Hey guys and welcome to episode 194 of the OCD stories

dot-com podcast.

In this episode I chat with Dr Charles Brady

and we got him on to talk about suicidal themed OCD.

And in this episode he goes into lots of detail on this theme, so if you're affected by this particular

theme of OCD, then I hope it helps you. We go into what are the common

compulsions and obsessions within this theme. He details some example

exposures that some of his clients have done, going to advice for

living a rewarding life, what he notices his clients that seem to recover slightly quicker than others,

and much, much more. Thank you to Charles for his time on this one it's a

theme that hasn't been talked about much I hope it sheds some light on it for some of

you and without further ado here he is. On the podcast today I have

Dr Charles Brady. Charles is the director of the O. C. D. An anxiety program at

the Linna Center of Hope Vice President at at OCD Midwest and IOCDF affiliate,

Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience

at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Welcome to the show Charles.

Thank you sir, glad to be aboard.

Yeah, good to have you here. So as you know I always get people's OCD story if they have one or in the case of clinicians it'd be

great to hear your therapy story and then why you got into treating I see these

specifically. Yeah sure I'd be glad to share that. It was kind of by accident. In graduate school, my PhD program, I was pointing myself in a direction of working with folks with severe chronic mental illnesses and I was going to be

a schizophrenia guy.

That's where my research was focused on, family adaptation, a lot of those issues and things were going well until I got my first job at the

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