You're listening to The OCD Stories podcast, hosted by me, Stuart Ralph.

The OCD Stories is a podcast dedicated to raising awareness and understanding around obsessive,

compulsive symptoms. I do this for interviewing inspired therapists, psychologists, and people

who have experienced OCD. Welcome to the OCD Stories.

And welcome to episode 463 of the podcast.

And in this one, I chat with Johnny Say. Johnny is a UK-based therapist and co-director at the Intracrative Center for OCD Therapy. And in this episode, we discuss an update on Johnny,

what is insight in OCD? How it affects OCD.

The four things Johnny sees in clients with low insight, including when mental compulsions go up,

insight goes down, the intensity of the symptoms, low insight and shame go hand in hand,

and the beliefs that we carry about thoughts and feelings.

We also discuss his words of hope around this and much more.

And thank you to NoCD for supporting the podcast. NoCD offers effective and convenient therapy

available in the US and outside the US. To find out more about no CD, their therapy plans,

if they currently take your insurance,

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or the link will be in the episode description.

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please see the link in the show notes.

So thank you to Johnny for his time on this topic.

I think it's an important topic to cover, so I'm glad we could do it.

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