Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Duration: 03:00 minutes
- No Subtitles
- Published: 30 10 2008
- Licence information for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Part of the series Troubled Minds
Summary
Troubled Minds is a series of short animations narrated by young people who have suffered from a range of psychological illnesses and syndromes.
This episode focusses on the frustrations and challenges of having an obsessive compulsive disorder.
Danny, who has had obsessive compulsive disorder since his early teens, describes how behaviours such as constant checking and repeated counting have taken him on an emotional rollercoaster.
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Comments (6)
I have OCD myself and found this video to be absolutely compelling.
NB for more information and support for OCD, go to OCD Action's website. They are the UK's national OCD charity and they also have a helpline.
www.ocdaction.org.uk
I found this by accident as the mum of an OCD child. He has grudgingly watched it and then sighed a hugh sigh of relief. Beautifully expressed.
Thank you
It is hectic when any one of us experience obsessive compulsive disorder, i think it needs to be analyzed carefully all the things and plan our selves to not to be hang in this kind of experience.
http://www.troubledteensguide.com/
Hi it's Danny Tomkins here, thanks for the comment "Patroclus76"
as for "rajkumar" You are incorrect with some of your info. I agree with most of what you have said although I believe that OCD has nothing to do with being a perfectionist; you are right however about the anxiety and worry that one feels before carrying out a "ritual".
OCD is a tough thing to control, if you don't control it, it controls you which is one of the easiest things to let happen. Everybody has traits of OCD as it is only natural to check the door a couple of times, or make sure that the tap is definately off. Although it is those of us who let it eat away at us constantly until we are finally satisfied that there is no hazard to us or anybody else. It is hard to believe but there are many, many people out there who are there to help individuals with OCD. I have finally gained control of my OCD with the help of the Maudsley Hospital in Camberwell, South London. It has been long and difficult but I have succeeded and although it will never just GO AWAY, it is much easier to get on with Day to Day tasks. I finally feel... Normal.
OCD is not a laughing matter and I urge anybody with it or if you know anybody with it to try and get some help. CBT is a very popular way of targetting it (hey it helped me) but there are many other ways in which it can be controlled. There is also a wide range of drugs that can help calm the OCD down although I personally wouldn't recommend them as it basically makes you feel like a zombie.
Thanks
Danny Tomkins - Troubled Minds - OCD
I watched this on cable on Sunday November 16th. i thought it was extremely well done, imaginatively and sensitively executed with a particularly intimate link between the animation and the particular condition being described. (I saw all of them). I wanted to post here and just congratulate the people behind the project. It was a very effective peice of TV.
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OCD is an thought processing disorder where brain always look for a perfectionist in its thought processing. brain gets locked in the perfection builinding process where it always take care of the things to be worked in a logical pattern . problem arised in ocd is the scare or worry factor which always creeps in perfection locked about whether the work done is complete or in complete which reccure to cause a complex emotion setback about the task done .