Will I know for sure when I recover?
OCD sufferers are filled with doubt. A woman washes her hands for the thirtieth time today because she doubts her hands are uncontaminated. A man checks the stove is off…
Can people ‘overcome’ OCD?
I've been working on a book about my experience over 40 years with the beast that is OCD. I'm getting quite close to finishing the book but a problem has…
The OCD ‘Cure’
I spend a lot of time on an online OCD forum, talking to OCD sufferers and doling out advice. From time to time people ask if there is a cure…
Agreeing with intrusive thoughts
As OCD sufferers, we are subjected to intense, disturbing thoughts that can cause us a huge amount of grief. For sufferers of harm, sex, pedophile and other obsessional themes, the…