Allie
15-02-06, 01:19
Last week a range of so called 'WEIRD' action figures were featured on the daytime television show TODAY WITH DES & MEL, in which a doll with 'OCD' complete with free wet wipes was featured as part of a so called 'LIGHT HEARTED' article.
As a sufferer of OCD and related conditions, I was really upset that such an item should have been featured as it openly made fun of this very real medical condition.
I was in tears and also very angry at the fact that host Des O'Connor quipped and i quote ' How could anybody live with somebody like that?'
Knowing that this sort of opinion has been aired freely on daytime TV, does anyone else agree with me that this was most inappropriate in nature, a senseless jibe and most ultimately uninformative to those who may not know of OCD and anxiety conditions thus creating a misrepresentaion of the condition ?
What can we do to ensure that OCD sufferers are treated with the respect we deserve and not merely treated as freaks to be made a mockery of in future?
I am most concerned!
Please let me know you thoughts.
Allie
THE VOICE INSIDE YOUR HEAD IS NOT THE VOICE OF GOD. IT JUST SOUNDS LIKE IT THINKS IT IS! Cheri Huber
As a sufferer of OCD and related conditions, I was really upset that such an item should have been featured as it openly made fun of this very real medical condition.
I was in tears and also very angry at the fact that host Des O'Connor quipped and i quote ' How could anybody live with somebody like that?'
Knowing that this sort of opinion has been aired freely on daytime TV, does anyone else agree with me that this was most inappropriate in nature, a senseless jibe and most ultimately uninformative to those who may not know of OCD and anxiety conditions thus creating a misrepresentaion of the condition ?
What can we do to ensure that OCD sufferers are treated with the respect we deserve and not merely treated as freaks to be made a mockery of in future?
I am most concerned!
Please let me know you thoughts.
Allie
THE VOICE INSIDE YOUR HEAD IS NOT THE VOICE OF GOD. IT JUST SOUNDS LIKE IT THINKS IT IS! Cheri Huber