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The OCD Stories

Welcome to The OCD Stories, hosted by Stuart Ralph. The podcast has been heard over 7million times globally. Check out your first episode from our existing hundreds of episodes featuring experts, and people experiencing symptoms just like you today. If you do, you may just feel understood, heard and possibly help you identify your next step in your own personal journey to healing. Disclaimer - this podcast is not a replacement for therapy. Please seek treatment from a licensed mental health

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52:57

Chrissie Hodges: Groinal and other physical symptoms...

The OCD Stories ·

2022/09/18

In episode 347 I interviewed Chrissie Hodges. Chrissie is a Peer Support specialist, founder of OCD Gamechangers, and Author of ‘Pure OCD: The Invisible Side of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder’. Chrissie was awarded the hero award at the 24th IOCDF conference in San Fran. We discuss some of the physical symptoms of OCD, worrying about telling her therapist about the physical symptoms that were manifesting for her, the groinal, compulsions around these bodily sensations, disgust and shame, when

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49:52

Dr Patricia Zurita Ona: Perfectionism and...

The OCD Stories ·

2022/09/11

In episode 346 I chat with Dr Patricia Zurita Ona. Patricia is director of the East Bay Behavior Therapy Center and adjunct professor at the Wright Institute. She is the author of several books including her new book ‘Acceptance and Commitment Skills for Perfectionism and High-Achieving Behaviors: Do Things Your Way, Be Yourself, and Live a Purposeful Life’. We discuss what are perfectionistic, and high achieving behaviours, fears of being a failure and not being good enough, what perfectionism can

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51:43

Dr Sam Greenblatt: In the wake of OCD (Trauma,...

The OCD Stories ·

2022/09/04

In episode 345 I chat with Dr Sam Greenblatt. Sam is a licensed clinical psychologist. We discuss an update on his past relapse, his fire metaphor, processing the trauma of OCD, meta OCD, PTSD and OCD, identity and OCD, the idea of perceived fragility, loss and grief around OCD, figuring out what is normative, and much more. Hope it helps. Show notes: https://theocdstories.com/episode/greenblatt-345 The podcast is made possible by NOCD. NOCD offers effective, convenient therapy available in the

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51:52

Story: Courtney Newman (#344)

The OCD Stories ·

2022/08/28

In episode 344 I chat with Courtney Newman who has kindly agreed to share her story with us. We discuss her story, going to therapy, learning what OCD is, mental compulsions, harm worries around her family, covid related contamination worries, having a clean world and a dirty world, and much more. Hope it helps. Show notes: https://theocdstories.com/episode/courtney-344 The podcast is made possible by NOCD. NOCD offers affordable, effective, convenient therapy available in the US and outside the

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01:01:33

Robert Fox: IFS - Witnessing the positive intent of...

The OCD Stories ·

2022/08/21

In episode 343 I chat with Robert Fox. Rob is a therapist (LMHC) practicing in Woburn, USA. He specialises in internal family systems and EMDR therapy. We discuss what is internal family systems (IFS), the idea of parts of us, feeling feelings, the positive intention of our parts, the idea that OCD is a sign post to something deeper that needs healing or attention, pushing down feelings in childhood, case examples and examples from his own life, caring for the parts of ourselves, expressing and

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57:28

Dr Steven Phillipson: Sleep… the hostage of anxiety...

The OCD Stories ·

2022/08/14

In episode 342 I chat with Dr Steven Phillipson. Steven is a licensed clinical psychologist who specialises in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for OCD. Steven is the Clinical Director at the Center for Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy in New York. We discuss why sleep is the hostage of anxiety, desperation around sleep, what is sleep and the stages of sleep, how sleep medication, alcohol, and benzodiazepines can affect sleep quality, using sleep as avoidance, insomnia, sleep as an independent system,

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44:54

Dr Lynne Drummond: Everything you need to know about...

The OCD Stories ·

2022/08/07

In episode 341 I chat Dr Lynne Drummond. Lynne is an honorary consultant psychiatrist at south west London and St George's NHS Trust, and visiting Professor at the University of Hertfordshire. We discuss her therapy story, her new book “Everything you need to know about OCD”, the stigma around OCD, raising awareness around OCD, a historical view of how OCD has been viewed, working with patients who have struggled with treatment in the past, how Lynne and her team were able to help these patients,

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46:27

Story: Liam Moore (#340)

The OCD Stories ·

2022/07/31

In episode 340 I chat with Liam who has kindly agreed to share his story with us. We discuss his story, pedophile themed OCD (pOCD), violent intrusive thoughts, attending a support group, grief and loss, learning to see OCD not as a bully, his therapy journey and what he learned, setting up his own OCD support group, a suicide attempt, advocating about OCD at his work, and so much more. Hope it helps. Show notes: https://theocdstories.com/episode/liam-340 The podcast is made possible by NOCD. NOCD

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45:28

Dr Heather Sequeira: Trauma and OCD (PTSD, Complex...

The OCD Stories ·

2022/07/24

In episode 339 I chat to Dr Heather Sequeira. Heather is a consultant psychologist specialising in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). We discuss her therapy story, trauma and OCD, what is post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), what is complex or developmental trauma, what’s going on in the brain with trauma, disgust in trauma and OCD, doubt and uncertainty, treating OCD and trauma together, the role of compassion, when the OCD theme directly links to the trauma, focusing on what we want to do now,

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01:04:43

Dr Jordan Levy & Dr Tatyana Mestechkina: What if this...

