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Each year offers opportunities to raise awareness about BDD and OCD—the 1 Million Steps 4 OCD Awareness Walk, the Annual OCD Conference, and OCD Awareness Week. Each involvement makes publicly visible these invisible brain disorders that cripple the lives of sufferers, their families, and friends. Collectively as a society, we are as healthy as the hardest hit of our members, so we’ve got work to do. To remove the stigma of brain disorders and to help cure them, we invite you to get involved: become a member of the International OCD Foundation, be an OCDvocate, volunteer, organize/attend a fundraising event, or make a donation.
Annual 1 Million Steps 4 OCD Awareness Walk
The 1 Million Steps 4 OCD Awareness Walk was created in 2013, the year after my pilgrimage from Cheyney, PA to Boston, MA in memory of Nathaniel, a 525-mile journey by foot. Like the original, this annual walk event builds community and raises awareness, funds, and hope. This year, we want to see how many million steps we can walk for OCD awareness together.
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Where: Christian Herter Park, Boston
When: Saturday, June 1, 2024
Registration, music, lawn games & exhibits: 9:00am
Welcome & Grand Marshall Remarks: 10:30am
Ribbon cutting & Walk: 10:45am
Food trucks, lunch, raffle & closing ceremony: 11:30-1:00pm
Category Archives: 2012 Walk
June 20, 2012
The Impact of the Walk Continues A friend and former colleague of Judy’s, Brennan Barnard, wrote a beautiful reflection on his time walking with me in early June towards the end of the walk. It appeared in the New Hampshire Concord Monitor … Continue reading
June 15, 2012 — Where to turn for help?
Resources Many people have contacted us during and after the walk to ask how they can get help for their own struggles with BDD, or for a family member. Below are the places we have found in our search for … Continue reading
June 10, 2012 — Home at last!
Post Camino Wind Down After all the excitement, Carrie has settled into her new apartment in Boston, and Denis and Judy are both finally at home. The house feels very big and very quiet. Having pet the cats and bunny, … Continue reading
June 9, 2012
More to Come! Webmaster’s note: Denis is hobnobbing with high school classmates in New York this weekend (he drove the car, which must have felt odd) at a long anticipated reunion at his old boarding school; hence, no blog today, … Continue reading
June 7, 2012 — Part two — The Rally (Total miles: 552)
Rally Remarks (Watch the Video footage here) A big thank you goes to many different people and organizations. I’m somewhat at a loss as to where to start. Let me begin with the founders of the feast of the Camino … Continue reading