TOP UK Triumph Over Phobia

To help for phobia, phobias, obsessive compulsive disorder, OCD, anxiety disorders.

Triumph Over Phobia (TOP UK) runs a national network of self-help groups to help people with phobia or obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) to overcome their problems using graded self-exposure. This means learning how to face up to your fears in a very gradual and structured way so that eventually the anxiety should decrease.

Triumph Over Phobia (TOP UK) was started in 1987 with the professional help of Professor I M Marks, MD, FRCPsych of the Institute of Psychiatry, London, by Celia Bonham Christie MBE, MA, who had overcome her fear of flying by following self-exposure instructions from Living with Fear (Marks, I.M., McGraw-Hill).

TOP UK groups are run by trained lay volunteers, most of whom are ex-phobics or ex-OCD sufferers.

A structured self-treatment, self-exposure programme is followed by group members, using Living with Fear as a self-help manual, meeting weekly in a supportive group.

TOP UK’s records show that, working in a group, people improve greatly in an average time of five to six months, despite having, in many cases, suffered from a phobia or OCD for several years.