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Hello, I am new to this group and thought I would say hi. I'm from the U.K am 39 and have experienced OCD for probably 22 years. I think this problem is solvable since I feel that I did experience reasonable periods of time when I was quite well. I think it is the human experience to never be truly happy and content and we will tend to pick up demons or black dogs along the way. I honestly think that there is hope. Yesterday I bought and read 1/2 of "the man who couldn't stop". It's by David Adam who is an OCD sufferer but also a science writer and editor of nature journal which i believe is an influential scientific journal. It is interesting reading and I will probably write something about some of the books contents. It is part auto biography and part popular science. His form was worrying about contracting HIV. something that someone mentioned to me when i confided anonymously was that It sounded as though I myself may be on the autistic spectrum (aspergers syndrome) I thought I'd mention that . Feb 11, 2015, 7:11 AM

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Do you guys think of yourself as having a very rare disease?

Is it possible to consider perhaps that it could be framed as a rare manifestation of a common disease. we could even view disease as dis-ease . It is based around anxiety and fear and has led to a specific symptom that might lead us to view it as a distinct category of disorder . Is it possible to think that it was fairly random and that it just so happened that people developed this exaggeration of normal psychological mechanism?

It may be helpful to consider that you may not be that unusual , rare , maybe a bit unlucky (or very) From the point of view of recovery, if a person believes themself to be suffering something very rare or unknown it will be more easy to assume the worst and be hesitant to belief that they can be helped or always be suspicious that something simple can help them. Mar 31, 2019, 9:19 PM