Stories
- Article
Six personal health zines that might change your life
Personal zines put health conditions back in the hands of the people who experience them. Here are six that Wellcome Collection staff love.
- Book extract
Tracing the roots of our fears and fixations
Kate Summerscale explores the history of our anxieties and compulsions, and the new phobias and manias that are always emerging.
- Article
Diagnosing OCD in the past
Mining the writings of and about famous historical figures, retrospective psychologists try to diagnose their mental health problems. But, inevitably, partial evidence is open to misinterpretation.
- Photo story
The man who remembers everything
Tilney1 can remember his life in minute detail, but can’t control the incessant intrusion of thoughts and images from the past. As cuts to mental health services isolate him more and more, a crisis approaches.
Catalogue
- Books
The common cold : a zine about mental illness presentation and priorities / [Kirsty].
KirstyDate: 2017- Books
OCD.
Date: 2014- Books
More than just hand-washing & tidy spaces / a zine by Sharon Corish.
Corish, SharonDate: [2019?]- Books
Unthinkable : a zine about managing ocd and intrusive thoughts / by Hattie Porter.
Porter, HattieDate: [201-?]- Books
Washing my life away : surviving obsessive-compulsive disorder / Ruth Deane.
Deane, Ruth, 1971-Date: [2005]