Individuals with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, according to the DSM-5, are overly concerned with orderliness, perfectionism, and control, a pattern that begins by early adulthood and ...

Regardless of what causes the disorder, "a combination of several factors (related to OCD) all have to be present together in order to become a clinical mental illness," says Siggie Cohen, PhD, a ...

Glutamatergic medications showed promise in treating obsessive-compulsive and related disorders (OCRDs), especially obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), a systematic review and meta-analysis ...

I have had obsessive-compulsive disorder all my life. Even as a child, my devoted mother, Dorothy Irene Welker, would say to me, “Billy, you dwell on things too much.” I still do, but it wasn’t until ...

You like your kitchen sink to shine, and your stove can never be clean enough. Does that mean you have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)? Answering that question requires a deeper look into what ...

In the DSM-5, experts separated OCD and grouped it with related disorders under a new classification called Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders. The current version (DSM-5-TR) still ...

It’s important to note that this disorder is not a recognized condition in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition, text revision (DSM-5-TR).

There are two parallel classification systems for personality disorders in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). 1 Section II of the DSM-5, which ...