This week is OCD Week Of Action, when the charity OCD Action fights to raise awareness of the crippling mental illness that is obsessive compulsive disorder.
OCD is a debilitating condition in which a person experiences frequent intrusive and unwelcome thoughts, which are often followed by repetitive compulsions, impulses or urges.
OCD is generally split into four categories: Fear of contamination, checking, hoarding and intrusive thoughts. A person with OCD can suffer with all of these things, or just one. Though it seems intrusive thoughts play a part in all.
For this week’s We Asked Guys article, we decided to speak to men who suffer with OCD to see how it affects their day-to-day lives.
First, I spoke with Peter, 34, who’s had symptoms of OCD since he was a child. It started affecting him at university, and he got a proper diagnosis in his 20s. Peter has experienced various OCD tendencies including the fear of contamination and compulsive checking, though he says his intrusive… Read the full story