Exploring Life with OCD: A Special Collaboration

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our Collaboration with Hurt to Healing: Exploring Life with OCD

During OCD Awareness Week in October 2025, we teamed up with Hurt to Healing for a special podcast series exploring life with OCD — what it’s really like, beyond the clichés and stereotypes.

To listen to the podcast, visit https://ocdaction.org.uk/hurt-to-healing-ocd-action/

YOUR Host: Pandora Morris

Pandora has lived with OCD since she was 12. The series includes three episodes:

• Pandora’s own story and conversations with:
• actor Kimberley Nixon and
• writer and journalist Bryony Gordon.

Together, they talk openly about living with OCD, recovery, and the messy, human parts in between.

We’re really proud to be part of this collaboration. Pandora and her guests bring such depth and warmth to these conversations, and we know so many people in our community will see themselves reflected in them.

Pandora shares her journey with OCD, what inspired her to start Hurt to Healing, and what you can expect from this special series.

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Other OCD-Related Support Services – Find Out More!

In addition to OCD Action, other organisations provide useful, reliable and relevant support for people with OCD and OCD-related conditions and their friends, families and carers. Find out more on our Resources page: https://ocdaction.org.uk/resources/

These are just some of the many organisations:

Maternal OCD: They provide help for women with perinatal obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), a debilitating anxiety disorder, which is treatable. Maternal OCD’s aims are to:

• Raise awareness of perinatal OCD to healthcare professionals, mums to be/new mums, researchers and national decision-makers
• Provide information and support to mums and their families
• Encourage and support perinatal OCD research

BDD Foundation: Provides support for people with Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD), a preoccupation with perceived defects/flaws in appearance, often cause excessive self-consciousness. The Foundation:

• explains that BDD is a treatable condition and how, with the right help, recovery is very possible.
• provides information on support and treatment services available to UK residents
• recognises that the BDD community is worldwide. They encourage everyone to seek help and support through online services that can be accessed anywhere.

Asto Clinics: Asto is a UK charity providing treatment based on what works for individuals living with OCD. Asto’s founder, Steve Turnock, suffered from severe OCD and is aware of how life-changing the right support can be.

International OCD Foundation: The IOCDF is a large nonprofit serving the OCD community world-wide, including family members and health professionals. The IOCDF is known for:

• Their mission – to ensure that no one affected by OCD and related disorders is alone. Their community provides help, healing and hope.
• Their vision – that everyone impacted by OCD and related disorders has access to effective treatment and support.
• Their work – providing up-to-date education and resources, quality professional training, and advancing research.

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