OCD Week

As well as running engaging, informing and inspiring events during OCD Week, we are working with our team of awareness volunteers to spread the word about OCD and fight ignorance and prejudice.

Sign Up as an Awareness Champion

Spreading awareness of OCD is vital. Reports show that it can take an average of 12 years between an individual developing OCD and getting help. That is 12 years of needless misery, of muddling through and hiding rituals and anxiety from loved ones.

Often the delay is due to people feeling ashamed of having a disorder, fear of getting treatment or simply not knowing where to turn. We can change this.

Awareness is the key. By making more people aware of the signs and symptoms of OCD, by talking openly and unashamedly about the disorder and by pointing people in the right direction to get treatment, we can help thousands of people take action to improve the quality of their lives.

Throughout the year, our Champions play a major role in spreading awareness of OCD by distributing posters and booklets and by giving talks in schools, universities, clubs and societies. OCD Week is a great opportunity to step up this work and make sure that more people than ever before are made aware of this often secret disorder.

When you sign up to be a champion, we will send you a pack containing the OCD awareness materials that you need along with a tracking form to help us make sure that we are covering certain areas. We can also help you with talks and presentations and advise on other ways to spread the word.

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