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Name: | Alicia Falconer |
Age: | 18 |
Year of the Fix: | 2016 |
Location: | Grangemouth, Stirlingshire |
Campaign: | To help people understand Obsessive Compulsive Disorder |
I was diagnosed with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder when I was 11-years-old after suffering from panic attacks.
I made a real effort to stop the rituals, but then my grandad passed away.
I felt like it was my fault and ever since then, I’ve had this fear that if I stop, people will die.
Sometimes I think my mum will be involved in a car crash unless I tap the table a number of times.
The thoughts became so overwhelming, that I couldn’t leave the house for months to go to school.
I wasn’t well enough to sit my exams, and lost out on my dream of going to university.
I’m much better now and have found success in competing in beauty pageants, where I hope to become a campaigner on mental health.
My Fixers project is about showing that OCD is no laughing matter. People often joke that they’re ‘a bit OCD’, without realising how debilitating it is.
That’s why I’ve designed a poster, which I plan to show in doctor’s surgeries and in schools, showing how OCD had affected my life.
Lauren Taylor
Liam Thomas
Macauley Collinson
Me and my friends want young people to know that calories aren't the enemy!
Fixers
Hannah Carter
Jo Quinn
Jade Kingdom
Sam Barakat
Fern Lulham
Jack H
Meghann
Tilly and Bella
Becky Thorn
Mary-Anne White and Lucy Wills
Sam Womack
Shak & Natasha
Hannah Baker
Alexandra Garrick
Becky
Olivia G
Shannon Rawlings
'Ben'
'Kate'
Timothy Cranfield