Training for all social and health care relating to OCD
Training for all social and health care relating to OCD
The Issue
Imaging having OCD and telling a midwife why you took medication for her to report you to social care to be investiged to keep your children even though all mental health services stated OCD does not make you a risk. This happened to me and it was the worse time of my life!
I would like to see all health and social care have training around OCD. To understand intrusive thoughts and it's not all about cleaning.
The nature of intrusive thoughts related to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD).
Sometimes this leads to safeguarding reports, and such referrals because of OCD are sadly not unique, but
the fact remains each time it happens because of OCD it’s unnecessary, damaging and avoidable. Such
referrals are usually inappropriate when in context of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Most cases that are involved with, the intrusive thoughts are clearly as a result of OCD, which the NHS
recognised NICE Guidelines for the treatment of OCD (CG31) are clear to state an expert in OCD should be
consulted:
“Consult mental health professional with specific expertise in OCD if uncertain about risks associated with
intrusive sexual, aggressive,sexually acts on children or death-related thoughts. (These themes are common in OCD and are often
misinterpreted as indicating risk.)” It is important to note that there are research paper that state not one person has been charged with SA against children, this is because the thoughts are sicking, stressful and people will use avoidance to stay away from situation.
It’s because of these repeated failures to understand OCD that specialists in the condition wrote a paper
called ‘Risk assessment and management in Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder’ Veale, Freeston, Krebs, Heyman and Salkovskis
OCD is a complex and
difficult mental health condition to understand and as many as 4% of the population are suffering because professionals are uneducated on this Illness leading to damaging reports and treatment.
Futher information
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/a534c571-035c-4423-9dd9-33c8d425f5f3
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The Issue
Imaging having OCD and telling a midwife why you took medication for her to report you to social care to be investiged to keep your children even though all mental health services stated OCD does not make you a risk. This happened to me and it was the worse time of my life!
I would like to see all health and social care have training around OCD. To understand intrusive thoughts and it's not all about cleaning.
The nature of intrusive thoughts related to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD).
Sometimes this leads to safeguarding reports, and such referrals because of OCD are sadly not unique, but
the fact remains each time it happens because of OCD it’s unnecessary, damaging and avoidable. Such
referrals are usually inappropriate when in context of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Most cases that are involved with, the intrusive thoughts are clearly as a result of OCD, which the NHS
recognised NICE Guidelines for the treatment of OCD (CG31) are clear to state an expert in OCD should be
consulted:
“Consult mental health professional with specific expertise in OCD if uncertain about risks associated with
intrusive sexual, aggressive,sexually acts on children or death-related thoughts. (These themes are common in OCD and are often
misinterpreted as indicating risk.)” It is important to note that there are research paper that state not one person has been charged with SA against children, this is because the thoughts are sicking, stressful and people will use avoidance to stay away from situation.
It’s because of these repeated failures to understand OCD that specialists in the condition wrote a paper
called ‘Risk assessment and management in Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder’ Veale, Freeston, Krebs, Heyman and Salkovskis
OCD is a complex and
difficult mental health condition to understand and as many as 4% of the population are suffering because professionals are uneducated on this Illness leading to damaging reports and treatment.
Futher information
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/a534c571-035c-4423-9dd9-33c8d425f5f3
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The Decision Makers
Petition created on 28 March 2023