Feeling worried, replaying conversations or imagining what could go wrong are familiar experiences. But when distressing thoughts become difficult to dismiss and lead to repetitive behaviors or mental rituals, the underlying issue may be more complex than everyday worry.
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and anxiety conditions can overlap, making it challenging to recognize the difference.…
For many new mothers, the earliest weeks of parenthood bring something no one in the delivery room ever mentions: sudden, disturbing mental images involving their baby being harmed. Sometimes those images involve the mother herself.
The thoughts are so unsettling, so completely at odds with the fierce love a mother feels, that most women carry…

