By Vinay Krishnan Vinay Krishnan My OCD has always manifested itself through a debilitating fear of harm coming to loved ones and to myself, a subset of OCD called Harm… Read more »
Posts By International OCD Foundation
You Are More Than Your OCD — Living with OCD
By Stuti Pemmaraju Stuti Pemmaraju I cannot pinpoint the exact moment that I first began experiencing symptoms of OCD, but my earliest recollection of a compulsion was during my fifth-grade… Read more »
Confessions of an Eight-Year-Old – Living with OCD
By Julia Hyman Julia Hyman Knots in my youth-sized stomach. My brain pounding and constantly racing. Guilt was consuming my eight-year-old body. Those were my very first signs of OCD…. Read more »
We Can Do Hard Things – A Mother and Son’s OCD Journey
By Kjersti and Jayden Helberg Jayden’s Story Jayden and Kjersti Helberg It has been almost 7 years since I was diagnosed with OCD. When I was 7 years old I… Read more »
Quieting the Chaos — Living with OCD
By Jack Lindley When I was in elementary and middle school, my mind was ravaged by constant OCD intrusive thoughts and obsessions, mainly about harming myself and others and whether… Read more »
Waiting Room – A Sibling’s Story
Austin and his brother By Austin Kang Sometimes I think back to the waiting room. I was 13. My older brother was 17. I remember the sharp smell of lemon… Read more »
Managing School Avoidance in Children With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
– Elizabeth Deckler, MD1,2,3, Stephanie Rohrig, PhD2,3, Anthony Puliafico, PhD1,2– Columbia University Medical Center, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical Center What is School Avoidance? School avoidance refers to a young person… Read more »
Navigating BFRB Recovery: Real Strategies and How to Find Help
– By the BFRB Special Interest Group Check out part 1: More Than a “Bad Habit”: Living With a BFRB Introduction Living with a body-focused repetitive behavior (BFRB) often feels… Read more »
More Than a “Bad Habit”: Living With a BFRB
– By the BFRB Special Interest Group Introduction Body-focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs), including hair pulling (trichotillomania), skin picking (dermatillomania), nail biting, lip/cheek biting, and more, remain among the most misunderstood… Read more »
My Lived Experience with BDD
– by Kellie Smith My journey with Body Dysmorphic Disorder began at sixteen years old, when I developed a debilitating preoccupation that something was wrong with my face. When I… Read more »