- Title: The House Of Obsessive Compulsives
- Date: 1st August 2005
- Description:Using an intense "hot-housing" therapy technique pioneered in the USA,three sufferers of Obsessive Complusive disorder are housed together for a month in a bid to rid them of the complusions which plague them. (Two part series) Three people with obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCDs) agree to live together as part of a ground-breaking experiment in an attempt to cure them through a new kind of accelerated therapy. Over the past 20 years,all three have tried medication,assorted therapies and even considered brain surgery in order to rid themselves of their OCD. The doctors believe that by living together the group may be able to help each other overcome their obsessions. Wendy Johnston cannot touch anybody,including her husband; she insists that her husband checks every item of clothing before she can touch it because she is afraid of coming into contact with any flecks of shiny material or dirt. This has prevented her from coming into contact with her husband and two children for the last three years. Wendy believes that her compulsions started 20 years ago when she had a miscarriage. Sophie Prosser-Morgan is an obsessive washer; her fear of contamination leads her to wash her hands repeatedly. Sophie and husband Brian would like to start a family but know that this is not possible due to Sophie's obsessions. When Sophie first got a pet rabbit she explains that she was too afraid to sleep in case the rabbit died in the night and she was not there so she took to sleeping in the lounge next to it. Gerry Mackery is a 'Classic Ruminator' which means he is afraid that he might confess to imaginary crimes that he did not commit. Gerry's condition was triggered by an episode of bullying that he experienced when he was younger. He has had to give up his job as a teacher and has now become a recluse. Gerry is so worried about confessing to crimes that he avoids all forms of paper and writing materials.
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:Monkey Kingdom Ltd.
- Programme Episode:Episode 1
- Transmission Date:01/08/2005
- Rights:Worldwide
- Decade: 2000s