OCD Awareness Week: 9-15th October 2016

[Ashley]

For OCD Awareness Week 2016 we are working to reach out and raise awareness of what Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is really like. OCD – The real story, what it’s like to live with OCD.  

In order to make this work and raise awareness we are looking for help.  If you're willing to share your OCD story (either via our website or ideally with the media (usually local newspaper or radio, but also national if we can get opportunity) then please get in touch with me.

If you're not UK based then you can still get involved, we can pass your details on to one of the global partners for OCD Awareness Week.

[grams88]

Hi Ashley

I like the whole idea of sharing our story. One I would like to go for if possible is sharing my story in a newspaper. (I'm a harm ocd sufferer)

 

[Ashley]

Fab, shoot me an email with your details Grams and we can go from there.

[Ashley]

I have spoken to grams, and I am still keen to get different experiences of OCD to share, it can be anonymous just for our site if preferred.

[kaheath80]

Nearly finished mine, what's the deadline?

[Ashley]

End of next week at the latest. GIves me to review, prepare for website

[kaheath80]

Perfect thanks!

[Cub]

I wrote a poem about the OCD Cycle earlier this year. Thinking of sharing it on social media; maybe recording it and putting it online?

[Ashley]

Please do Cub

Let's support the @IOCDF Thunderclap to try and get OCD trending for positive awareness by 12:00pm EDT (5pm) Monday. Just follow the link, and click your support.

https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/47880-ocd-awareness-week-2016

[grams88]

Thanks Ashley for getting the right contacts for the ocd story.
 

Quote

 

This was something I posted on a furom back in October 9th

Hope you are doing alright, ocd can be a right pain.

I might be featured in a newspaper which I think might be the the Sunday post. A few weeks ago I got some photos taken also had a chat on the phone with one of the editors who might be writing the story up about ocd.  I talked on the phone about how the condition affects my everyday life, I tried to think of some of the harm thoughts I usually get and mentioned a few on the phone. I mentioned about getting some CBT and how CBT can help you. He seemed a nice man on the phone and was very understanding. So we got a few photos taken and I remember one being with my dog cassie. See what happens from there I suppose.

Another couple of things I've managed to do is to tell more people about the ocd and a lot of people at the volunteering seemed very understanding. In a way I enjoyed talking about the condition, it gets rid of that stigma in a way.

I've not really told many family members such as uncles or aunties, I might maybe think about it for the future.

 

That's my story in the newspaper (The sunday post)

Hoping the link works okay

[Ashley]

Thanks for sharing Grams, that is incredibly brave of you to open up that way, well done on the article