The journey of recovery from mental ill health can be tough to navigate. It isn’t as straightforward as a broken arm or a chest infection, where diagnosis and treatment plan is clear. It’s not linear and everyone is unique. Medication is still a treatment which has stigma attached to it. A ground-breaking study published earlier …
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Anyone can suffer from OCD, this includes young people and children. In fact, a lot of adults with OCD find their first symptoms started at a young age. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder can have a profound effect on a child’s ability to access education (many young people feel that they can’t cope with the pressures of school …
OCD is not simply washing hands or checking. OCD is far more than that. It can be crippling and stop people from living the lives that they deserve. Attending work, having meaningful relationships (especially romantic relationships), even just having friends or pets, OCD can take over people’s lives. Children and young people can drop out …
A lot of the time No Panic and OCD-UK find people talking about ROCD (relationship OCD) or POCD (paedophile OCD) as if they were different to other types of OCD. The list in fact is endless – COCD (contamination or checking), SOCD (symmetry OCD)… the acronyms quickly become meaningless and divide the community. The fact …
The first step is generally visiting your GP. We know how terrifying that is, how finally admitting to the daily torture is difficult – otherwise, OCD wouldn’t be known as the secret! Aware that a lot of people who are drawn in by OCD Awareness Week are those who believe that they have OCD but …
Ah, this is the one that really gets us. You hear it all the time – people claiming that they are a bit OCD about their clothes or because they always arrange their crisp packets according to colour. There’s one thing they’re forgetting about though… the D in OCD. Disorder. In order to get a …
This is a big topic, isn’t it! So, how to tackle it? I suppose there are as many ways into this area as there are people as well as specialists in mental health. Although I’ve had plenty of issues with both anxiety and self-esteem, I am by no means an expert or mental health professional. …
As a coach, I have spoken to a lot of people over the last 18 months who have been struggling with anxiety. Whether that is something an individual was dealing with before the Covid-19 pandemic, something that has crept in over time through the ongoing lockdowns, changes in restrictions and constantly having to navigate another …
Very often with the territory of bipolar comes anxiety. This can be distressing, but the good news is that with time, effort and knowledge it can be managed well. I’ve written a new book called ‘Bipolar Feelings’ which discusses this aspect of anxiety in bipolar. Overall, I aimed to make it an uplifting and …
Whatever our age, not getting on well with family (relatives) can be a great source of pain. For some of us, it may even be a source of shame or a sense of failure. Even if we understand the dynamics and why we prefer to have/keep the distance, it is stressful and makes us unhappy. …
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