Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a neurological and psychological disorder that affects roughly 1.2% of the population, including both adults and children. It causes those affected to experience anxiety-inducing, stressful obsessions about something bad happening, and they feel an urge to perform a certain behaviours or rituals to counteract this obsession which acts as a temporary relief from it. This can be a very challenging pattern to overcome, whereby people may fa

Unfortunately, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a disorder that is often harmfully misrepresented in the media and online as something potentially that it is not. There are many misconceptions about what it is, how it affects people and what causes it. In this blog, we aim to set the foundations to deconstruct this misrepresentation through discussing what it really is, the symptoms that commonly occur as a result, and finally what some of the possible causes might be.

Catastrophising is a very common occurrence for those who overthink and those with anxiety. It is something that can cause someone’s mental health to rapidly decline, as it not only effects their thoughts, but their behaviours, emotions, and cognition. Educating ourselves on this can allow us to identify it in ourselves and others, and therefore can allow us to research into how to stop it before more negative outcomes occur. Here we discuss answers to the question commonly a