Psychologist hopes the pandemic can help reduce the stigma against OCD

Many people have experienced anxiety and excessive cleaning during the pandemic, but for individuals who struggle with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), this isn’t anything new. Many individuals who struggle with this anxiety disorder often have rituals or specific ways of completing a task, usually involving an excessive amount of cleanliness.  The pandemic has heightened these concerns to the extreme, Karen Rowa, a psychologist and associate professor at McMaster University, told