Hey guys and welcome to episode 193 of the O. C.

In this episode I chat with O. C and D.

And in this episode they share their O. C. D.

They share their O. C. D. stories, we unpack those stories, then they go on to talk about their advocacy initiative called a penny for your intrusive thoughts, which you may have come across online.

So without further ado, here they are.

On the podcast today, I have the creators of the Advocacy Initiative,

a penny for your intrusive thoughts, who are referred to as C and D. Welcome to the show guys.

Thanks for having us.

Thank you.

Yeah, it's good to have you on.

Obviously seeing your project for a while now. It's been great to see how it's grown. So we are

going to get into your initiative, but first of all as you guys know I like to hear

people's stories. So whoever wants to go first in as little as much detail?

It'd be good to hear your OCD story.

Yeah, I mean, I can go first, so I'm D and so I first started developing OCD symptoms when I was a

sophomore in high school I think before then I definitely was an anxious kid and

looking back I'm pretty sure I had some symptoms of OCDs, some obsessions and

compulsions, but nothing that really affected my day-to-day life until high school.

And then mine, this story is kind of interesting the way it started. It was sort of overnight. of A lot of my symptoms were similar to pandas, so like having sort of an overnight development of

OCD, but I've been tested and I don't have pandas.

But yeah, I was just like one day. I all of a sudden started becoming really conscious of everything I was touching

Yeah, it was just flipped for you

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