Today we’re excited to share this story by Patrick McGrath, PhD, about his journey to becoming an OCD expert. Dr. McGrath is Executive Director of the Foglia Family Foundation Residential Treatment Center. If you want to stop a party dead in its tracks, tell a room full of people that you run an OCD treatment center. Everyone will turn to you and say they either “have a little OCD” or know... Source ..read more

Like many of you out there, a few members of the NOCD team have tried a whole bunch of things for obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD. Many people struggle with obsessions and compulsions for years, and it is by no means abnormal to have searched far and wide for something that actually works. All of us landed, eventually, in evidence-based treatment with an OCD-trained therapist. Source ..read more

In the midst of March Madness, it’s easy to forget that a vast majority of student-athletes aren’t in the spotlight. There are 460,000 of them in the NCAA across 24 sports, balancing practices, games, and meets with all the other things a college student deals with – studying, friends, life back home, and often jobs. Big tournaments and national championship games highlight the central role... Source ..read more