“If it’s necessary, do it. It becomes compulsive when you wash your hands excessively, even when it’s not needed.” Lastly, ...

Excessive Washing Regular hand-washing is a great habit for maintaining cleanliness, but overdoing it can lead to the skin on ...

Pop culture often portrays OCD as excessive hand-washing, but contamination fears are only one form of the disorder. Some people experience fears of harming loved ones, intrusive religious ...

While OCD compulsions—such as excessive hand-washing—are generally recognized as unfounded, behaviors like calorie counting, restriction of food groups, and exercise routines are often praised ...

Compulsions can be physical (like excessive hand-washing or checking locks) or entirely internal (such as mentally replaying conversations for fear of having said something ‘wrong’). Despite its ...

The itchy, scaly rash was probably caused by excessive hand-washing and inadequate moisturizing afterward—I’m a parent to a toddler, which means constant diaper-changing and germ-dodging.