OCD Action

Tess
Member

My copy of 'Action' came yesterday and I have read it from cover to cover and just wanted to say thank you to the OCD Action team for such an excellent publication. I scanned it eagerly to see if any of the pictures of our OCD Awareness event had been included and was disappointed not to find any but then when I read the two advocacy articles I thought that was a far better way of using the space - real help and advice for people rather than pictures of something that has been and gone. The article on housing is so reassuring, after 40 years of suffering contamination OCD someone has finally accepted and put into print the terrible anxiety of having peole coming into your home and of work not being done to standards of perfection. It is bad enough to have to cope with these problems with family but when professionals do not understand and walk all over your OCD it is just too much. So thank you Jude, I have often worried about what might happen if I become old, alone and needing help, especially now the policy is to care for people in their own homes, how would I cope with people coming into my home to perhaps care for me, bringing in "contamination" and doing things to their standards, not my OCD ones. Now I know I have rights for my OCD to be considered and discussed and the possible future scenario does not seem quite so frightening.

Mon Aug 16 2010 10:11:37 #
Advocate 1
Moderator

Thanks for this post Tess, it is good to know that the information on Housing was so helpful to you. Please get in touch if you ever need the Advocacy Service.
Kind regards
Jude

Thu Aug 26 2010 12:43:07 #
Unregistered

Now we're all happy, let us join hands and sing a merry song!!

Sorry peeps, couldn't resist.

Thu Aug 26 2010 22:56:09 #
Unregistered

Hi Tess

I so agree with what you have put.

It is a worry when you have OCD and are in your 60s and time passes so fast. I know I could never cope with a nursing home after visiting mum in hers. I could also not cope with only one bath a week with my contamination OCD. Yet, this seems to have been a local policy with regard to nursing homes and home visits when mum was alive.

At the same time, although I do not have problems with people coming to my home, they would have to take into consideration some of my obsessions so as not to make my OCD flare up.

It is vitally important that our needs are taken seriously as we get older and more vulnerable.

Anne

Fri Aug 27 2010 16:20:45 #