hi everyone so today I want to talk about John Richardson a little bit OCD which was a program
a couple of days ago on channel 4 and I was really looking forward to this for two reasons one John
Richardson what's not to like and two because I've had issues with OCD a lot in my life and
very brief backstory just so you know where my personal opinions are coming from when I wear my
eating disorder with its most serious my OCD was insane you know and now it's still not like good
it takes me forever to shut about whole legs I get panicky that's gonna leak and detox or a nightmare
plug straighteners takes me forever to leave the house because I get power out of left something
on also stems from my fear of fire like insane fear not just like oh dear it's a bit dangerous
you know tragic fear and so that's kind of where I'm coming from I do have symptoms I don't know
if medically I still have OCD it's not as bad but anyway so I do have kind of experience with some
of the things in fact quite a lot of the things but on in my old scale that are being said in this
and John Richardson may seem like an unlikely presenter for this if you're not familiar with
his work however he does suffer from OCD and the pointless program was not for him to say
I have OCD let's go and have you know I started documentary about it for him personally it was
to see whether or not he did actually have OCD because it wasn't actually clinically diagnosed
it's just he knew that he had little sort of quirks and things which other people think are
abnormal so while he's on his quest to find out whether he has OCD or not he's meeting various
other people who suffer from it and it's different extremes as well because people think Oh OCD it's
you know completely uncontrollable but there are people for example like myself I guess where we
do little things and it's fine we get on with her life I mean as I said sometimes for me it
can be a bit time-consuming but not overly and I know one thing which is kind of like what John
Richardson does I won't obviously tell you all things that are mentioned because I think that's
part of the part of the enjoyment of it and I mean in the least disgusting way possible is
thinking what's the next person's OCD quirk and I don't mean thinking who is going to be a good one
I mean what's next is it something I can relate to is it something that is going to astound me is
it something I've never heard before and there are quite a few things which popped up which I kind of
thought that's that must be horrible to live with I you know I was never laugh at and I struggle to
get through the day sometimes when I was at my worst how are they coping I really feel sorry
for them and I really hope they get help kind of thing one John Richardson thing as I was saying
couple minutes ago when he walks on the path he has to walk a certain way and I can get like that
if my footsteps are not in sync or if I take one footstep sort of even just slightly further than
I should I have to kind of time balance it out and I never walk on three drains but I think
that's quite a common one so I think if you are a software or if you're if you don't think you're
suffering then you watch this and realize hang on maybe I am it's very emotional even when it gets
to the point where some of the people it's off the scale of your own experiences it's very hard
to watch it's very emotional it is a struggle to get through it's only an hour long which I think
it's the perfect time for it but you are watching it thinking up I just feel physically sick this is
this is human behavior this is what we've come to we are basically obsessive and compulsive and it's
it's hard to deal with it's part of everyday life and most of us will suffer from OCD on some scale
whether or not it's too extreme or we just have our own little habits that we need to keep sort of
aligned very well I could very well put together I thought the sections between each one really good
the time spent on each individual person in each case study I guess if you like was perfect the
emotional level was just increasing continuously I did cry quite a bit actually absolutely loved
it very beautifully put together and it's just a shame that it's not such a serious topic no
really a television but look what caused this great calories and but it's very very well done
I can't imagine how much of an emotional journey it must have been for John Richardson personally
I know I wouldn't have been able to do some time TV show like this but if anybody's watching I'll
do it yeah but it would have been very difficult I imagine go ahead to 4od if you haven't seen it
I'm not sure a 4od on YouTube have applauded it and I'm sorry to my international viewers
I don't know authority is international or not but give it a go a very very brilliant program
and I hope there is more like exploring sort of similar things but yeah I'm very emotional very
hard to watch but for all the right reasons let me your thoughts and I'll see you all next time bye