Our Media services

As the UK’s largest and most comprehensive OCD charity, OCD Action is the media’s first stop for:

• Accurate and up-to-date information on OCD and related conditions
• Expert comment from leading professionals
• Case study individuals willing to share their personal stories
• Details of our ground-breaking events & campaigns

We are constantly working with all types of media to constructively increase awareness and true understanding of OCD and related disorders.

Case Studies and features

OCD Action has an ever-growing database of individuals ready to share their compelling stories. This means that in most cases, we are able to find the right person for a specicific story.

Some Recent examples

• BBC Radio Manchester
• ITV Granada – Evening News
• ITV This Morning
• New magazine
• Financial Times – Weekend Magazine
• Daily Mail – Femail
• House of Obsessive Compulsives (Channel 4)

Contact info

For all media enquires, please contact OCD Action’s media team:

Communications Team
media@ocdaction.org.uk
Tel. 020 7253 5272

Out of hours media contact:

Joel Rose, OCD Action Director
joel@ocdaction.org.uk
Tel. 07787 542758

Click on the links below to access papers regarding OCD and related disorders.

• Memantine as an Augmenting Agent for Severe Pediatric OCD
  ajp.psychiatryonline.org

• Grey matter abnormalities in trichotillomania: morphometric magnetic resonance imaging study
  bjp.rcpsych.org

• Prevalence of obsessive-compulsive disorder in the British nationwide survey of child mental health
  bjp.rcpsych.org

• Children with obsessive compulsive disorder should have access to specific psychopharmacological and behavioural treatments
  bmj.bmjjournals.com

• The preliminary development of a new self-report measure for OCD in young people
  www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

• Service innovations – a group for children and adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder
  pb.rcpsych.org

• Evidence-based pharmacology of obsessive-compulsive disorder
  journals.cambridge.org

• Incidence of anti-brain antibodies in children with obsessive-compulsive disorder
  bjp.rcpsych.org

• Brain 5-HT function in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Prolactin responses to d-fenfluramine
  bjp.rcpsych.org

• Neuroendocrine responses to intravenous L-tryptophan in obsessive compulsive disorder
  www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

• Motor Inhibition and Cognitive Flexibility in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Trichotillomania
  ajp.psychiatryonline.org