Alegra Kastens (OCD Specialist)

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2024

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

Alegra Kastens (Books, Looks, and Lobotomies) is a licensed therapist, OCD specialist, and writer. Alegra joins the Armchair Expert to discuss the difference between OCD and OCPD, what having onset OCD is like, and how some compulsive behaviors can be contagious. Alegra and Dax talk about what some of the misinformation is around OCD, what the difference between habitual and obsessive behaviors are, and how OCD is related to other compulsive disorders. Alegra discusses OCD showing up in dreams, the ineffectiveness of thought suppression, and the importance of accepting that you have OCD thoughts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome welcome to arm chair expert experts on expert. I'm Buck Rogers and I'm joined by John Lightyear.
0:06.5	Hi there. Hi, hi Buck. Hey how are you John?
0:10.3	Doing great. Doing good. You ever go by Jack? Because that's a common nickname for Jonathan.
0:15.6	Too presidential. Oh, I guess that makes sense, but I don't know why you would want to be
0:20.7	presidential. You already go by Joe? I do not want to be president.
0:24.2	Well, not president, but presidential.
0:26.2	O'Connor.
0:27.2	Okay.
0:28.2	Today we have Allegra Castons.
0:30.2	She is a licensed therapist and an OCD specialist, a mental health advocate and a writer.
0:36.8	And this is great because as people may remember if they heard the fact check, I had apologized
0:42.2	for perhaps misrepresenting
0:44.1	O. C. D. in general it was recommended we get an expert and Allegra is the
0:49.0	consequence of that recommendation. We learned a lot and it was awesome yes such a good episode she has a
0:57.4	podcast called books looks in lobotomies and that is everywhere you would get your podcast recommend that.
1:05.0	Allegra was just a fountain of information and I learned a ton.
1:09.0	Me too.
1:10.0	So thanks everyone for recommending that we get a specialist.
1:12.0	It was very interesting.
1:14.0	Please enjoy Allegra Castons.
1:17.1	He's an option.
1:18.1	That's a chiric spad.
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