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 460 of the podcast.

And in this one, I chat with Lou. Lou has kindly agreed to share her OCD story with us. In particular,

we talk about harm-themed OCD around her family, self-harm themed OCD, exposure response prevention therapy, her experiences at the OCD camp, creativity, words of hope, and much more.

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episode description.

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So thank you so much to Lou for coming on and sharing her story.

It was great to meet her at the camp a couple years ago,

and it was great to hear her story on this podcast.

And thank you as always to you guys for listening i deeply appreciate it

and about faradou here is lou welcome to the podcast lou hello nice to be here good i nearly called

you louise there that's why um is louis short for louise it is short for you um yeah but i don't, I think the only person that calls me Louise when I'm in trouble was my mum.

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