Clip from the Documentary – Stories of Hope and Courage – National Anxiety and Depression Awareness Week May 4-10, 2008 – “Stories of Hope and Courage” features the inspiring profiles of individuals who overcame the disability and shame of suffering from anxiety disorder. Marc Summers of Nickelodeon’s “Double Dare” fame is the host of the video. Afflicted with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Marc shares his personal experience and insights on dealing with this difficult condition.
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So true. Its a dark embarrassing secret.My OCD used to be cleaning, counting and symmetry but also hand gestures, touching and obsessing on textures especially hair. Used to spend hours pulling all hairs on my body everyday. I play with my lip, make funny noises, I never feel i can do anything perfect enough and i take so long to do my work! When under extreme stress i pull hair from my head, have morbid thoughts to cut and bleed myself and hv done so. I ritual a lot to avoid relapses
Stories of Hope and Courage – Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
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AND HE HOSTED DOUBLE DARE HOLY SHIT
I’ll bet Marc Summers would be a good host for a new OCD Awareness program, since A&E does have that one Hoarders show about ones who hoard pets, or have too much of a collection of many different things. I’m glad Marc Summers still has a career after Double Dare. Since he nowadays hosts Unwrapped on Food Network. And I love how they tour factories on great foods we love to eat and how they are made. I still feel sorry that Double Dare turned out to be a nightmare for Marc, instead of fun.
Stories of Hope and Courage – Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
he deserves a medal
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This guy has OCD over cleanliness, and he hosted Double Dare? That’s pretty impressive considering all the slime they crawled around in on that show.
Double Dare must’ve been absolute hell for him.
i wish i had OCD, my anxiety manifests itself as full blown panic attacks, extreme agoraphobia, crippling fatigue, thoughts of suicide, lashing out at people i love, its pretty much ruined my life and i wish i were dead. OCD sounds like fun! compared to being a very lonely scared prisoner in your own house
OCD has me on the brink of suicide. As someone previously said, these symptoms are very minor.
Oh, he deserves way more than an Emmy.
he had a cleaness ocd? and he hosted double dare and what would you do they were both messy, I have the disorder doing things over and over running though stuff in my head that should not matter memorys from the past and I try to hit all them quickly without letting my mind wander, so I have good recall of it, problably why I have such a good memory or give that impression, that and trying to do things better the second time if I cant decide the first time. This disorder is really time consuming
Stories of Hope and Courage – Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
i do something with my light a lot i switch it off and on and keep doing this until it feels right didn’t think i had ocd but now i do because all my possesions HAVE to be in order and i freak if they are out of order i am also very obsessive over my belongings when i was 5 i used to sleep with my cd’s and books to “keep them safe” i told myself
Director: MAAARK! WE NEED YOU ON SET IN 5 MINUTES
Mark: *snorts line of cocaine* ILL BE THERE IN 2 RICK
and he hosted double dare????????? GIVE THIS MAN AN EMMY!!!!!
Oh the sensitivity for others, the humanity, the awareness with which you serve and take every step. “Shall I part my hair behind. Do I dare to eat a peach?” T.S Elliot. Your OCD, gosh, durn it, could save will bring so much validation to so many. It could save the environment too. People who suffer this are Christ martyrs. YOUR OCD SURE WILL SAVE THE PLANET! Its not a disease at all, its transfiguration of humankind. If the ignorant will give you credit for suffering for the world
Stories of Hope and Courage – Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
oh….it’s like the thing adrian monk has
. oh i get it 
Case solved : D
Yes, maybe it does bother him more when he’s at home. Good point. In fact, I’ve noticed that when I’m in another town visiting family, sometimes I feel more free from OCD.
maybe it bothers him more when he’s home or something.
Boy, this lady in the video sure got it right.
That’s what I’ve wondered too. How did he host Double Dare. But the mind is so unexplained that one minute, something doesn’t bother you, and then the next minute, it does. Something like that.
THIS GUY HOSTED DOUBLE DARE!!!
I also have ocd. This is a great video, very informative.
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