Story: Jack (#440)
The OCD Stories
Stuart
4.8 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In episode 440 I chat with Jack who has kindly agreed to share his OCD story with us.
We discuss his OCD story, an early parental loss, he shares themes of harm OCD, sexual orientation OCD, and peadophile themed OCD. Jack talks about substance use to mask the pain, how numbers played a part in his compulsions, being in an abusive relationship, he mentions suicide, attending The OCD Camp, doing Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Exposure and Response Prevention therapy (ERP). Jack discusses secondary spikes, what else helps him, self-compassion and much more. Hope it helps.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The O. C.D. Stories podcast, hosted by me, Stuart Ralph. |
| 0:05.3 | The O. C. D. Stories is a podcast dedicated to raising awareness and understanding |
| 0:10.1 | around obsessive compulsive symptoms. I do this for interviewing inspired therapists, |
| 0:15.2 | psychologists and people who have experienced OCD. Welcome to the OCD stories. |
| 0:21.6 | And welcome to episode 440 of the podcast and in this one I chat with Jack |
| 0:26.8 | who has kindly agreed to share his OCD story with us and in particular we talk |
| 0:31.8 | about an early parental loss. |
| 0:34.0 | He shares themes of harm OCD, sexual orientation OCD and pedophile themed OCD. |
| 0:39.4 | Jack talks about substance use to mask the pain, how numbers played a part in his |
| 0:44.0 | compulsions, being in an abusive relationship. He mentioned suicide, attending |
| 0:49.7 | the OCD camp, doing acceptance of commitment therapy therapy and exposure response prevention therapy. |
| 0:55.6 | Jack discusses secondary spikes, what else helps him, self-compassion and much more. |
| 1:01.4 | And thank you to No-C-D for supporting the podcast. NoCD offers effective |
| 1:05.3 | and convenient therapy available in the US and outside the US. To find out more about |
| 1:10.1 | no CD, their therapy plans, if they currently take your insurance or to download their free app, head to go. |
| 1:17.0 | Treat My OED.com forward slash the OCD stories, or the link will be in the episode description. |
| 1:23.0 | Thank you to all of our patrons for supporting our work. |
| 1:26.0 | To sign up to our Patreon and to check out the other benefits you'll receive as a patron, |
| 1:31.0 | please see the link in the show notes. It was really great to get Jack on. I've known |
| 1:35.4 | Jack for a couple years now. It's always a pleasure to speak with him and he did a really great job sharing his story, |
| 1:42.1 | so I hope you like it and I'm sure it will inspire you. |
| 1:46.0 | And thank you, as always to you guys for listening. It means a lot. |
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