Support Groups

One of the biggest comforts to a sufferer is knowing that they are not alone. Whilst a sufferer may talk to family or friends they often know that deep down the person they are talking to does not truly understand.

Self help and support groups are independent groups run and attended by people affected by OCD. They provide the opportunity for people living with it to share experiences and support one another.

The goal of a support group is to create a warm, non-judgmental atmosphere where members can talk about OCD without embarrassment as well as give support and encouragement to each other. A support group is a place for people to come together to share coping strategies, discuss feelings, and make new friends.

Most support groups meet once a month and attendance is open.

OCD-UK does not run any support group but we are fully committed to supporting individuals or groups who wish to start a new OCD Support Group for sufferers, carers or both. We will also do what we can to help and support those already running a Support Group. Since August 2004 we have financially assisted 3 support groups to start/continue and been fundamental in the startup of 2 other groups.

All groups listed within these pages are run completely independent of OCD-UK.

If you are interested in starting up a support group, contact us for more information about how we can help including promotion of the group, financial support and an ocd-uk subdomain.... i.e. http://nottingham.ocduk.org

If you run a support group and wish to change your entry, please email us.

 

Locate your nearest support group

Note for Members of the Media: These support group contacts are for service users only, and are not contacts for members of the media.

1 – SCOTLAND Edinburgh Glasgow Kilmarnock	2 – WALES	6 – MIDLANDS
	Cardiff	Coventry (BDD)
		Derby
		Loughborough
	3 – LONDON	West Midlands
	Central
	Edgware	7 – EST ENGLAND
	Harlow (Essex)	Ipswich
	Hillingdon - Carers	Lowestoft
	Hillingdon - Sufferers	Norwich
	Ilford
	Southgate - BDD Group	8 – S ENGLAND
	Southgate - OCD Group	Basingstoke
	Lesbian & Gay Group	Bournemouth
		Brighton
		Canterbury
	4 – NE ENGLAND	Dartford (Nth Kent)
	Chester-Le-Street	Portsmouth
	Cleethorpes & Grimsby	Reading
	Sunderland	South Hampshire
	Scarborough	Surbiton
	Wallsend *	Tunbridge Wells
	York	Wimborne *
	5 – NW ENGLAND	9 – SW ENGLAND
	Bolton	Plymouth
	Halifax
	Liverpool	10 – N IRELAND
	Macclesfield	No groups at present
	Manchester *
	Wirral

Groups marked * we believe are no longer running following numerous attempts by the OCD-UK volunteer team to make contact with that groups facilitators.

 

If you are unable to find a group near you, check our Bulletin Board out where you will be able to advertise for people from your area who may already meet up in an informal basis.

You can also download a summary of the support groups via PDF.

 

Triumph Over Phobia Self-Help Groups

Triumph Over Phobia (TOP) also run a number of self-help groups across the UK and the following list is the location of where they currently run groups. We recommend contacting TOP for group location details and fee's for attending.

Bath
Beckenham
Birmingham
Bristol
Camberley
Chelmsford
Epsom
Gloucester
Harrogate
London
Loughborough
Manchester
Rhyl
Southampton
Stockport
Stoke on Trent
Torquay
Trowbridge
Twickenham
Wells
Jersey
Swindon

 

Ireland Groups

The following are support groups that run in Ireland.

Dublin
Kerry

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