'OCD UK' Workshop✏

 Last Thursday, 7pm, I attended a drawing workshop, on zoom, run by the charity 'OCD UK'. There was quite a few of us on the call, all who have previously suffered from OCD, or who are currently. I found it comforting to just be on the call, with people who understand how I feel and people who don't think I am 'crazy'. 

The aim of the workshop was to chat, discuss, and to draw. The point of the workshop was not to produce beautiful artwork, but to express how your OCD makes you feel. Using whatever medium we wanted, we started off, just drawing and talking. Here are a few photos of what I produced:

These two here were to show the loneliness I feel with my OCD. Not many people around me acknowledge I have it, or even know. I have only started to speak about it recently. Being called 'crazy' has scarred me I think, and whenever my OCD 'comes into play', this word enters my brain and makes me feel so isolated. As if no one will ever understand me. I am slowly realising this isn't the case but this fear and isolation is something I really associate with my OCD.

A few notes I made from the zoom:

Another way I would describe my OCD is like having a monster inside my brain, eating away at my thoughts and bringing intrusive and worrying ones to replace them. I think a lot of people, from the zoom and others who I have spoken too, can relate to this. You know the thoughts are irrational but you still seem to believe in them.

Overall, I think this workshop was really beneficial. The actual charity has an amazing website, full of great information. The zoom itself opened up my eyes, and helped me realise we aren't alone, or crazy, we just suffer from OCD.