Hey guys and welcome to episode 154 of the OcD stories.

podcast and in this episode I got Catherine Benfield back on. She did a previous

episode and she talked about her OCD story, she talked about postpartum OCD

and her good work in advocacy. Now I wanted to get her back on because as always I enjoy

talking with Catherine but I wanted to get an update on her story and also she's been doing

a lot of stigma-busting work at the minute she's been doing a lot of stigma busting work at the minute.

She's she shared her story which got published on the BBC news website

you know which would have reached millions of people not not only in the UK but globally.

So that was huge.

She also got an article in the British Journal of Midwifery, where she talked about her experience dealing with midwives and having a CD.

And yeah, so I just wanted to get her on to break that down.

A, what was that like?

Having your story exposed to so many people, but B know why write those why share it and then

we talk about you know what she's learned from this you know tips for owning your

story owning it safely and own it with power you know getting the most impact from it too. She's also been

advocating especially in the UK to get products removed from high street stores that kind of make light of OCD.

So she encouraged TK Max along with others to remove all their OCD products and TK Max did it without any issue so you know good work

TK Max on that and then we talk about a couple others as well and yeah then we talk

about bit of advice for parents of people with OCD or parents who have OCD too.

And yeah, and then just the general questions, but this is a wonderful conversation.

I've already enjoyed it and I think you will too. She's an awesome person.

So without further ado, here is Catherine.

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