alt.support.ocd
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.