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.

Welcome to episode 311.

And in this one I got back on Dr. Sam Greenblatt.

Sam is a licensed clinical psychologist.

And in this particular episode, we discuss two main topics,

cancel culture and how this plays into O. C.D. worries

and the overt utilization of pornography

as a way to cope with O. C We talk about a recent setback in his own OCD

and the learnings he got from it. I found this particularly interesting. We then discuss the fear of being cancelled,

cancel culture more generally,

how the worry of cancel culture started with the Me Too movement,

how some people's OCD has latched to this, using exposure and response prevention therapy for

this particular worry or obsession. We then discuss the importance of focusing on the uncertainty

and not the themes, and we discuss in some detail pornography or the

over-utilization of pornography as a way to cope with OCD.

So I really enjoyed this chat two important topics and I think there's something in there

that would be useful for everyone definitely with a start about Sam's own

OCD journey and what he's learned from it and thanks as always to NOCD for supporting the work that I do.

NOCD offers affordable, effective, convenient therapy available in the US and outside the US.

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