OCD in the Digital Age: 5 Hidden Traps of Scrolling Last week, a client sat across from me in my Edinburgh office, phone clutched in her hands like a lifeline. "I can't stop checking," she whispered. "Instagram, Facebook, TikTok. I scroll for hours, but it just makes...
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10 Little-Known Types of OCD You May Not Recognise
10 Little-Known Types of OCD You May Not Recognise Last month, I sat across from Sarah (name changed), a brilliant lawyer who'd been seeing therapists for fifteen years. Depression, they said. Anxiety disorder, said another. One even suggested she had borderline...
Living with Somatic OCD: 2 Inspiring Recovery Stories
Living with Somatic OCD: 2 Inspiring Recovery Stories Picture this. A young man sits across from me in my Edinburgh clinic, visibly exhausted. "Federico," he whispers, "I can't stop thinking about my breathing. Every single breath feels like I'm doing it wrong." His...



