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I am a big believer in taking action in the now when it comes to trying to help yourself with your OCD. When I was younger I felt it was much more important to know ‘why I was the way I was’.  I honestly thought that if I could find that information out then then answer to what I did about would come falling into place shortly afterwards I guess. Years of experience and searching for causes has largely put paid to that line of reasoning.     At the end of the day scientists don’t know why some people have OCD and others don’t and the arguments between a genetic cause and psychological protective mechanisms has been one of the most popular polemics.     The idea of knowing though has never fully left me and so I was fascinated when I came across this article on Science Daily from 2020 .( https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200421094257.htm ) about experiments that Queen Mary University of London and the University of Roehampton had been conducting on mi...

I found this diary entry that I had written from about 5 or 6 years ago. It's kind of like a one page emergency go to that I used to read whenever I was feeling quite ill with OCD. I thought it would be interesting to share with you.... It’s OK – you’ve spiked thousands of times and its ALWAYS the same – you spike with whoever you’re with as YOU HAVE ROCD – once the panic / spiking / mis-leading thoughts and weird sensations have gone and they will eventually, you will see it for what it is again – its AN OCD SPIKE – you are safe and whilst they are all really uncomfortable the sensations, they will pass and you will feel good again. You will feel healthy and normal again. This process has been repeating itself for thousands if not hundreds of  thousands of times in your life and will undoubtedly continue to do so for the rest of your life as you have a chronic OCD condition.  Accept it. That’s the first thing ; try really hard to resist taking the thoughts as real – they are...