More than one-third of families argue daily about teen screen time. That’s according to Common Sense Media’s recent survey of more than 1,200 U.S. parents and adolescents on technology and family tensions. Like any other addiction, the single-minded attention toward using electronic devices is becoming all-consuming for increasingly more adolescents, affecting mental health development and […]

You know you locked the door before you left. You’re positive. But you check again…and again. Maybe a few more times. Or a dozen. This likely sounds strange to someone who’s never dealt with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), but for patients with the disease, these behaviors – often called “safety behaviors” – act as coping […]