Death, Sex & Money - They Were Managing Their OCD. Then Came The Pandemic.

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🗓️ 22 April 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Listener Diane Davis and author John Green have spent years learning tools to manage their obsessive thoughts and fears of contamination. But COVID-19 is putting all of them to the test.

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0:00.0	And that's the thing about OCD is that you never break with reality.
0:06.0	So there's a part of you that knows always that this is kind of ridiculous, and yet you cannot stop doing it.
0:15.1	There's, you know, the fear part of you that just drives you.
0:22.1	This is death, sex, and money.
0:25.2	Touch me, big boy.
0:27.4	The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.
0:30.8	Same situation.
0:32.0	Pay him off and you're clean.
0:33.5	And need to talk about more.
0:35.3	I'd kill for him.
0:36.6	Kill for a chocolate bar.
0:38.8	I'm Anna Sale.
0:42.1	Hi, Anna and the death, sex, and money team.
0:45.3	A couple of weeks ago, we got a voice memo in our inbox that stuck out to me.
0:49.3	It was from a listener named Diane Davis.
0:52.2	I'm calling from my quarantine here in my house.
0:57.3	Forgive me if you can hear my small children downstairs screaming.
1:00.6	I swear my husband is with them.
1:02.7	Diane's kids are 8, 5, and 2.
1:05.6	They live in New Jersey.
1:07.2	Normally, Diane and her husband both work in Manhattan.
1:10.7	The subject line of Diane's email was OCD in the pandemic.
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