Story: Carey Marie (magical thinking, BDD, existential OCD) (#464)
The OCD Stories
Stuart
4.8 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In episode 464 I chat with Carey who has kindly agreed to share her OCD story with us.
We discuss her OCD story, magical thinking, body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), fears around medication, feelings of shame, existential OCD, feeling suicidal, going into a psychiatric unit, doing exposure and response prevention therapy (ERP), words of hope, and much more. Hope it helps.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The OCD Stories podcast, hosted by me, Stuart Ralph. |
| 0:05.5 | The OCD Stories is a podcast dedicated to raising awareness and understanding around obsessive, |
| 0:11.1 | compulsive symptoms. I do this for interviewing inspired therapists, psychologists, and people |
| 0:16.8 | who have experienced OCD. Welcome to the OCD stories. And welcome to episode 464 of the podcast, |
| 0:24.8 | and in this one I chat with Carrie, who has kindly agreed to share her OCD story with us. And in |
| 0:29.9 | particular, we talk about magical thinking, body dysmorphic disorder, fears around medication, |
| 0:36.2 | feelings of shame, existential OCD, feeling suicidal, going into |
| 0:41.5 | a psychiatric unit, words of hope, and much, much more. Now, you might hear a cat meow at the start. |
| 0:49.1 | That is her cat that popped up to say hello. And it was really nice to chat with Carrie and hear her story |
| 0:55.4 | and she really shared how windy it could be, but where she's at now, which I think is a really |
| 1:00.3 | hopeful place and message. And thank you to NoCD for supporting the podcast. NoCD offers |
| 1:06.1 | 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, |
| 1:15.3 | or to download their free app, head to go.com. |
| 1:20.1 | or the link will be in the OCD Stories. |
| 1:24.4 | Thank you to all of our patrons for supporting our work. |
| 1:28.9 | To sign up to our Patreon and to check out the other benefits you'll receive as a patron, please see the link in the show |
| 1:33.5 | notes. So thank you to you guys, as always for listening. I deeply appreciate it. And of course, |
| 1:38.6 | thank you to Carrie for sharing her story. And without further ado, here she is. Welcome to the show, |
| 1:43.7 | Carrie. Thank you so much for having me |
| 1:46.7 | here um i know i told you um in our email back and forth that it felt very serendipitous to be here |
| 1:54.1 | um i wrote into the show maybe a year and a half or two years ago so it's's just, it's perfect timing for me to be on now. |
| 2:03.8 | And I'm really glad to be here. Yeah, absolutely. And thank you for coming on. And what you've just |
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