Pure: Now a major Channel 4 series

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I remember doing my GCSEs and having these thoughts literally every minute and feeling this dread. The horror and the guilt. It felt as if I’d killed someone, hidden their body in the garden, and it was going to get discovered at any moment. That was the level of nightmarishness.’ Tis the season for disappointment! These hilarious festive mishaps failed to capture the magic of Christmas Paris Hilton cradles son Phoenix by the pink Christmas tree she lit in honor of her newborn daughter London Bobby Brazier's Strictly tribute to Jade Goody moves judges Shirley Ballas, Anton Du Beke and actor's father Jeff to tears

Meghan and Kate were encouraged to dress like Diana 'so some of her shine could rub off on them', Sussex cheerleader claims in new book Her parents, aware of her anxiety, were acutely worried. Rose went to her GP but was too embarrassed to go into detail. She was prescribed antidepressants but found they did nothing to stop the thoughts. I’d met a new man, who I loved, and I really wanted to build something with this guy. But the more I tried to grasp at that, the more intrusive my thoughts became.Opening up about OCD to loved ones and the wider world can be very therapeutic. But talking aboutsymptoms can easily become obsessive in itself, especially on social media. I often see people inforums ‘confessing’ their thoughts or telling others that they’d never act out their obsessions. This kindof reassurance will feel good in the short term, but it’s destructive in the long term. Support from yourpeers is a wonderful thing, but make sure they’re not unknowingly colluding in your compulsivebehaviour.

These different "themes" are used to group OCD into more specific subtypes. For instance, a person suffering from violent intrusive thoughts may be told they're experiencing something called Harm OCD. A person with blasphemous religious thoughts, may be told they're experiencing something called Scrupulosity or Religious OCD. These ideas did not sit well with her – “I really did want to be with my boyfriend and would rather not be thinking about naked women. But resisting the temptation to run away from it took away some of its power.” Rose Bretécher says: "When I wrote my memoir, Pure, my mental health condition was virtually unheard of, and my thoughts were deeply taboo. Now, to collaborate on its adaptation with such a talented, diligent, witty team, is an extraordinary validation and privilege. As my story is reimagined on-screen, we have a unique opportunity to reach untold thousands of people who have lived for years, as I did, in secrecy and shame. To humanise their darkest experiences, to empower them to change, and to give them new hope."David Walliams 'is offered a multi-million-pound payout' from Britain's Got Talent after claiming he was spied on before axing for X-rated rant Beyonce reveals daughter Blue Ivy 'trained even harder' to perform on her Renaissance tour after reading negative social media comments about her dancing And they are not all sexual. Now they centre on other things, like the structural integrity of buildings or worries about my body.’ It was never going to be an exact representation of what happened to me. I wrote a finite book that covers a specific period of my life. This is a show that we pitched as a returning series, it’s a different format, so it was always going to grow, there were always going to be new characters introduced. Yes, I wanted it to be an accurate portrayal of OCD, but at the same time, OCD isn’t monolithic either. Mental health is so subjective, it can only ever be one person’s story. Two people with OCD will not have the same path, so I can only really speak for myself and my own experiences of OCD.