Imagine you are standing near the railing of a seventh-floor balcony with your infant in your arms when a sudden thought ...

Intrusive thoughts are sudden, involuntary thoughts, mental images or urges. They often cover difficult themes such as causing or experiencing harm, contamination, making a mistake, or sexual or ...

You’re carrying your baby down the stairs when an image suddenly flashes through your mind: You trip and drop her. Or you’re pushing the stroller across the ...

Have you experienced random, intrusive thoughts that seem to appear out of nowhere? Or thoughts that are in contrast to your personality, maybe a thought about intentionally hurting others, horrific ...

Experts say that after childbirth, intrusive thoughts are common and mostly benign. Lindsay Clancy’s story provides a disturbing exception. Experts say that after childbirth, intrusive thoughts are ...

'Seeing the irrational and weird things OCD makes other people obsess over helps me to separate my condition from reality' ...

Have you ever been startled by a thought that seemed to come out of nowhere? Maybe it was a fearful thought: "What if something terrible happens?" A disturbing thought: "Why would I even think that?" ...