Beachside Teen Treatment Center

17 Jun

What are OCD symptoms?

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is a mental illness that deals with how the brain functions. Fear, worry and sometimes bad thoughts come into a teen’s brain and simply will not go away. No matter what a teen does to try to push them aside, they linger and fester. These thoughts are obsessions…
13 Apr

OCD: 5 Little-Known Symptoms

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a condition where the person has recurring thoughts, ideas, or sensations and the compulsive desire to repeat actions (often unnecessary) over and over again. Those who suffer from the condition can seem quite strange to others. Some OCD patients have an obsessive need to perform…
13 Apr

OCD & Celebrities

We all have our own idiosyncrasies and eccentricities. But, when does a behavior cross the line from quirky to a mental illness? Most medical professionals would agree that a mental illness will manifest with specific symptoms that affect the patient’s lifestyle over an extended period of time – and they…