In fact, those people have some pretty cool personality quirks in common. Some people see a messy, cluttered space, and they ...

Living in a smaller space often triggers the urge to organize everything perfectly. When square footage is limited, we ...

Living and dealing with constant clutter is especially harmful for women, according to therapist Elizabeth Earnshaw, not only because they often bear the burden of "fixing" the mess, but also because ...

Like many people, my garage and closets are littered with the detritus of modern life—from stacks of paperbacks and fancy china to a fussy tea maker, still swaddled in its box. All of it needs to go.

Now is not the time to clean out all of your closets. By Elizabeth Passarella Elizabeth is filling in for Jancee Dunn, who is off this week. This weekend, I am planning a Great Squishmallow Eviction ...

Scrupulosity latches onto the thing we hold most dear—our relationship with God. I didn’t know what scrupulosity was until I was 23 and sitting in a psychiatrist’s office. After months of extended ...

Relationship OCD Symptoms and Obsessions Intrusive thoughts One of the most common ways Relationship OCD can present itself is with intrusive thoughts. “When you have Relationship OCD, you are really ...

Many of us have wild thoughts that pop into our heads out of nowhere. But what if those thoughts were harmful and seemed to want to destroy good things in your life? And what if they happened all of ...

You likely know what OCD stands for, but many people don't know what having obsessive-compulsive disorder actually means. For therapists like Erin Venker, she often feels like OCD is misunderstood.

Treatment-resistant OCD occurs when standard therapies do not provide adequate relief from obsessive-compulsive symptoms. While many people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) improve ...

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- Neighbors say the mounds of clutter outside a Huntington Beach home are so bad, they can't use the sidewalk in front of the house. They say junk, rubble and trees ...

In the aftermath of the October 7th attacks in Israel, a team of psychologists and psychiatrists noticed an unsettling pattern among survivors: obsessions and compulsions that hadn't been there before ...