![]() ![]() The decision to make a safeguarding referral because someone is suffering from OCD is completely and utterly wrong and only happens because of a complete lack of specialist knowledge. More devastatingly, he was also told that he would not be allowed contact with his own son. “There has never been a recorded case of a person with OCD acting on their intrusive thoughts, according to Professor David Veale, a consultant psychiatrist regarded as the UK’s leading specialist in OCD”.īecause Matt’s job involved working with children, he was suspended pending an investigation triggered by the referral. When he told a mental health nurse, they made a safeguarding referral to social services, despite the fact that people with OCD are highly unlikely to act on their intrusive thoughts: The obsessive part of the illness often worsens. Some people with OCD develop methods (compulsions) to try and ward off the thoughts or mitigate them somehow, but it doesn’t help. This was obviously deeply disturbing for Matt but the more he tried to bat the thoughts away, the worse they became. They often focus on things that are important to the individual and warp them into deeply upsetting images or thought patterns that seem to get worse the more the individual worries about them or tries to get them to go away.įor Matt (name changed), one of the people in the BBC article, the intrusive thoughts concerned random people – especially family members – popping up in his head during sexual intercourse with his partner. For people with OCD, intrusive thoughts can be a major problem. The article focused on a handful of people whose admission of their mental health condition resulted in their lives being completely upturned. The stories it told were so egregiously unfair, I struggled to read the piece through to the end. (16) His plummy accent, polite demeanour and sartorial elegance remind one of an era when business was conducted at gentlemen's clubs over cigars and port.A few days ago, an article appeared in the ‘Long Reads’ section of the BBC News website. (15) A unique combination of tact, charm, deportment and sartorial style, he was all one would wish to see in an idol. (14) No wonder the Western world has been smitten by the sari, and every woman with a smidgen of sartorial savvy wants one. ![]() (13) She was conscious that many women would have seen such a sartorial disaster as comical. (12) In his prime he was very handsome, but dressed down as if he feared any sartorial display would distract from his teaching. (11) On Bastille Day, there would be a sartorial epidemic of clothes coloured red, white, and blue. ![]() (10) I've dressed up a bit in deference to Evans's sartorial elegance. (9) Blackmore performs in a sartorial nightmare of clashing colours and incongruous items of clothing. (8) Sporting sunglasses and a black sleeveless shirt, with his hair parted down the middle, he said he took his sartorial inspiration from Indian film star Tere-Naam after watching one of his movies. (7) Patients prefer doctors to dress in a semiformal style, but when accompanied by a smiling face it is even better, suggesting a friendly manner may be more important than sartorial style. (6) I could afford to be superior about sartorial disasters I witnessed all around me. (5) Indeed her presence influenced women at court to copy her sartorial style. (4) Since there's little danger of hypothermia when the water temperature is 80 degrees, your chief sartorial concern is not offending other boaters. (3) Despite the late-June heat - and the prospect of three hours of strenuous exercise-almost nobody had committed the sartorial faux pas of wearing short pants. (2) His friends and colleagues will miss his humour, conscientiousness, and sartorial elegance. (1) In the ensuing confusion, everyone in the room, king, nobles and commoners alike, ended up removing their hats, and the meeting continued on a note of sartorial equality. ![]()
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