Top 10 Worst OCD Stories
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder or OCD for short is a scary thng for a person to have.
Their mind is fulled with unwanted thoughts and ideas that lead them to perform repetetive
and complicated rituals in order to feel clean or to even keep their loved ones safe from
harm.
Today, were gonna be taking a look at some of the most serious cases around.
My name is Danny Burke and this is the top 10 worst OCD Stories.
https://alizul2.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/10-most-extreme-cases-of-obsessive.html
Starting off at number 10 we have Serin Rayer-Davies.
This woman appeared on British TV to share her story of extreme OCD and her fear of contamination.
Serin was so scared of germs that she would have to wash her hair up to 72 times a day
and would rewash the same laundry load up to 15 times.
She thought that if she didnt do that - her parents would die.
Everything had to be clean around her Fortunately, she went through therapy and retrained her
brain to not make irrational links between everyday germs and her parents dying.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/23-year-old-woman-explains-11031286
Coming in at number 9 we have Richard Wallace.
You may have heard of hoarders before - people who obsessively collect objects in their homes
and cant let go of them - Richard was an extreme examples of this.
His collection of items he didnt need was so big that he couldnt even fit it all in
his house - in fact - it could even be seen from google earth.
He appeared on the British TV show Obsessive Compulsive Hoarders.
He had endless piles of newspapers, magazines and cereal boxes that he just couldnt let
go of.
In total, the junk came to about 30 tonnes.
There was even a play written about it, with his permission of course.
Thankfully, the TV show helped Richard clear out his home and begin to deal with his OCD
…
http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/whats-on/arts-culture-news/tale-obsessive-compulsive-hoarder-richard-7157454
Moving on to number 8 we have Ed Zine.
This American man appeared on the show -Pushed To The Extreme- to tell his OCD story.
After his mother died, Ed became unable to perform the simplest of tasks.
Getting up to go the bathroom would take him 7 - 10 hours to achieve.
How were these connected?
Well Eds brain had dealt with the grief of his mothers death and the fear of losing his
own life in a very unique way.
He had convinced himself that doing things passed time and if enough time passed he too
would die.
So, he became stuck in a vicious loop where his fear of time moving forward meant he could
barely even function.
If he ever did make it to the bathroom, he would have to leave it moving backwards - exactly
the same way he entered.
Therapy helped him overcome these problems but it is still a daily battle for him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLIys5Jso5s
Next up at number 7 we have Lily Bailey.
This girl from the UK grew up with OCD from a young age that produced many stressful habits
but one stood out from the rest.
When she was 16 she started to obsess over letters - she would collect them over the
day.
If a friend she was walking with got to close she would add the letter S for space to her
list.
If a stranger bumped into her arm she would add an A for arm.
A child might walk past and the thought entered her head that she might be called a peadophile
if she looked at their bum - so she added the letter B for bum to her list.
Then as their friend talks about a person, she worried that she was pulling a strange
face so, you guessed it, she added an F for face.
Then she would repeat the letters over and over again - adding another every time something
happened.
By the end of the day, she would be chanting a string of 100 letters or more in her head.
Thanks to psychotherapy, Lilys OCD is now being treated.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/29/my-brain-was-filled-with-weird-uncomfortable-thoughts-lily-bailey-on-living-with-ocd
Next up at number 6 we have 1A.
Thats the online name of a woman who shared her OCD story on a self help site.
She said that she limits herself to a certain number of syllables per sentence.
So she will decided, the next sentence has to have 20 syllables in and if she goes over
it, she just doesnt speak for a while, sometimes for the rest of the day.
To make matters even worse, she will often count out 4 beats in her head as she speaks
and she has to fit a certain amount of syllables into those 4 beats otherwise - you guessed
it - she cant speak.
Im really hoping I don't end up with this otherwise these videos are gonna get a lot
harder.
http://www.dpselfhelp.com/forum/index.php?/topic/7390-worst-case-of-ocd-ever/
At the number 5 spot now we have Jean.
This man was studied by French Psychologist Pierre Janet who said Jean had serious OCD
issues surrounding his own health and the fear of death.
Most of us worry about these things at some point in our lives - who doesnt?
But you dont sit there checking every one of your heart beats do you?
Jean did.
He would listen and feel every single one of heartbeats and would have a full blown
panic attack if any of them felt slightly irregular.
Can you imagine how consuming that would be?
Jean also had an obsession with his own genitals but were not gonna go into that.
I guess I didnt need to bring that up at all did I …
Next up at number 4 we have Courtney.
This woman appeared on the Dr Phil show to talk about her obsessive fear of germs.
She washes her hands constantly, on bad days it can be up to 200 times, scrubbing them
so hard they start to bleed.
She would have to keep checking the stove was off before leaving the house, touching
them in the same order over and over again.
When she gets home from work, she always has to step onto paper towels and shuffle her
way to the bathroom for a shower.
She wont even touch a towel before the shower because she feels shes too dirty.
When shes out of the shower, she has to scrub her phone and keys with disinfecting wipes
and then her infant son is allowed out of his room to see her.
The OCD almost caused her partner to leave her.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaILwcrdc38
Moving on to number 3 we have Hugh Turner.
This man from the UK has OCD revolving around the number 12.
It all started as a kid when his teachers made him do his 12 times table.
12,24,36,48 etc.
As an adult, he has to count everything he sees up to the number 12 - eggs, potatoes,
tins in the cupboard, he counts to 12 and hes calm.
He is also so obsessed with keeping things tidy and clean that he hasnt taken any clothes
out of his wardrobe in years!
He worries that touching them will lead to the death of one of his family or friends.
This is just the tip of his 40 year long OCD and no treatment has worked so far.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/jul/12/healthandwellbeing.familyandrelationships
Next up at number 2 we have Scott Rossborough.
This Canadian man has severe OCD that manifests itself in a number of ways.
When hes washing clothes at his apartment, he would fill his basket with clothes and
on the way back upstairs - if his basket hit anything - he would have to wash his clothes
all over again.
He would also have to scrub the actual basket in the shower as well.
Other times, Scott would driving and hit a bump in the road.
He would freak out and think he had hit someone and would have to go back to check that it
was a bump.
He would then drive away, the fear would hit him again and he would have to go back and
check.
Sometimes this would last for half an hour - making it almost impossible to get anything
done in his life …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4sadYeLHKU&t=305s
Coming in at number 1 we have Nichola Tesla.
This man is known as one of the greatest inventors of all time thanks to his contributions to
x rays, radio, radar and electrical power.
He also suffered from OCD.
Those who knew him said he was obsessed with the number 3 - he would often have to walk
around the area 3 times before entering a building.
He would count every jaw movement he made while eating and always had to use exactly
18 napkins during a meal.
He was scared of round objects and also germs - he couldnt touch hair or shake hands with
people.
Many people think this is what led him to be a celibate man - he never had sex.
Tesla himself said this allowed him to focus on his experiments, perhaps helping him become
the great inventor we know him as today.