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Your Anxiety Toolkit - Anxiety & OCD Strategies for Everyday

Ep. 97: The Emotional Stages of Recovery - Rebuilding Life After OCD (with Chris Trondsen)

Your Anxiety Toolkit - Anxiety & OCD Strategies for Everyday

Kimberley Quinlan, LMFT | Anxiety & OCD Specialist

Self-improvement, Education, Anxietymindfulnessmeditation, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.9802 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Chris Trondsen Talks Rebuilding Life After OCD

Chris Trondsen Interview Rebuilding Life After Obsessive Compulsive Disorder OCD Depression Emotional Stages of Recovery Your Anxiety Toolkit Podcast Kimberley Quinlan

Do you ever wonder what life will look like after OCD Treatment?  If so, this is the podcast episode for you!

We are talking all about the common emotions involved with the recovery process from mental illnesses such as Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Anxiety, and depression in today’s episode of Your Anxiety Toolkit Podcast. Many of you have asked for more episodes about the emotional side of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Anxiety, Depression, Eating Disorders, and Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRB’s), as well as what life is like after mental illness.   

In today’s episode, we talk with Christopher Tronsden on Rebuilding Life After OCD. In this episode, Chris Tronsden talks about his childhood of “confusion” about his symptoms and thoughts and how he was claimed to be a “difficult child.”    Chris Tronsden also talks about how he moved towards isolation after being wrongly diagnosed with other mental illnesses, and resultantly survived a suicide attempt.   Chris shares the emotions he experienced after this suicide attempt and how it led him to finding the correct treatment for OCD (Exposure and Response Prevention) and moving towards Rebuilding life after OCD Treatment. 

What I loved the most about Chris’ story is how beautifully he explains and articulates the process of building up the courage to perform Exposure and Response Prevention and then having to manage the painful experience of anger and loss after his OCD treatment. Chris Trondsen explains how he had to have some difficult conversations with loved ones and himself before he could turn his battle into something that was meaningful.  

Chris ends the podcast episode with a beautiful message of hope for those who are at all stages of treatment and recovery.  His message really does give hope to those who are embarking on the process of rebuilding life after OCD Treatment. 

Thank you, Christopher Trondsen, for a beautiful interview.  

For more information on Chris, visit:

IOCDF SoCal: https://ocdsocal.org/about-us/board-of-directors/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/christrondsen?lang=en

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/christrondsen/?hl=en

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ChrisTrondsen

Email: [email protected]

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Your Anxiety Toolkit episode number 97.

0:11.0

Welcome to Your Anxiety Toolkit.

0:13.0

I'm your host, Kimberly Quinlan.

0:15.0

This podcast is fueled by three main goals.

0:18.0

The first goal is to provide you with some extra tools to

0:21.8

help you manage your anxiety. Second goal, to inspire you. Anxiety doesn't get to decide

0:28.1

how you live your life. And number three, and I leave the best for last, is to provide you

0:33.8

with one big, fat virtual hug, because experiencing anxiety ain't easy. If that sounds good to you,

0:41.4

let's go. Well, welcome back. I am so thrilled to have you with me today on this beautiful,

0:53.5

beautiful day. And it is a beautiful day to do hard

0:57.0

things. I have to keep telling myself that, particularly as we go through tougher times,

1:03.4

and that's a part of our life. So if you're finding that you're having more tougher days

1:09.3

and feeling like you're maybe losing

1:11.9

a little bit of hope, remind yourself that through staying in the discomfort and by leaning

1:18.4

in and holding a safe place for it, you'll actually come out stronger.

1:23.9

Really, you will.

1:24.8

You'll learn that you are stronger than you thought and you'll trust yourself

1:29.1

a little bit more in that process because you held your heart dearly on the way.

1:36.2

I have an incredible interview for you today. You guys, this one was so touching to me.

1:44.8

We both shed many tears and I really felt that this was such an honest account of what recovery looks like

1:54.3

and some of the emotions that you will feel or may feel as you go into recovery. We talked about anger and loss and grief and

2:05.7

hopelessness and all the feelings that may be your feeling. And so if you are feeling that,

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