Research into OCD - Please help!

Hiya,

I'm looking for OCD sufferers to help me with my research into the personal experience of OCD. I'm conducting the research for my final year dissertation for my psychology degree

A bit about me ... i'm 21 years old and i've had OCD for about 3 or 4 years (not too sure how or when it started to be honest). I have arranging compulsions and a preoccupation with doing things in the 'right' way. I don't have a diagnosis and have so far managed to keep the OCD relatively under control by myself.

Like I said, my research is about the personal experience of OCD. I plan to interview OCD sufferers via MSN Messenger (interviews will take aprox. 1 hour) and ask questions mainly about how they cope with the illness.

There hasn't been any psychology research about the experience of OCD sufferers, but there has been a lot of research about the experience of OCD sufferers' families, psychiatrists etc, which annoys me intensely. That's why I feel I need to do this research. Also, I'm hoping to find out about strategies that people use to cope with OCD because I feel that these might be able to benefit all sufferers.

If you think you could help with my research please email me at krust44@hotmail.co.uk.

Many thanks in advance for your help,

Kirsty.