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Mental Health Awareness Week

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This week is mental health awareness week, it now feels even more fitting that this was the week I choose to finally start my blog and try to spread awareness about OCD.

The mental health foundation have a questionnaire on their website where you can find out your good mental health score, Mental Health Survey .  I was surprised after having taken it answering mostly ‘Some of the time’ – so not particularly positively overall – that I actually achieved an average (“Normal”) result.  I think this helps to back up what is becoming more and more apparent that mental health issues are on the rise and effect more people then we realise – I believe the current stat is 1 in 4 people (Some Mental Health Stats).

It is very easy when you are suffering from a mental health issue to think you are alone and that no one else could be going through what you are.  When I first starting suffering I was only 11 and I had never even heard of OCD, I had no idea what was happening and it was terrifying.  The only way we can stop this happening to other people is to raise awareness.  This is why this week is so important.

Is there anybody out there?

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Isn’t OCD frustrating?  This is the question I contemplate as I sit here with a blank page wanting to write, to shout about my experiences, to share and hopefully help others, who like me are fighting the OCD battle day after day.

I say frustrating because I’ve wanted to start this blog for well over a year, it nags at me – a bit like my OCD – that I should share my experiences and not be ashamed, even if it helps one person, then it’s been  worth it.  But every time I try to sit down and start, my OCD is there haunting me saying, ‘what will people you know think’, ‘will you be able to cope with all the questions?’, ‘Will people look at you differently’, ‘will people judge me?’ and before I know it I’ve closed the computer lid – much like an OCD compulsion where by shutting the lid I’ve dealt with the situation for now – however the need to share always comes back and so here I am, being the bravest I can be, in the hope that I can at least reach a few people and maybe even help myself deal with my OCD even better.