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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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All Episodes

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Story: Geoff (#326)

The OCD Stories ·

2022/04/24

In episode 326 I chat with Geoff who has kindly agreed to share his OCD story with us. In this episode we discuss his OCD story, harm obsessions, postnatal harm obsessions, working through grief for his brother, suicidal themed OCD worries, his compulsions, his advocacy in New Zealand, and much more. Hope it helps. Show notes: https://theocdstories.com/episode/geoff-326 The podcast is made possible by NOCD. NOCD offers affordable, effective, convenient therapy available in the US and outside the

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42:09

Jessica Serber: Siblings, mindfulness and...

The OCD Stories ·

2022/04/17

In episode 325 I chat with Jessica Serber. Jessica is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist as well as the founder of Mindful CBT California. In this episode we discuss her therapy story, being a sibling of someone with OCD, how she supported her sister, how Jessica brings mindfulness into the therapy room, working with mindfulness sticking points, she shares an ice cube exercise for learning to tolerate discomfort and uncertainty, we discuss self-compassion, self punishment, an exercise for

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36:17

Story: Pamela (#324)

The OCD Stories ·

2022/04/10

In episode 324 I chat with Pamela who has kindly agreed to share her OCD story with us. We discuss her OCD story, stress in childhood, growing up in a religious upbringing, getting a diagnosis, trichotillomania, depression and PTSD, her compulsions and worries, medication and exposure and response prevention therapy (ERP), and much more. Hope it helps. Show notes: https://theocdstories.com/episode/pamela-324 The podcast is made possible by NOCD. NOCD offers affordable, effective, convenient

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53:08

Story: Meredith (#323)

The OCD Stories ·

2022/04/03

In episode 323 I chat with Meredith who has kindly agreed to share her OCD story with us. We discuss her OCD story, sexual orientation theme, medication, the tough time she had going to a general inpatient facility, how OCD symptoms were impacting her relationships, support groups, creating a bespoke support system, exposure and response prevention therapy (ERP), how her family learned not to reassure her when she was compulsively asking, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) for her depression,

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49:34

Dr Clarissa Ong and Dr Michael Twohig - OCD and The...

The OCD Stories ·

2022/03/27

In episode 322 I chat with Dr Clarissa Ong, and Dr Michael Twohig. Clarissa obtained her Ph.D. in Clinical/Counselling Psychology at Utah State University and is currently completing her post-doctoral training at the Center for Anxiety Disorders at Boston University and CBTeam. Michael (Ph.D.) is a licensed psychologist in the state of Utah and a Professor of Psychology at Utah State University, where he co-runs the ACT Research Group (with Dr. Levin). We discuss perfectionism, their new book ‘The

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54:24

Jenna Overbaugh - Postpartum OCD and ERP (#321)

The OCD Stories ·

2022/03/20

In episode 321 I chat with Jenna Overbaugh. Jenna is a therapist who specialises in OCD, and is the clinical marketing director over at NOCD. We discuss Jenna’s OCD story, postpartum OCD, how the US healthcare system could do more to recognise postpartum OCD, how her husband helped her, Jenna shares some of her intrusive thoughts, and some of her exposures (Exposure and Response Prevention - ERP), we discuss what Jenna wants you to know about OCD, finding time for exposures when you also have to

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42:47

Story: Alexandra Reynolds (#320)

The OCD Stories ·

2022/03/13

In episode 320 I chat with Alexandra Reynolds who has kindly agreed to share her OCD story with us. We discuss her story, themes: contamination, relationship, health and taboo, we talk about her experiences of exposure and response prevention therapy (ERP), we discuss complex trauma (cPTSD) and doing a separate trauma therapy for it, her attachment style, how cPTSD affected her relationships, her attachment style in her relationship and working through this, disassociating in therapy, postpartum

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51:20

Story: Taylor Glendenning (#319)

The OCD Stories ·

2022/03/06

In episode 319 I chat with Taylor Glendenning who has kindly agreed to share her OCD story with us. We discuss her story, hit and run themed OCD, her other themes including violence and harm, some of her compulsions, her therapy journey, what’s she learned in therapy, medication, the benefit of going to therapy multiple times a week for her, developing the skill of distress tolerance, words of hope, feeling shame, and much more. Hope it helps. Show notes:

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35:06

Jonny Say interviews Stuart Ralph on his OCD research...

