By: Agata Blaszczak Boxe
Published: 02/26/2015 09:54 AM EST on LiveScience
A rare case of “seasonal” obsessive-compulsive disorder in a woman in highlights the complexity of this mental health condition, researchers say. The woman’s OCD symptoms appeared every year when winter began, and then ended as the seasons shifted toward summer.
After living with the condition for a decade, the woman was treated at a clinic and recovered, the case report said.
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The case report was published online Feb. 18 in the Industrial Psychiatry Journal.
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