Hey guys,
I wanted to write on here to reflect on my journey with OCD so far. I had my first call with Rob in Spring 2021 but only really started having regular calls with Momin in 2023. I came in with severe ROCD and with Intelligence OCD I’d had since I was a kid. I once locked myself in the bathroom for two hours doing IQ test after IQ test to check if I was intelligent.

I constantly obsessed about whether my relationship was right, if I felt enough love, and if I should break up or not. All of that was made harder because I was long distancing from the UK to Australia. At the time, I would tell my girlfriend that I never wanted to move to Australia at any point in my life. I had never left London and couldn’t think beyond living in London, and I was terrified of the idea of ever moving abroad.

At my work, I was coasting and terrified of making mistakes or being seen as stupid. I wasn’t stepping out of my comfort zone in my career, and I was in an industry where I wasn’t making the money I wanted to make.

With Momin’s support and my own drive, I took small, incremental actions and behaviour changes because I wanted a better life. I moved to Sydney last year for a year, probably the first time I’d ever left London for more than a month. I then quit my job, and this year I have lived in Singapore while pursuing a Masters at one of the best business schools in the world. A few weeks ago, I was offered a great position at a global consulting firm in their Sydney office. In February, I will be moving back to Sydney permanently to start this new job, and in September my partner will become my wife as we are getting married in London. I now want to live in so many different places and have become curious about the world and different cultures.

I’m not recovered, and sometimes I feel embarrassed that I’ve been in this group for so long, but it’s easy to forget that I have come very far. I’m proud of where I am today. Maybe the journey will be a bit longer for me, and I think that’s alright. I’ll get there eventually.