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Meet the Woman Who Eats Couch Cushions

Compulsions drive people to do very strange and unusual things. But eating couch cushions? That may very well be the strangest yet. Adele, a 30-year-old woman from Bradenton, Fla., recently came forward on a TV show about her bizarre taste for foam materials. The woman is featured on the TLC program "My Strange...

Filmmaker Raising Funds to Make Movie About OCD

Donald Trump. Howie Mandel. Howard Stern. What do these famous faces have in common besides celebrity? Believe it or not, they all suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder, a mental ailment affecting millions that hasn't quite made it into the Hollywood spotlight. That's all about to change, however, thanks to...

Obsessive-Compulsive Gene Located in Dogs

(Feb. 3) – If your dog seems to exhibit time-consuming, repetitive behaviors, new research suggests it might actually suffer from a mental illness. A study published in the January issue of Molecular Psychiatry reports that scientists have located a gene for obsessive-compulsive disorder among certain canine...

New Research May Help Those Afraid of Own Looks

(Feb. 1) – When Christian Jahn, a 37-year-old graduate student, was 13, he wouldn't leave the house without wearing a heavy Arctic jacket. In Southern California, that was enough to set him apart. But Christian was obsessed with what he deemed an even more troubling physical anomaly: He was terrified of his own...

Background on obsessive compulsive disorder

Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder characterized by intrusive thoughts that produce uneasiness, apprehension, fear, or worry, by repetitive behaviors aimed at reducing the associated anxiety, or by a combination of such obsessions and compulsions.

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