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I have been diagnosed with OCD, Depression, BI-Polar Axis 2 and General Anxiety Disorder. I have very similar contamination fears [to Jennifer’s – see Jen Abrams’ testimonial]. I was diagnosed with OCD at age 4 and I am now a 32-year-old woman still suffering with this. I grew up around a mentally ill mother who […]
The launch party for ‘Check Mates: A Collection of Fiction, Poetry and Artwork about Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, by People with OCD’ – available on Amazon today. Also, now in a kindle edition! Part of the proceeds will be donated to OCD charities. At the launch, Vrinda Pendred (Editor & Founder of Conditional Publications), Sharon Meyer (Promotions […]
NOTE: This story contains sexual and violent incidents that some people might find upsetting. But we aim to be honest here, so we have included the story in full. Please only read if you feel comfortable with this sort of material. As a young child (around 4-5 years old), I suffered from my “illness”. I […]
We’re on YouTube! Don’t miss this personal interview on The Creative Penn, all about Conditional Publications, what we stand for, what we’re trying to accomplish, and of course Check Mates: A Collection of Fiction, Poetry and Artwork about Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, by People with OCD. VIDEO: Author, publisher Vrinda Pendred on how writers with OCD, Tourette’s […]
Okay, who watched X-Men 3: The Last Stand and felt like, in many ways, it was the story of their life? Not with me? Let me explain. In a nutshell: the authorities have discovered a new drug to ‘cure’ the mutants of their ‘abnormalities’. Mutants queue up in the thousands to receive this ‘cure’, but […]
Please do check out ‘The Unspoken Truth about OCD’ – an interview conducted by online book promoter and life coach Lynn Serafinn, here as well as ‘OCD – Everyone Relates to It and It Can Be Overcome’, with relationship coach Geoff Laughton, which can be found here – as well as OCD, this interview touches […]
In the Fall 2010 edition of Inside TSA, the quarterly newsletter of the National Tourette Syndrome Association, Inc., you will find a section titled ‘Off the Bookshelf’ featuring a review of none other than Check Mates: A Collection of Fiction, Poetry and Artwork about Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, by People with OCD. Click here to read their […]
A fellow tourettic recently linked me to a video of a man pretending to have Tourette Syndrome, by shouting a bunch of ridiculous obscenities in a bid to be ‘humorous’. Now, there are tons of these cropping up all the time, but someone’s comment on this particular video incensed me; they wrote: ‘LOL tourettes is […]
The latest interview tied to Check Mates: A Collection of Fiction, Poetry and Artwork about Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, by People with OCD, available on Amazon now. Download and listen to the interview here (download time 4 mins on a high-speed connection): The interview was conducted by Marifran Korb, who runs the website Mentally Ill Parents, opening […]
The following is a poem by Diane Cornell, who you may recall was the winner of our competition for an advance copy of Check Mates, the first ever collection of OCD fiction, poetry and artwork by people with OCD. Diane deals with OCD herself, as well as depression, but this particular poem could speak to […]