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 ...

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.

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 ...