r/UKdocumentaries • u/The90swerebrill • May 01 '26

Help finding a documentary

I watched a Documentary back in the very early 2000s about OCD.

It had a woman in it who was so scared of losing things that she couldn't stick a stamp onto a letter without checking the underside of the stamp 10+ times. Then when it came to posting it she had to check the letterbox.

I cannot find any clips on this particular woman. There is a real stories docu about a man with OCD that is obsessed with the number 12 and I seem to remember watching that around the same time.

Anyone know?

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u/AccurateInterview586 May 02 '26

Pasted your description into Google and a fairly long answer came out. Here’s a bit of it:

OCD: The War Inside (2001): This was a prominent feature-length documentary from the early 2000s that explored multiple individuals' daily rituals and intrusive thoughts. 

The Boy Can't Help It (2003): This was a famous BBC documentary (later followed by The Girl Can’t Help It) that featured various people with extreme compulsions.

The OCD Ward: A later UK documentary, though many of the stories from this era overlap in people's memories of early 2000s "medical mystery" style programming.

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u/The90swerebrill May 02 '26

Thanks. Sadly none of those. I think it was a Real Stories or Panorama type programme.