The term “intrusive thoughts” has become common parlance from mental health creators on social media such as TikTok, and people have resonated with it. In psychiatry, we don’t usually talk about ...

A woman from the UK has said she spent years thinking she was a paedophile, only to discover she was suffering from a type of ...

MAKING her way through the airport, Molly Lambert stopped dead in her tracks as a little girl in a crop top and shorts ...

You’ve had a date night worthy of a (non-cringy) Bachelor episode. The romance? Off the charts. The mood? Lit. And then it happens. OCD-related intrusive thoughts burst into the bedroom. Indeed, ...

Molly Lambert, 22, revealed how obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) made her believe she was a paedophile after developing ...

Molly Lambert claimed to have developed intrusive sexual and violent thoughts as a teenager that had her convinced she was a ...

Beyond simple quirks and preferences, OCD creates a debilitating cycle of unwanted thoughts and ritualistic behaviors that can hijack everyday life. This mental health condition affects approximately ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

Many of us have wild thoughts that pop into our heads out of nowhere. But what if those thoughts were harmful and seemed to want to destroy good things in your life? And what if they happened all of ...