110. The Silent Sufferers of OCD — A Conversation with Paul Peterson

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🗓️ 10 April 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

There is almost certainly someone in your life who is struggling with OCD, and it could be much more severe than you might imagine. OCD is a serious mental illness, and it’s very common for OCD sufferers to experience severe depression and even suicidal thoughts. In a religious setting, it is quite common for OCD to manifest in extreme and very unhealthy scrupulosity.

In a previous Faith Matters podcast episode, podcast host Tim Chaves shared some of his own very painful struggles with OCD and scrupulosity. We were amazed by how many people reached out to us to share their own experiences with OCD. Some had been diagnosed and knew what to call it, but others hadn’t replied that what they were suffering from during their lifetime was OCD. Latter-day Saints often start by explaining its symptoms in religious language, or looking only to religious solutions to solve it.

This week, we share a truly illuminating conversation we recorded with Paul Peterson, CEO of the OCD and Anxiety Treatment Center.

If you know someone who may be suffering from OCD, please feel free to share this episode with them. We want to spread as widely as possible any information that can lead to diagnosis and treatment.

This is part of an ongoing conversation Faith Matters is sponsoring about mental health challenges faced by so many of our brothers and sisters, friends, and family members.

Find an OCD therapist:

https://iocdf.org/find-help/

The OCD and Anxiety Treatment Center (Paul’s organization):

https://www.theocdandanxietytreatmentcenter.com/

Single Saints Summit:

https://ss.leadingsaints.org/single-saints-registration

Mentally Healthy Saints Summit:

https://mhs.leadingsaints.org/mental-health-landing48113181

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0:28.8	Hey everybody, this is Opera Chavez from Faith Matters.
0:31.4	For today's episode, we're releasing a conversation that we recorded in collaboration with Kurt
0:35.1	Frankham from Leading Saints.
0:36.7	Our guest was Paul Peterson, the CEO of the OCD and Anxiety Treatment Center.
0:40.7	When we released episode 65 on OCD in script velocity with Bonnie Young about a year ago,
0:45.1	we were astonished at the number of people that reached out to us to share their own experiences
0:48.3	with OCD.
0:49.6	Some had been diagnosed and knew what to call it, but others related their own experiences
0:53.4	without ever having understood that what they were suffering from was OCD.
0:57.2	Saturday Saints often start by explaining its symptoms in religious language or looking
1:00.5	only to religious solutions to solve it.
1:03.0	Chances are there is certainly someone in your life who is struggling with OCD, and it
1:06.4	could be much more severe than you might have imagined based on the depictions of OCD in
1:09.5	the media.
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