OCD Awareness Week Publicity on Local Community Radio in Bristol

[Tez]

Hello All 

I was very proud this week to have taken part in several broadcasts on local community access radio services here in Bristol for OCD Awareness Week:  I am told that they went down well and that people learned something about what it is like to live with the condition.  As you might know, I work for a local charity here in Bristol which has been supporting Awareness Week and which facilitated the broadcasts, so here's our press blurb that went out via our website.  

Onward and upward to beat OCD! 

Tez 

 

As well as World Mental Health Day, this week marks OCD Awareness Week.  http://www.ocduk.org/ocd-awareness-week. OCD is a serious psychiatric condition that is estimated to affect 1.2% of the population, making it one of the most common mental health issues that people face.  Once again, our media group has been privileged to bring together Second Step and the country’s leading OCD charity, known as OCD-UK (http://www.ocduk.org/).  Tez has been open about living with OCD and is a firm advocate of treatment and recovery, and this year has appeared with several of our media partners to talk about the issue.  He is on South Bristol’s BASE Radio this weekend in a special edition of the “Second Step Recovery Tunes” show, talking about his life and experiences with Cath and Tim.  He has chosen music from amongst others, Cocteau Twins, Jon and Vangelis, Renaissance and New Riders of the Purple Sage and talks about how things such as Radio Luxembourg and Doctor Who have been sources of inspiration to him.  The show will go out in BASE Radio’s loop several times over the coming month at http://www.baseradiobristol.co.uk/

 

Tez is also guesting on the region’s only regular lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender magazine programme, “ShoutOut” on Thursday 13th October.  In a 10 minute interview, he will be talking about how everyone has a modicum of OCD, and how treatment and medication works.  The programme is networked out on six local radio services, as follows:

 

·         B.C.F.M. (93.2 FM and DAB Radio)  7pm Thursdays repeated at midnight

·         Bradley Stoke Radio (103.4 FM and DAB Radio)  10pm Thursdays

·         BASE Radio South Bristol (online)  9pm Fridays

·         Pirate Nation Radio (online)  7pm Thursdays

·         Glastonbury Community FM (107.1 FM) 9pm Thursdays

·         Frome FM (96.6 FM) 7pm Thursdays

 

Or, you can listen at will from Friday onward at http://shoutoutradio.lgbt/.