Resources from those with Lived Experience of OCD
OCD UK have online support forums for young people and family, friends and carers that you can access here.
TED Talks YouTube channel features the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). TED and TEDx talks have videos from professionals and those with lived experience of OCD on a range of topics that you might find helpful.
Books
The Man Who Couldn't Stop: OCD and the True Story of a Life Lost in Thought
Author David Adam
The Boy Who Finally Stopped Washing: OCD From Both Sides of the Couch
Author John B.
Rewind Replay Repeat: A Memoir of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Author Jeff Bell
When in Doubt Make Belief: An OCD-Inspired Approach to Living with Uncertainty
Author Jeff Bell
Obsessive-Compulsive Anonymous: Recovering from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Author Roy C.
It's a Matter of Trust: Hope and Solutions for OCD and How I Got Better
Author James Callner
The Thing Inside My Head: A Family's Journey Through Mental Illness
Author Lois Chaber
Exiting the Maze
Author Nathan Cole
OCD and Me: My Unconventional Journey Through Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Author Bess Cunningham
Life in a Whirlwind of Numbers. 26 Years of OCD, 2nd Edition
Author David William Dahlberg
Battle for Control: A Memoir of Anorexia, Exercise Bulimia, and Other Compulsions
Author Doug Erlandson
Memoirs of a Born Shlepper Never Give OCD a Third Thought
Author Rod Fadem
Laid Bare
Author Jesse Fink
Obeying Conflicting Demands: Silencing the Voice of Obsessive-compulsive Disorder
Author Denise R. Folcik
Living With Severe Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Author Marie Gius
The People You Meet in Real Life
Author Melissa Ann Hopely
I Chose Life: A Struggle With OCD, Anxiety, & Depression
Author Greg Horne
The Thought that Counts: A Firsthand Account of One Teenager's Experience with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Author Jared Kant
I Hardly Ever Wash My Hands: The Other Side of OCD
Author J. J. Keeler
The Crazy and The Damned: An OCD Memoir: A Story of Hope & Victory
Author Robert Lanni
Saving Sammy: Curing the Boy Who Caught OCD
Author Beth Alison Maloney
An OCD Life
Author Fred Mletzko
From Tortured to Almost Free: A Psychiatric Therapist's Life with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Author Cathy Goldstein Mullin, LICSW
Fixation Pains: A True Struggle for Survival
Author John Michael Molinari, III
Life in Rewind: The Story of a Young Courageous Man Who Persevered Over OCD and the Harvard Doctor Who Broke All the Rules to Help Him
Author Terry Weible Murphy, Michael A. Jenike, and Edward E Zine
Check Mates: A Collection of Fiction Poetry and Artwork About Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder by People with OCD
Author E.I. Muse and Jennifer Abrams
Desert Lily
Author Peter A. Pascaris
Contaminated: My Journey Out of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Author Gerry Radano, MSW
"It'll be Okay:" How I Kept Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) from Ruining My Life
Author Shannon Shy
Strivings Within - The OCD Christian: Overcoming Doubt in the Storm of Anxiety
Author Mitzi VanCleve
Triggered: A Memoir of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Author Fletcher Wortmann