Welcome everybody to Your Anxiety Toolkit.

Today we have Andrew Cohen and Danielle Cohen here.

This is a particularly exciting episode because we have two people with lived experience

and two people who are clinicians who treat OCD.

Literally, it's like a jam power-packed session. So thank you

for both being here. Absolutely. Yeah, so excited to be here. Long-time listener. So I'm just happy to

be a guest. First time guest. Long-time listener, first time. Yes. So I am particularly

interested first in getting a little bit of an understanding, because I only first, I've known you guys for a little bit, but I only heard a bit of your story recently at a recent OCD Southern California event.

Would you be able to share with us a little bit about your lived experience? Danielle, would you go first?

Yeah, absolutely. So I have OCD main theme. I guess it would be categorized as harm. I check a lot of

things to make sure I don't, you know, leave the stove on or leave my car unlocked, those kind of things.

So that nothing bad happens to people. I'd say that's the

main one. And a little smattering of contamination OCD in there as well. And when did that stop for you?

I can probably trace it back to when I was like five, honestly, with like some symmetry OCD. Like I would have to like tense up muscles in like certain

patterns and like just right on both sides for whatever reason and then it just yeah gradually grew

over time and changed themes as it often does in O city for people yeah all the way back yeah

yeah yeah that's a big one Did you say perfectionism? Yeah.

Hmm. Yeah. Yeah. They often kind of coexist along those specific subtypes too, right?

It makes it particularly tricky. Yeah. Yeah. And what about you, Andrew? Can you give us a little bit of an intro on your experience? Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. And what about you, Andrew?

Can you give us a little bit of an intro on your experience?

Yeah, sure.

First off, my OCD anxiety bully monster name is Bidaman.

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