“I’d feel the need to repeat things,” says Hosking, 50, who lives in Southampton and works as a transport planner. I just didn’t feel complete otherwise.”When he got older, he would feel compelled to ask embarrassing and inappropriate questions. Back then, few people had heard of OCD – it was not added to the official list of mental disorders until the 1980s. Hosking founded his first OCD support group in 2005, and now runs four groups: in London, Oxford, Portsmouth and Eastleigh in Hampshire. “It may be the first time they’ve met somebody else with OCD,” says Hosking.

Source: The Guardian December 19, 2021 02:34 UTC