186: What if you were consumed by a preposterous phobia?

This Is Actually Happening

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True Crime, Tiah, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6 • 9.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

“I cannot get over the fact that this actually happened. It felt strangely prophetic.”

Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits

Episode Summary: Growing up with an unreliable mother, a woman develops severe OCD with multiple phobias, until she must confront the most improbable scenario

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Content/Trigger Warnings: OCD, obsessive thoughts, health anxiety, cancer, explicit language

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Transcript

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0:00.0	This is actually happening features real experiences that often include traumatic events.
0:04.2	Please consult the show notes for specific content warnings on each episode
0:07.6	and for more information about support services.
0:18.4	I cannot get over the fact that this actually happened.
0:22.8	It felt strangely prophetic, like the actual phobia that's so obscure
0:29.6	and so exotic is so difficult for me to understand how this actually happened.
0:44.4	From laundry, I'm Whit Missaldine. You are listening to this is actually happening.
0:50.1	Episode 186
1:02.8	What if you were consumed by a preposterous phobia?
1:10.2	Hey, prime members. You can listen to this is actually happening.
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1:18.0	Hi there, laundry listeners. Hannah and Sruti here from TrueCram Podcast Redhanded.
1:22.8	Your favourite podcast redhanded. We just wanted to say how excited we are to be included
1:26.7	in Amazon Music and Wondries Best Podcasts of the Year as chosen by their listeners.
1:32.0	Which is you. So thank you so much to everyone who listened to us voted for us
1:36.0	or the things you do for us. Any of you out there who haven't checked out red handed,
1:40.5	what are you doing? What are you waiting for? It's a weekly show where we deep dive into the most
1:44.6	talked about cases like the Delphi mergers and also those you might never have heard of
1:49.2	like the Nathari child sacrifices in Delhi. Go listen to Redhanded right now on Amazon Music
1:55.3	or wherever you get your podcasts.
2:03.3	I was born in the early 70s to parents who did not last for very long. I think they got divorced
2:16.2	by the time I was a year or two old. Their marriage was fully ill conceived from the get-go.
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