Veale, D., & Roberts, A. (2014). Obsessive-compulsive disorder. Bmj, 348: g2183 doi:10.1136/bmj.g2183

This is a scholarly article published by David Veale in April 2014 and found in the British Medical Journal. This article gives an in-depth overview of OCD – Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. It reviews the causes, symptoms, how it presents itself, who it affects, and how it may be treated. This is important to our project because the disorder that I am tasked with portraying is OCD and this helps set a foundation for our knowledge of OCD.

Hirschtritt ME, Bloch MH, Mathews CA. (2017). Obsessive-compulsive disorder: Advances in diagnosis and treatment. JAMA, 317(13), 1358–1367. doi:10.1001/jama.2017.2200

This is another scholarly article presenting the modern forms of diagnosis and treatment of OCD. It was written by Hirschtritt and published in the JAMA in 2017. This article emphasizes the importance of therapy and behavioral medicine in treating OCD, which is the main focus of our project.

Brody, J.E, (2021, August 17). Living with O.C.D. in a pandemic. The New York Times. pD7. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/16/well/mind/ocd-pandemic.html?smid=url-share

This news page is a popular media source, written by Jane Brody and published by The New York Times in 2021. It gives the perspective of someone suffering with OCD throughout the COVID pandemic. This proposes different stressors that people struggling with OCD may have faced and new ways they may have learned to overcome those struggles, which is helpful in our project about the importance of mental disorders and therapy.

Keeler, J. (2022, October 17). How OCD is portrayed in movies & TV shows – Impulse. Impulse. https://impulsetherapy.com/how-ocd-is-portrayed-in-movies-tv-shows/

This webpage provides a popular media interpretation of how OCD is portrayed in public. Most people learn through their sources of entertainment and the way OCD is portrayed through popular media is highly influential on our understanding of OCD among many other mental disorders. It brings awareness to the false or overexaggerated views of OCD and aims to correct them in hopes of removing the stigma associated with someone diagnosed with OCD.