The OCD Stories

Latest Episodes:

Story: Taylor Glendenning (#319) Mar 06, 2022

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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: https://theocdstories.com/episode/taylor-glendenning-319

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Jonny Say interviews Stuart Ralph on his OCD research (#318) Feb 27, 2022

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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: https://theocdstories.com/episode/stuarts-research-318

Sheryl Paul & Sheva Rajaee: Relationship OCD (#317) Feb 20, 2022

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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 people in love, what it means to be in a romantic relationship, ways of dealing with rOCD, learning to listen to the wise mind over the anxious mind, explaining to friends that it's OCD and not normal relationship concerns, sharing relationship OCD with your partner without hurting their feelings, self-esteem and self-love, and much more. Hope it helps.

Show notes: https://theocdstories.com/episode/sheryl-and-sheva-317

Story: Dr Sophie Suri (#316) Feb 13, 2022

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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 journey, and more. Hope it helps.

Show notes: https://theocdstories.com/episode/story-sophie-316

Story: Annie Anderson (#315) Feb 06, 2022

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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, words of hope, and much more. Hope it helps.

Show notes: https://theocdstories.com/episode/story-annie-315

Robert Fox: An Internal Family Systems (IFS) view of OCD (#314) Jan 30, 2022

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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: https://theocdstories.com/episode/robert-fox-314