From a young age, one woman has feared certain words that trigger intense physical reactions whenever she writes, reads, ...

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. It takes an average of 14 to 17 years for people to be diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) ...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) features uncontrollable thoughts, urges, and ritualistic behaviors that create a chain reaction known as the cycle of OCD. Intrusive thoughts make up “obsessions” ...

In terms of anxiety, the first DSM got it right—formulations since then have moved in the wrong direction, in my view, toward static reification. This is always a bad step since feelings are 1) ...