You’ve probably seen it before: the TV character dramatically washing their hands or painstakingly straightening every object on their desk. You’ve probably heard people on social media saying, “I’m ...

Luke Combs is lifting the veil on his lifelong battle with a “particularly wicked” form of obsessive-compulsive disorder. The country music star recently opened up about his battle with Pure ...

As I mentioned in a previous post, there are common therapist mistakes in exposure and response prevention (ERP), the best psychotherapy for OCD. One of these mistakes is not knowing how to help ...

My therapy style pulls from a variety of treatment modalities, as I have extensive training in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Exposure and Response ...

Trauma exposure was associated with greater OCD severity and comorbidity in 9 of 10 studies. Traumatic life events predicted higher Y-BOCS scores, obsessions, and compulsions (β=0.19, 0.17, and 0.27, ...