Nigel

Thanks for the info northpaul. Thanks for the feedback Bucksocd.

Thanks northpaul appreciate the feedback. If you don't mind me asking how much was the CBT.

Thank you for the replies I appreciate them. Have already learned more about this condition I have lived with for so long in the last few hours then I have learned previously. That's down to me though being so insular about it. Reading the comments about it being stress related I find it is a vicious circle with me, my OCD stresses me out but that then triggers my OCD habits even more. Anyone agree?

Thank you Cam81.

Thank you northpaul. I have thought many times about speaking to someone over the years but never done it. Only just got round to speaking to the Gp about my grief issues. I will give it some serious thought,

Hi, I am approaching my 65th birthday this weekend. I started with OCD when I was 11 after my parents moved and I started a new secondary school amongst strangers. For many years I thought I was weird. Not until Charles walker MP stood up in the House of commons some 20 years ago and stated OCD is a mental illness did I realise I had a mental issue,[not the only one] I have never sought any help in all these years, didn't even tell my wife until we had been married some 20 years. Sadly she passed away 17months ago, and now my issues which I had more or less managed are now spiralling. Now I have decided to reach out