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Peer support for obsessive-compulsive disorder.

A support group where people with OCD, their families and occasionally clinicians discussed symptoms, ERP therapy, medication experiences and daily coping — unmoderated but self-policing, with dark humour as load-bearing structure.

For its era it was one of the few public places to read first-person OCD accounts at all.

Reading alt.support.ocd today

  • Historical archive: Google Groups — alt.support.ocd (coverage varies by group and era).
  • Live access: point an NNTP newsreader at a modern server — see accessing Usenet today.
  • The original news2mail e-mail subscription service ended in the mid-2000s and no longer operates.