Anxiety itself is not a mental illness. It’s a normal, adaptive emotion that helps us respond to perceived threats. Anxiety is the automatic reaction that makes you jump back when you think you’ve ...

Anxiety is a normal, adaptive emotion, but becomes an anxiety disorder when fears are persistent, intense, and interfere with daily life, affecting about one in three people. Obsessive Compulsive ...

"OCD is weird. I laugh about it now," Camila told Cosmopolitan UK (via Billboard). "Everybody has different ways of handling stress. And, for me, if I get really stressed about something, I'll start ...

Signs of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) in women, plus how they can cope with its intrusive thoughts and obsessive ...

Woman with OCD says she was flooded with 1,000 messages after sharing her experience of intrusive thoughts on TikTok, helping others suffering ...

If you've always been 'the clever one' but never quite fit in, I've got you. Maybe your life seems great, but you feel inadequate, so you prove yourself to not be 'found out'. Overwhelm, anxiety, ...

‘You think you’re a monster, that you don’t deserve to exist.’ These are the words of 22-year-old Molly Lambert whose mental health condition convinced her she was a paedophile. She lives with Pure-O ...

Obsessive compulsive disorder, or OCD, is a misunderstood mental illness despite affecting about one in 50 people – that’s about half a million Australians. Our new research shows how long and fraught ...