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Our concerns about Channel 4's Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners have also been echoed by one of the leading OCD experts, Professor Paul Salkovskis. Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners I first heard about what I presume was this programme when I was contacted...

People who have obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) experience intrusive thoughts, fears and/or urges, called obsessions, which are related to cleanliness, symmetry, order or contamination. Someone with this disorder may spend several hours of each day...

The other week, I ‘perved’ on a teenage girl in a displacement camp. The sixteen or seventeen year-old from Nuba in South Sudan, now languishing uneasily in the nearby town of Kodok and being filmed by a team of BBC cameramen, was wearing a thread-bare...

            This is a continuation from my last two blogs where I had been purifying the definition I hold of the word ‘skin’, in order to release that old definition and create a new one which is supportive. This new definition will be one which I can...

“Oh pipe down Steph. You’re not depressed, you just need to go to Church.” For as long as I can remember, I had always been taught (from people I knew to media/news) that there was no such thing as ‘depression’. As an African (bearing in mind that I...