The OCD Stories ·

2022/07/17

In episode 338 I chat Dr Jordan Levy and Dr Tatyana Mestechkina. Both Jordan and Tatyana are licensed clinical psychologists who treat OCD. We discuss their therapy story, we chat about the thought of what if this is not OCD and other thoughts that get in the way of therapy, such as, What if this time is different? What if I’m doing therapy the wrong way? What if this is the piece of “evidence” that leads my therapist to think this isn’t OCD after all? What if these thoughts are bad, and I’m a bad

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01:08:10

Story: Geoff (#337)

The OCD Stories ·

2022/07/10

In episode 337 I chat with Geoff who has kindly agreed to share his story with us. We discuss his story, depression, spending 20 years with a traditional psychoanalyst who did not help or recognise OCD within him, the red flags of this therapy for OCD, realising that there are different schools or types of therapy, and the trauma caused by this particular therapy relationship for Geoff, eventually finding some more helpful therapists, getting a cancer diagnosis, we discuss ethics in therapy, what’s

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34:19

Lily Bailey: When I See Blue (#336)

The OCD Stories ·

2022/07/03

In episode 336 I chat with Lily Bailey about her new book ‘When I See Blue’. Lily also wrote the book called, ‘Because We Are Bad’. We discuss her new book, Lily reads us a section of chapter 1 from her book, how the main character was inspired by some of Lily’s own story, the themes of OCD the main character Ben experiences, why Lily wrote more back story for Ben including other struggles, we discuss trauma and OCD, what she hopes readers will get from the book, and much more. Hope it helps. Show

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01:10:17

Story: Traci (#335)

The OCD Stories ·

2022/06/26

In episode 335 I chat with Traci who has kindly agreed to share her story with us. We discuss her story, misophonia, perfectionism, religious scrupulosity, starting with therapy, ADHD, sexual intrusive thoughts, unwanted arousal, groinal, needing to get therapy perfect, rumination, and so much more. Hope it helps. Show notes: https://theocdstories.com/episode/traci-335 The podcast is made possible by NOCD. NOCD offers affordable, effective, convenient therapy available in the US and outside the

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50:47

Jonny Say - Self-compassion, and building up...

The OCD Stories ·

2022/06/19

In episode 333 I chat with Jonny Say. Jonny is a UK based psychotherapist. We discuss how he’s doing, Jonny’s mental health and how he practices self-compassion daily, we discuss shame around intrusive thoughts and in doing compulsions, the inner critic, self-compassion and how it can help, building up psychological flexibility skills before exposure and response prevention therapy (ERP), values based exposure, dropping anchor, a compassionate approach to ERP, and much more. Hope it helps. Show

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01:03:43

Dr Roberto Olivardia - ADHD and OCD (#333)

The OCD Stories ·

2022/06/12

In episode 333 I chat with Dr Roberto Olivardia. Roberto is a Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Instructor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School. He also maintains a private psychotherapy practice. We discuss his therapy story, and personal story with ADHD, the school system and ADHD, what ADHD is, the comorbidity of OCD and ADHD together, how ADHD can feed into OCD, common OCD themes he sees with ADHD, how ADHD can undermine therapy for OCD if untreated, shame in ADHD and OCD, making

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54:24

Story: Kim and Jack (#332)

The OCD Stories ·

2022/06/05

In episode 332 I chat with Kim and Jack Vincenty who have kindly agreed to share their story, from the perspective of mother and son. We discuss Jack’s story, Kim’s story as the parent, moral scrupulosity, being surrounded by triggers, going through multiple rounds of exposure and response prevention therapy (ERP), going to Colorado to do his biggest exposure, depression, where Jack’s at now, we discuss their new not-for-profit JACK, spreading ERP in Puerto Rico, words of hope and much more. Hope

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38:51

Art as healing: A live podcast with Catherine...

The OCD Stories ·

2022/06/01

In this special midweek episode of the podcast which was recorded at the OCD in Society event recently. I chat with these 3 OCD advocates and artists about who they are, what their creative expression for OCD is, dealing with imposter syndrome and self doubt, the benefits of creative expression, how art can help spread information about OCD, and much more. Hope it helps. Show notes: https://theocdstories.com/episode/ocd-in-society-live The podcast is made possible by NOCD. NOCD offers affordable,

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49:38

Story: Amanda Arulanandam (#331)

The OCD Stories ·

2022/05/29

In episode 331 I chat with Amanda Arulanandam who has kindly agreed to share her story. We talk about her story, growing up catholic, sexual intrusive thoughts, fears of sinning, seeking help from her priest, some of her compulsions, hitting rock bottom and considering suicide, doing exposure and response prevention therapy (ERP), how her grandmother helped her, her grandmother’s own struggles, what else helps her, and much more. Show notes: https://theocdstories.com/episode/amanda-331 The podcast

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50:18

Dr Amita Jassi: OCD and ASD, and BDD (#330)

The OCD Stories ·

2022/05/22

In episode 330 I chat with Dr Amita Jassi. Amita is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the National and Specialist OCD, BDD and Related Disorder Service for Children and Young People (South London and Maudsley NHS Trust). We discuss her therapy story, adapting OCD therapy for people with ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder), she shares what ASD is, how rigid thinking in ASD can impact treatment, bringing in special interests into therapy, tracking feelings without the use of a 0-10 scale,

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36:13

Story: Maya Tadross (#329)

The OCD Stories ·

2022/05/15

In episode 329 I chat Maya Tadross who has kindly agreed to share her story with us. We discuss her OCD story, being in residential treatment, her experiences of exposure and response prevention therapy (ERP), managing OCD alongside studying, living by her values, we talk about perfectionism, OCD symptoms changing form, her well being priorities, getting an ADHD diagnosis later in life, her experience of ADHD and how OCD masked it for her, and much more. Hope it helps. Show notes:

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