Once the argument finished I set off working to complete making new doors for the kitchen I was building. As I started my bench style router machine I commenced routing the door rail and before I knew it start to grab and dig the timber that was being machined and along its path it damaged my left hand which was pushing through the timber.

Mum rushed me off to hospital where surgery could not save a couple of my finger tips on my left hand and it was sore and painful for 12 months. I thought great I beat OCD then this happens. Once I healed from this accident I decided to move on and do something else. The moral of the story is simple if you fall over pick yourself up and try again and keep on trying until you succeed. Things stop happening as soon as you stop trying.

Personal Injury can happen to anyone and it does not take much to hurt yourself if you’re not careful.

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One morning I woke up and went outside and had a look out toward the Ocean and observed the ferry coming into the harbor. Guess what? I started to OCD about catching the ferry back when we had to leave from our holiday and sure enough I had another anxiety attack but this time it was a big attack and I fell to my knees and started crying because of the pain and my body not being able to cope anymore with anymore attacks.

My Journey Finding a solution to OCD involved myself and mum to find a Doctor to visit and I ended up seeing about 6 Doctors. One was a new Doctor and he told me there was nothing wrong with me another wanted me to go to a hospital in Germany and the charade continued. My Nana found about what happened to me and suggested for me to speak to her Doctor. After 10 minutes I was diagnosed with OCD and relief came across me because now I had a name for something that I struggled with for a long time and it was this moment in time I was discovering I had OCD.

I was prescribed Anafranil and after two weeks things started to improve and I started to feel different. The feeling I started to feel was what I now today as feeling normal and it took me a good 6 months to get used to feeling normal 24/7 something that had not happened for a very long time.

When we arrived back into Australia I went and seen my Doctor who kept me on this medication for a good 8 months where at one point I was taking about 6 pills per day. The only downfall with taking this medication was that it made me gain weight however my mental health was more important. After taking this medication my battle with OCD was over and I ended up being the winner with all OCD symptoms gone . For once I could think about whatever I wanted to do without causing OCD or anxiety attacks - Source: My Journey Finding a solution to OCD

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I remember the day clearly when I experienced my first anxiety attack and it was back in about 1978 and I was only 10 years old. As a kid I was playing with a paint lid as we were doing a minor renovation when Dad got angry and he chased me where I stood against the wall near the tap as he hit me in my head. As I struggled to survive from this experience it was when I experienced my first anxiety attack and it happened quickly.

After this experience the attacks started to come and go for a number of years and slowly the OCD crept into my life and took over until 1996. The family decided we were all to go on a holiday overseas. Now remember at this point I had experienced OCD for about 10 years and anxiety for a further 7 which was 17 years in total. At this point my body was broken and I did not know this until midway through the trip.

OCD taught me to become a problem solver and a fighter and helped shape me to becoming the tenacious and persistent person I am today it’s what helped me to survive. Back to the trip and as we all boarded onto the plane I remember experiencing another OCD attack which resulted in an anxiety attack and a few more of these followed.

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