‘I remember, at medical school, drunken discussions concerning the small number of class “nutters” in our year of 150 students… I kept quiet, but laughed along with the others. I was convinced that I, too, was doomed to a future as a “nutter”, having developed some kind of “madness” that I was struggling to hide.’

Read more of Ian’s article for the Independent in which he discusses his experience of OCD and how this has informed his work.