Did the anxiety awareness diploma today and passed first time... yaaaay!
OCD is, according to the course, a serious anxiety disorder that can only be recovered from if the anxiety causing the obsessions and compulsions is addressed and totally sorted out.
I've never had any kind of professional support with overcoming it, but I've got rid of at least 95% of what it used to be like. Still check the front door is on the latch so that I can get back in every morning when I take the pup for her walk and give the latch a quick pull just to make sure it's locked when I've answered the door to someone but that's nothing compared to how it used to be and I did it all by meself!
There's someone coming to fit a CCTV camera at lunchtime tomorrow so I'll do the self-harm course first thing so that I'm not interrupted half way through the course, then do the depression awareness course on Friday and Saturday 'cos that one's definitely the 16 moduler so it'll take a couple of days to do it and the assessment at the end of the course on Saturday afternoon/evening will be the most challenging part because of my brain damage/cruddy memory.
I'm determined to pass it first time as well though!