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1.2: The percentage of the U.S. population with an actual diagnosis of obsessive compulsive disorder, but 31% in our survey of 23,000 some adults say they have it and many of them equate it with anxiety. Something’s off? Actually, there are levels of OCD and of course the clinical criteria for a diagnosis is different than our own assessment, even if we are the owners of our own thoughts and actions. OCD is often confused with anxiety and also interchangeable with terms like “Type A,” but the formal diagnosis comes with some perks you may not have known. Federal mental health parity laws require insurers to cover certain therapy for OCD, like exposure and response prevention therapy, outpatient counseling, even residential care. Interestingly, when describing their OCD to us, more than a third of the 31% used the word “anxious,” 1 in 5 say they have panic attacks and others say they just worry about things more than they should.

Science: Why artificial intel missed the diagnosis for these behavioral conditions, but caught these. Details.

Sport: A school counselor up in Maine has turned old-school detentions into a hike around the trail. A Q&A with hike’s founder.

Policy: There’s a huge gap in access to mental health and substance use treatment in Tennessee where we learned the portion of commercially insured and Medicaid beneficiaries who did and did not access services after diagnosis or hospitalization. Check out the stats.

Perspective: The one about my menopause relapse.

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