“I think I didn't give myself enough credit for the guts it took to make myself say those things,” Rhiannon tells PEOPLE Tereza Shkurtaj is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working for PEOPLE ...

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 ...

In terms of anxiety, the first DSM got it right—formulations since then have moved in the wrong direction, in my view, toward static reification. This is always a bad step since feelings are 1) ...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) features uncontrollable thoughts, urges, and ritualistic behaviors that create a chain reaction known as the cycle of OCD. Intrusive thoughts make up “obsessions” ...

“I think I didn't give myself enough credit for the guts it took to make myself say those things,” Rhiannon tells PEOPLE In 2022, Rhiannon was officially diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder ...

In 2022, Rhiannon was officially diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder Over the course of two decades, the 29-year-old from Chattanooga, Tenn., has compiled a running list of words she cannot ...

At just 8 years old, one woman knew something wasn’t right when she realized she couldn’t say certain words out loud. Terms labeled “inappropriate” for children – especially those related to the body ...