{"id":36805,"date":"2023-11-14T18:29:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T18:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ocduk.org\/?page_id=36805"},"modified":"2023-11-14T18:29:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T18:29:48","slug":"sara","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ocduk.org\/ocduk\/people\/sara\/","title":{"rendered":"Sara"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_34172\" style=\"width: 257px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocduk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Beanie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34172\" class=\"wp-image-34172\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ocduk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Beanie.jpg\" alt=\"Sara with Beanie Hat\" width=\"247\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ocduk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Beanie.jpg 824w, https:\/\/www.ocduk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Beanie-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/www.ocduk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Beanie-768x932.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ocduk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Beanie-100x121.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.ocduk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Beanie-600x728.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34172\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sara with Beanie Hat<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hi, I\u2019m Sara and I am Support Co-ordinator at OCD-UK.\u00a0 I was diagnosed with OCD around the age of 15, and struggled to navigate relationships, education and employment because of my symptoms, which were quite debilitating until my mid-20s.\u00a0 I received unhelpful treatment for many years, and it was only through attending OCD-UK conferences and reading books covering CBT that I was able to see that there was a way out of my distress.\u00a0 I now consider myself in recovery and am so pleased to now have the opportunity to give back to the charity and help others with OCD.<\/p>\n<p>My role involves responding to support emails, helpline calls and supporting my colleagues with their work.\u00a0 I have also been interested in psychology for a long time and I am hoping in the future to undertake a part time Open University degree in the subject.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I\u2019m Sara and I am Support Co-ordinator at OCD-UK.\u00a0 I was diagnosed with OCD around the age of 15, and struggled to navigate relationships, education and employment because of my symptoms, which were quite debilitating until my mid-20s.\u00a0 I &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocduk.org\/ocduk\/people\/sara\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4822,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-36805","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocduk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocduk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocduk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocduk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocduk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocduk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36805\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocduk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocduk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}