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Anonymous OCD Story

Posted on June 17th, 2024 by orchard@admin

“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” – Leonard Cohen

Seb’s OCD Story

Posted on February 24th, 2023 by orchard@admin

In this week’s blog, Seb Joyce shares his OCD story. My name is Seb Joyce, I am a 37-year-old British Army Officer, husband, and father of two girls. I enjoy running, climbing, reading, board gaming and spending time with my family. I also suffer from OCD. The evening of 26th August 2021 changed my life […]

2022 Call for Proposals – Winner Announcement

Posted on February 13th, 2023 by orchard@admin

In 2022 we launched our second call for proposals seeking hard-to-fund projects that have great potential to make a major impact for obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). We received many great submissions, and our independent scientific advisory board judged the projects last year. We are now excited to announce our winner: “Double-blind Randomised Placebo-controlled study of […]

Announcement of Orchard 2022 Christmas Appeal – Let’s break the stigma around OCD

Posted on November 18th, 2022 by orchard@admin

We have an exciting announcement.  This year we will be doing our first-ever Christmas Appeal! Let’s break the stigma around OCD and show OCD is not a joke. OCD advocate, Shaun has a few words to say to introduce our Christmas appeal: Here at Orchard, we want to film a video series to spread awareness […]