Over the weekend of January 26, youth with OCD and their families gathered for the Online OCD Camp, an annual event which brings education and support to this special community…. Read more »
Online OCD Camp: The Volunteer Experience
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2023 IOCDF Research Grant Awards
The IOCDF is proud to announce the seven winners of the 2023 Research Grant Awards, who received almost $1.1 million in funding thanks to the generosity of countless donors. This… Read more »
Breaking Down OCD Myths: Dispelling Misconceptions and Stigma
By Michael Vallejo Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a type of mental health disorder that affects people of all ages and backgrounds. Despite this, many people still have misconceptions about OCD… Read more »
Why I Became An Advocate: Summer Contreras
By Summer Contreras When I was 13 years old and in 8th grade, a friend invited me to church. It was there I experienced my first religious intrusive thoughts, even… Read more »
What causes OCD in children?
By Krista Reed, LSCSW In all the years that I have been treating obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) in children and adolescents, one question comes up with every single case. “What… Read more »
Attentional processes in scrupulous OCD
Scrupulosity is a subtype of OCD that is defined by a prevalence of moral and religious obsessions and compulsions. Scrupulosity affects 1 in 20 of Western OCD sufferers; in some… Read more »
2015 Donor-Awarded Research Grants: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Prediction, understanding, and treatment of perfectionism using acceptance and commitment therapy Used for OCD and other mental health disorders, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is a form of cognitive behavioral… Read more »
What if it’s not God? Finding freedom from scrupulosity
By Aly Prades I can still remember the drop of red food coloring my Sunday school teacher squeezed into a jar of water as an illustration of sin. She lined… Read more »
A Therapist’s OCD Journey: From Paralyzing Fears to Building an OCD Center
By Natalia Aniela PLEASE NOTE: This blog post includes mention of several topic areas that readers might find troubling or distressing, including intrusive thoughts of suicide, intrusive thoughts of harming… Read more »
Are Eating Disorders Obsessive Compulsive Disorder? Let Us Discuss.
By Jonathan Hoffman, PhD, Dee Franklin, PsyD, LMHC, Ciana Mickolus, PsyD, & Myriam Padron, PsyD This article was initially published in the Winter 2022 edition of the OCD Newsletter. Eating… Read more »