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What is Orthorexia?
Our global community has become increasingly health-conscious, often pushing for strict workout regimes and meticulous diets. Celebrities and social media influencers have turned into our…
Mind Your Words: OCD Stigmatization From Normalization
Take one: Sitting at one of the lunch tables, I noticed a group of girls building a house of cards. They’re almost done with it…
OCD: More Than A Hand-Washing Disease
The running water. The soap and the suds. The porcelain sink and the metal faucet. They all greet you, as you wash your hands, whether…
Pushing the Limits of Differentiation: Hypochondria or OCD?
Suzan is sick. She knows she’s sick. When she goes to the doctor searching for answers, however, she is told that she is fine. Suzan…
The Blurred Line Between Impulse Conduct Disorder and Addiction
You’re sitting alone in your room, trying to combat the ennui you feel to be consuming you, and think to yourself, “Jason had texted me…
Effects of OCD on Romantic Relationships
“When you have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, you don’t really get quiet moments.” These were the words spoken by Neil Hilborn, whose poem OCD, went viral.…
Peace in Calamity
You made sure multiple times to unplug your steam iron but now you’re in your Chemistry lab, unable to focus on your lab report for…
Game of Thoughts
We have all heard about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) in one form or another. Even if we don’t know much about the symptoms or the…
When Motherly Love Becomes Too Much: Postpartum OCD
In recent years, concern of and research into mental health of the postpartum period (the time span following the birth of a child) has increased.…