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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 […]
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 […]
OCD started when I was about 11 years old. If I did not do certain things, I believed my mom would die and it was all my fault. Just sitting in a chair didn’t feel right, so I’d do it again until it did. When walking, I had to walk backwards over my steps and […]
I was diagnosed with OCD very casually, as if it was just assumed I had OCD and I already knew about it. So I can’t pinpoint the year. I just remember a psychologist talking about treatments for my OCD when I was about 16. I have the more Compulsive side of OCD – probably due […]
In the end all you will have is yourself; you will be alone. That is to say, the three pounds of meat encased in your skull, the repository of everything that makes you YOU, is all you will have. In a way, isn’t our whole life just a view of the world from inside a […]
I don’t have any recollection of a life free from the grasps of OCD. I was diagnosed when I was 9 years old, just entering the 4th grade. I’ve had several various obsessions and a few compulsions, but the one that started it all and still remains the most constant to this day is obsessing […]
2000 was when I finally found out that it was Puro ‘O’ OCD behind what I was going through, after my aunt did some research on the internet. I guess my family knew there was something going on even if I thought I was hiding it. Buffer
Technically speaking, I’ve never been diagnosed with OCD. Doctors have agreed I have it, but no one sat down with a diagnostic manual and said, “Ah, we see you have OCD.” Nevertheless, those who have listened to me agreed this was the case. I knew it when I read a description of it in a […]
I’m 17 years old, and I was diagnosed with OCD when I was 13, though I can’t remember a time when I didn’t have symptoms. I’ve since been diagnosed with depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenic tendencies resulting from my OCD. My psychiatrist and I don’t consider titles anymore, just symptoms and treatments. The best day […]