What is Cheating OCD?
Cheating OCD is an Obsessive Compulsive Disorder theme where the sufferer experiences intrusive thoughts that they have cheated on a partner. It is a type of False Memory OCD, where…
When you get OCD about OCD
It sounds strange, doesn't it? Getting OCD about OCD? Weird. Yet it happens to many sufferers of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. They instinctively know they have OCD, they've formed their own…
Video: Having OCD and being a neat freak are different
There is a misconception prevalent on the Internet that OCD is about being neat and clean. It's not true.
Having OCD and being a neat freak are not synonymous
Take a look at the picture to the right. I got that picture off Twitter. Someone posted it, commenting that it looked like his desk at work. And then he…
Put your OCD in the pot of ‘who cares’
I spend some time every day hanging out at an OCD forum () I was talking back and forth with a woman from the UK who, among others, suffers from…
On keeping OCD a secret
My OCD began shortly after my dad died in a car accident on a frozen road in Northern Alberta. Soon after, when I was riding in a car with my…
Take it easy this holiday season
Christmas is supposed to be a merry time of year but for many people the holiday season brings with it increased stress, which directly affects OCD. Talk to an OCD…
The bully that is OCD
One way to think of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is to compare it to a childhood bully. A bully might call you names. A bully might take your lunch money. A…
I’m so OCD
Members of the OCD Action Youth Panel discuss the term, "I'm so OCD," in this video.
I have OCD. You don’t.
I write this post to all those people who flippantly use the term OCD to describe some facet of their lives that has nothing to do with the debilitating disorder…