It takes an average of 14 to 17 years for people to be diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) after they start experiencing symptoms. One of the reasons so many “suffer in silence” is the ...

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Social anxiety can make any gathering feel daunting. Long before someone steps foot in a crowded party, ...

What is your OCD’s #1 goal for your life? Is it to gain control? Avoid discomfort? Find that ever-elusive certainty about whatever it is it’s worried about? Well, yes, it definitely wants all those ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Brian Coombs, founder of the OCD Foundation of Utah, started his journey with obsessive-compulsive disorder when he was just five years old. “I had the strong urge to run back into ...