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Personal Stories

Please find below the latest anonymous stories. If you would like to submit your own story, then please do so using the form below and we will endeavour to publish it on a monthly basis.

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Latest Personal Stories

My Daughter

October 2, 2009

4 Comments

A year ago my daughter was in the throes of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and it nearly brought my family to its knees.

My BDD Friend

October 2, 2009

1 Comment

I am a friend of a very attractive, intelligent young woman who has suffered from BDD for around ten years or more

Mother

September 16, 2009

My OCD started when I was 23, my grandfather had died a month before – I don’t know if this was a trigger or not.

OCD and Me

September 16, 2009

I know how hard it can be to speak out about OCD. For over ten years I kept it to myself. Recently I have started speaking out about it more…

I think it’s probably safe to say that, after many years of personal trauma and much struggle with myself mental-health-wise, I at last feel, aged 45, in May 2004, that I am making quite a few significant inroads regarding my overall sense of ‘well-being’.