Helen Razer’s ABC Radio interview with 2006 Australian Idol winner Damien Leith, saw a conversation around his soon to be released novel become a discussion of both Razer and Leith’s own personal experience of obsessive compulsive disorder.

This mutual openness on a much misunderstood illness was a welcome change from standard media treatment of the topic. StigmaWatch contacted ABC radio to commend the handling of the issue and to pass on the warm responses of people in the community who related to the content.