Hey guys I'm going to episode 191 of the Oced stories.

And in this episode 191 of the Oced stories. So,

in the O.cd Stories.com podcast. Now in this episode I chat with Dr. Josh Botanek.

Josh treats O. C. D. in Atlanta and I wanted to get him on to talk about health anxiety.

So we talk about what is health anxiety, his therapy stories, so what got him into treating

OCD and health anxiety.

We talk about ERP being the gold standard for most anxiety disorders.

I ask him what are some of the common compulsions and obsessions around health anxiety. He gives lots of client examples

and examples of exposure response prevention for health anxiety.

and then we talk about how families can support their loved ones with health anxiety and words of hope

and much, much more.

He goes into so much detail on this topic.

I'm incredibly grateful to him for it I think you're

going to find it interesting and useful so without further ado here is Josh on the

podcast today I'm joined by Dr Josh Spitalnik Josh is a licensed

psychologist owner and clinical director at the anxiety specialist of Atlanta

an outpatient clinic welcome to the podcast Josh. It is a thrill to be here. Thank you still.

It's good to have you on and as you know I always like to get the therapists

whether they have any kind of mental house story of says they want to share it if not just like what got you into treating

ACD and just being a therapist generally. Sure well I think we all have

mental health stories, but specifically for me, I got into this sort of backwards, a bit of a circuitous path to get here.

I didn't do psychology as undergrad. I was actually a criminal

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