Episode 567: Ben Delmoe, OCD

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.7 • 855 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Our long-time family friend Ben Delmoe (married father of three, active LDS, age 31) joins us to share his story with OCD. Ben starts with how undiagnosed OCD ended his MTC experience causing him to return home. After 13 months, Ben returned and completed his mission pushing through OCD without full understanding of his mental illness. Ben shares several examples of how he coped with OCD—without having the tools (exposure response therapy)—to fully learn how to live with OCD. Ben, who has been married for over 7 years, talks about how he realized a couple of years ago that he needed to fully address his OCD (instead of pushing through) and how that led him on a path of understanding and healing. It’s a brave and remarkable story. And a beautiful love story with his dear wife Anny. If you feel you might have OCD and dealing with it by seeking reassurance, please listen to Ben’s story. It is ERP—not constant reassurance—that is the path to healing and moving forward. And if you are working to help others, please listen to Ben’s story. In the podcast, Ben encourages you to also listen to Noah Walker’s podcast (episode 557). Thank you, Ben, for sharing your story. Respect. It will help so many.

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0:00.0	Welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love hosted by Richard Osler.
0:10.0	I don't talk much about donations because you can't donate, but the thing you can do to help this podcast is go rate it on iTunes, however you want to rate it, or go check out my two books at Amazon. One is listen,
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0:29.5	Latter-day Sake culture. You can check out those books. If you like them, you can leave a review
0:33.7	at Amazon. That connects more with our listeners. The proceeds in both books are donated to a charity.
0:40.4	Everything I do is just a labor of love.
0:43.1	It's part of my baptism covenants to bear more in comfort.
0:46.4	Not perfect at this, but I'm trying to do the best I can.
0:50.4	With that, my guest who's in my home is a longtime family friend, my friend, Ben Delmo.
0:57.0	Welcome to the podcast, Ben.
0:58.5	Thanks so much for having me, Richard.
1:00.4	Just give you a little background on Ben.
1:02.5	He is 31.
1:04.3	He is married.
1:05.3	His wife's name is Annie.
1:06.7	He has three kids.
1:09.2	He works at Wells Fargo.
1:11.8	He's a branch manager in Utah County.
1:13.8	He lives in West Jordan, active member of the LDS church.
1:18.5	I've known Ben through our two oldest kids, Abby and Adam for a long time.
1:23.8	I remember going to Ben's farewell.
1:26.7	If he's 31, that would be like over 10 years ago.
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