Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder that affects not only adults but even kids and teens, disrupting their daily activities. People with OCD usually have uncontrollable, ...

Their children suddenly developed obsessive compulsive disorder and extreme food aversions. Parents are asking state ...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is associated with unwanted recurring thoughts or images (obsessions), and repetitive behaviors (compulsions) intended to relieve the obsessive thoughts. OCD has ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A family-based cognitive behavioral therapy markedly improves symptoms in children as young as five years old with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), according to a new ...

Rohan’s nighttime fears of being robbed and abducted began at five years old. At nine, Rohan was still sleeping in his mother’s room plagued by nighttime obsessions. “I feel like we’re going to get ...

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is often thought of as a disorder that affects adults. But a new study by Brown researchers shows that it can actually develop in children as young as four years old. The ...

Karli Bossman's behavior changed instantly from happy to afraid of socks. Oct. 5, 2011— -- Karli Bossman was a happy 5-year-old from Clayton, N.C., who loved going to kindergarten -- until one ...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) doesn't just affect adults; in fact, between 0.25% and 4% of children develop OCD. The average age of onset of childhood OCD is approximately 10 years old, although ...

EAST PROVIDENCE — Manny Padilla was about 8 years old when he began to experience symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder. “I started having so much anxiety and I would just be like throwing up, ...

In 1994, I was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder, more commonly called OCD. I was 11 years old, and at that point, my parents had known for several years that something was not right with ...