulsive hair-pulling appears treatable
- Jul 02, 2009 - The Genetics of Mental Illness: Point/Counterpoint
- Jun 18, 2009 - Wrong type of help from parents could worsen child’s OCD
- Jun 09, 2009 - OCD, Anxiety Linked to Risk of Eating Disorders
- Jun 09, 2009 - How pregnancy can trigger obsessive compulsive disorder in new mothers
- Jun 02, 2009 - Eating disorders partially due to genetics
- Jun 02, 2009 - Deep brain stimulation: Expanding its reach to new patients
- May 28, 2009 - Study identifies OCD risk factor
- May 13, 2009 - Researcher Finds Connection Between Glutamate and OCD
- Apr 06, 2009 - New Drug Testing for Children with OCD
- Mar 22, 2009 - Obsessive symptoms in childhood can multiply the probabilites of an obsessive compulsive disorder
- Mar 17, 2009 - Treatment Gains are Maintained After Discharge from Intensive Residential Treatment for OCD
- Feb 27, 2009 - Brain Device OK’d for OCD Treatment
- Feb 18, 2009 - OCD Insights From An Unlikely Model
- Nov 15, 2008 - Deep Brain Stimulation for OCD: Helpful but Risky
- Oct 01, 2008 - A Developmental and Evolutionary Perspective on Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Whence and Whither Compulsive Hoarding?
- Jul 18, 2008 - Scientists Use fMRI Scans to Study Brain Activity in Patients with OCD
- Jul 10, 2008 - Study Endorses Five SSRIs for OCD
- May 16, 2008 - Distinct Treatment Needed: Tourette’s And Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
- Mar 13, 2008 - New Research Study: Treating OCD Patients and Their Partners
- Mar 13, 2008 - Untreated OCD Has a Negative Impact on Relationships
- Mar 01, 2008 - D-Cycloserine May Boost Behavior Therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
- Feb 26, 2008 - Study Endorses Five SSRIs for OCD
- Feb 19, 2008 - White Matter Abnormalities in OCD Correlate with Symptom Severity
Hoarding
- Jan 30, 2010 - ‘Those were my babies’ — animal hoarding is a complex psychological problem
- Jan 24, 2010 - Homer and Langley by EL Doctorow
- Nov 14, 2009 - When Hoarders Make Life Miserable for Others
- Nov 02, 2009 - Cluttered home? Blame your genes
- Sep 25, 2009 - Why People Hoard Stuff
- Sep 15, 2009 - New Research Study on Compulsive Hoarding
- Sep 11, 2009 - Geralin Thomas talks about Hoarders on A&E
- Nov 30, 2008 - Cambridge, Massachusetts reaches out to those who can’t stop hoarding
- Apr 08, 2008 - Messiness Can Be Harmless, but Hoarding Can Be a Sign of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Mar 29, 2008 - When Collecting Becomes Hoarding
- Mar 08, 2008 - When Hoarding Becomes a Safety Issue
Scrupulosity
- Dec 18, 2009 - Neurosis Is Not Being Religious
- Feb 22, 2008 - Dartmouth Students Share Mental Illness Struggles
Gestational and Postpartum OCD
- Feb 18, 2008 - Beyond the Baby Blues: A Spectrum of Postdelivery Conditions, Including Postpartum OCD
Health Insurance
- Feb 13, 2010 - Fighting Denied Claims Requires Perseverance
- Oct 04, 2008 - Congress Passes Mental Health Parity Legislation