Emily Hemendinger: Executive functioning, and decision making in OCD (#387)
The OCD Stories
Stuart
4.8 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In episode 387 I chat with Emily Hemendinger. Emily is clinical director of the OCD Program at the University of Colorado Health Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic.
We discuss what’s new with her, what is executive functioning, how OCD can effect executive functioning, how impaired executive functioning can impact people’s quality of life, things that can help, decision making, how exposure and response prevention therapy (ERP) comes into play with decision making, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and much more. Hope it helps.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The O. C.D. Stories podcast, hosted by me, Stuart Ralph. |
| 0:05.3 | The O. C. D. Stories is a podcast dedicated to raising awareness and understanding |
| 0:10.1 | around obsessive compulsive symptoms. I do this for interviewing inspired therapists, |
| 0:15.2 | psychologists and people who have experienced OCD. Welcome to the OCD stories. |
| 0:22.2 | And welcome to episode |
| 0:23.4 | three hundred and eighty seven of the podcast and in this one I got back on |
| 0:27.3 | Emily Hemmendinger |
| 0:29.0 | Emily is clinical director of the OCD program at the University of Colorado Health Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic. |
| 0:35.9 | We discuss what's new with her. What is executive functioning? How O. C. D. can affect |
| 0:41.1 | executive functioning. How impaired executive functioning can impact people's |
| 0:45.7 | quality of life, things that can help, decision-making, how exposure and response prevention |
| 0:50.8 | therapy comes into play with decision-making, |
| 0:53.2 | acceptance and commitment therapy and much more. |
| 0:56.1 | And thank you to No-C-D for supporting the podcast. |
| 0:58.8 | No-C-D offers effective and convenient therapy available in the US and outside the US. |
| 1:04.4 | To find out more about an OCD, their therapy plans, if they currently take your insurance, |
| 1:09.0 | or to download their free app, head to go.treat my O OCD.com forward slash the OCD stories or the link |
| 1:16.3 | will be in the episode description. Thank you to all of our patrons for |
| 1:19.8 | supporting our work. This podcast episode is available as a video recording on our |
| 1:24.7 | Patreon. To sign up to our Patreon and to check out the other benefits you'll receive |
| 1:29.2 | as a patron, please see the link in the show notes. So thank you to you guys for listening. |
| 1:34.0 | As always it means a lot to me. |
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