Mindwise Oasis

One of the many hard things about having OCD is that a lot of people just don’t get it! Over the years I have learnt to accept this as trying to get others to understand just made everything so much worse. “Don’t be ridiculous” they say, “that’s not logical” or “come on you are being irrational” And with that my friends I give you OCD! It may well seem ridiculous to others as their brain just doesn’t work the same way as someone with OCD. It is illogical to those people that

We all know someone that describes themselves as "a little OCD", they are meaning that they might like things to be neat, tidy and organised in a specific way. That is not OCD, thats just liking things to be a certain way. The anxiety and sheer fear that I would get from my OCD was debilitating! this was not "a little OCD". OCD which I like to refer to as the "Monster" can be life limiting causing anxiety, depression, self harm and in some cases suicide. The Monster does not