The OCD Stories ·

2022/02/27

In episode 318 therapist Jonny Say interviews Stuart about his OCD research. Stuart's research used data from the University of Roehampton’s ETHOS project. We discuss the motivation for this research, what is humanistic counselling, the research and what was found, what humanistic (and person-centred) counselling can learn from CBT, and what CBT can learn from humanistic counselling, hopes for the research, and much more. Hope it helps. Show notes:

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01:17:28

Sheryl Paul & Sheva Rajaee: Relationship OCD (#317)

The OCD Stories ·

2022/02/20

In episode 317 I chat with Sheryl Paul and Sheva Rajaee. Sheryl is a counselor informed by Jungian depth psychology, and author of the book The wisdom of anxiety. Sheva is a psychotherapist who specializes in the treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and other related anxiety disorders, and author of the book Relationship OCD: A CBT-Based Guide to Move Beyond Obsessive Doubt, Anxiety, and Fear of Commitment in Romantic. We discuss what is love, why settling for a partner is ok, highly sensitive

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53:58

Story: Dr Sophie Suri (#316)

The OCD Stories ·

2022/02/13

In episode 316 I chat with Dr Sophie Suri who has kindly agreed to share her OCD story with us. We discuss her OCD story, trauma from the loss of her parents, health and harm themes, starting therapy, her experience of trauma, starting to see triggers as opportunities to practice her therapy skills, Sophie shares some of the most helpful strategies she learned in therapy, her future research, and the book she’s writing, finding her purpose and why, we discuss intuition, what else helped her in her

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01:07:12

Story: Annie Anderson (#315)

The OCD Stories ·

2022/02/06

In episode 315 I chat with Annie Anderson who has kindly agreed to share her OCD story with us. We discuss her OCD story, relationship OCD, we discuss her religion (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) and how this played into her OCD, worries about her partners physical features and whether she felt in love, opening up to get help, a breakthrough she had, existential worries, finding effective therapy, what was helpful for her in therapy, her experience of group therapy over zoom,

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01:01:28

Robert Fox: An Internal Family Systems (IFS) view of...

The OCD Stories ·

2022/01/30

In episode 314 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 his own OCD story, shame, internal family systems therapy, we discuss the idea of parts of ourselves, OCD as a protective part of us which may be possibly protecting exiled parts of us, what are exiled parts, he gives examples of IFS in action, we discuss anger, self-compassion, and much more. Hope it helps. Show notes:

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55:21

Dr David Burns: Exposure, and the hidden emotion...

The OCD Stories ·

2022/01/23

In episode 313 I chat with Dr David Burns. David is a psychiatrist, and is currently Adjunct Clinical Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He is the author of the best-selling book, Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, as well as many other books, including the more recent book Feeling Great. David also developed the therapy TEAM-CBT. We discuss his therapy story, his own journey with anxiety, he tells plenty of stories to illustrate

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01:01:07

Dr Steven Phillipson: Character Indictment OCD (#312)

The OCD Stories ·

2022/01/16

In episode 312 I chat with Dr Steven Phillipson. Steven is a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for OCD. Steven is the Clinical Director at the Center for Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy in New York. We discuss what is character indictment, the varied emotions behind OCD, confessing as a common compulsion of this theme, a different way to look at the concept of being a good or bad person, feeling like you don’t deserve nice things, what the brains

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43:23

Story: Sam (#310)

The OCD Stories ·

2022/01/02

In episode 310 I chat with Sam who has kindly agreed to share her story with us. We discuss her story, a sexual assault that came before the OCD, worrying about getting an STI, pedophile themed OCD (pOCD), her compulsions, doing exposure and response prevention therapy (ERP), medication and self stigma, what else helps her, where she’s at now, and much more. Hope it helps. Show notes: https://theocdstories.com/episode/story-sam-310 The podcast is made possible by NOCD. NOCD offers affordable,

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49:19

Emily Hemendinger - Cognitive flexibility for OCD,...

The OCD Stories ·

2021/12/26

In episode 309 I chat with Emily Hemendinger. Emily is a lead OCD therapist at the University of Colorado Health Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic. We discuss her therapy story and mental health story including OCD and an eating disorder, cognitive flexibility, cognitive remediation therapy, working on perfectionism, social anxiety, social media and tips for the mindful use of it, and much more. Hope it helps. Show notes: https://theocdstories.com/episode/emily-hemendinger-309 The podcast is made

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52:56

Story: Angel Brown (#308)

The OCD Stories ·

2021/12/19

In episode 308 I chat with Angel Brown who has kindly agreed to share her story with us. We discuss her story, harm intrusive thoughts, panic attacks, health anxiety, her compulsions, fear of going crazy, doing exposure and response prevention (ERP), helping her family understand how to support her, words of hope, and much more. Hope it helps. Show notes: https://theocdstories.com/episode/story-angel-308 The podcast is made possible by NOCD. NOCD offers affordable, effective, convenient therapy

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57:08

Eva Surawy Stepney - Guilty obsessions, and the...

The OCD Stories ·

2021/12/12

In episode 307 I chat with Eva Surawy Stepney. Eva is a research student studying for her PhD at the University of Sheffield. Her thesis title is, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and the foundations of ‘evidence-based’ practice in British Psychology, 1948-1990. In this episode we discuss who she is and her PhD research, her article 'guilty obsessions', the history of OCD, the history of psychoanalysis and the development of other psychotherapies such as ERP, the importance of Sigmund Freud to

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