Welcome back, everybody. Today we have our guest again. So happy to have him back. Dr. Well, Max Masele, Ph.D. I know you don't like me to call you doctor, but thank you for being here. Max is an OCD specialist. We're here to talk about sensory motor OCD. I'm so thrilled to have you.

Thank you for being on again. Yes, I'm so excited for this conversation. We're going to nerd out

on this stuff and I cannot wait. Yeah. It's a topic that isn't talked about much in the OCD

community in my experience. Yeah, yeah, agreed. I mean, this is a topic where

I worked with people that had an OCD for a very long time and people that have treated OCD and they've

never like heard of sensory motor OCD or when it shows up, they don't really understand that that

kind of fits what we think of as OCD. Right. So let's go straight to it. What is sensory motor OCD?

So sensory motor OCD, so it has a couple different names.

It all sort of gets at the same thing.

Like some people call it somatic OCD or sematically focused OCD.

I'll probably refer to it as sensory motor OCD.

It's kind of just like vibes with me more.

But essentially,

any given moment,

there is a ton of different stuff happening within our bodies.

There's different sensations.

There's different bodily processes that most of the time we are totally unaware of.

Right.

For example,

Kimberly right now,

you and I are having this conversation

and in the background, our hearts are beating,

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