A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away….
…lived a little blog on Windows Live Spaces called ‘Things to do in Bristol When You’re (OCD)ead’.
T2D (as it became known) held the story, thoughts, rants, observations and confessions of a guy who’d suffered from a form of OCD called ‘Pure-O’ (or obsessive thinking) since 1997 & started blogging in 2005 when he finally started seeking treatment. The aim? To give me a place to rant, to work through the demons in my head, to confess, to understand, to forgive myself for an illness that wasn’t my fault.
Yet as I went through years of psych treatment, medication & learning life would never be the same I realised how little was known about the illness. How little help there was for it, how little personal and professional understanding there was about it & the dark places it could take you. How me opening up might help some others do the same just by being brutally honest and upfront. So, amidst other musings on my life, the odd film review and the occasional comical rant – that’s what I did.
In 2010 I started leaving less entries & scaled T2D down due to Spaces being a bloody nightmare (!) & not knowing what I had left to say. Nothing was changing much, there were no more great revelations…but then, that’s not the point. Perhaps for someone else with Pure-O just knowing there’s someone here who IS still going after 14yrs and not quite barking at the moon yet is enough!
So T2D is back. I’ll try and update it regularly again and have re-categorised old posts in the sidebar on the right. For those new to the place and to OCD, go and have a read. Some stuff has changed from the posts 3-6 years ago, some hasn’t, but hopefully it’ll give an insight.
Strap in…
