When I first heard the title The Upside of OCD: Flip the Script to Reclaim Your Life, my eyebrows rose. I have witnessed OCD unleash storms of mental suffering, from ...

The author of The Upside of OCD encourages people living with OCD to embrace who they are, rather than trying to erase ...

Child psychiatrist who brought obsessive-compulsive disorder to public awareness and focused on the brain’s biology and its role in mental illness ...

As a child growing up with obsessive-compulsive disorder, Jessica Whipple didn’t see many children’s books about mental health and neurodivergence that weren’t manuals or work books. As an adult, she ...

Jessica Whipple's new children's book "I Think I Think a Lot" is inspired by the author's own experience with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Sometimes our worries can be overwhelming, even ...

While working at the NIH, she wrote “The Boy Who Couldn’t Stop Washing,” a groundbreaking study of OCD. She also researched childhood schizophrenia and ADHD.

In 2013, I started a list of over 500 books that I wanted to read. Before long, I only let myself read books from the list and felt trapped by it. Accidentally losing the reading list freed me to ...

JANESVILLE — James “Jimmy” Hodge, a senior at Janesville Parker High School, was between eighth-grade and his freshman year of high school when he was introduced to a new and challenging creature: his ...

Cognitive behavioural therapy may help her to cope with her anxiety and learn that she doesn’t need to respond to intrusive thoughts ...