UFC fighter Nathaniel Wood explains ‘living nightmare’ of OCD and anxiety

UFC fighter Nathaniel Wood explains ‘living nightmare’ of having OCD and anxiety  BBC Sport

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00:00I think most people think OCD, I'll keep everything clean, you know, they go, I wish I had OCD.

00:05No, you don't, trust me. It's a living nightmare when you're in that rut.

00:10So I suffer with OCD and anxiety, and if anyone has the similar symptoms, they know it comes in waves.

00:17You know, sometimes you can be sky high, you're absolutely fine, and then you could have a week or a month or whatever period,

00:22what I call a dark cloud day, where you're just anxious, you know, and obviously with OCD, I obsess over things.

00:29So unfortunately, my time just came on fight week, you know, as I flew out, I was suffering with really bad anxiety,

00:36nothing to do with the fight or anything like that. When I have OCD, it doesn't let me move on.

00:41So the whole fight week, didn't care about the fight, I was just thinking about stuff I didn't need to be thinking about and obsessing over it,

00:47and it's very consuming.