You're listening to The O. C.D. Stories podcast, hosted by me, Stuart Ralph.

The O. C. D. Stories is a podcast dedicated to raising awareness and understanding

around obsessive compulsive symptoms. I do this for interviewing inspired therapists,

psychologists and people who have experienced OCD. Welcome to the OCD stories.

And welcome to episode 347 and in this one I interview Chrissy Hodges

now Chrissy's been on the show several times and many of you will be familiar

with her but if you're not Chrissy is a peer support specialist founder of OCD game

Changes and author of the book Pure OCD The Invisible Side of Assessive

Compulsive Disorder. She also won the Hero Award at the ISDF Conference in 2017.

Now in this one we discussed some of the physical symptoms of OCD,

worrying about telling her therapist about the physical symptoms that were manifesting for her.

We discuss the groinal, compulsions around these bodily sensations, disgust and shame,

when checking compulsions make you feel and think you acted on a worry and so much more. So thank you to Chrissy

for coming on and discussing this topic with me. And thank you to No CED

for supporting the podcast. No-C.

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And thank you to you guys as always for listening. I deeply

appreciate it. And without further ado, here is Chrissy. Welcome back to the

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