Hey guys and welcome to this week's episode of the ACD stories.

podcast. Now this is episode 62 and in this episode I have a chat with Eric

Cooper's now you may remember I interviewed Eric.

I mentioned it in the episode, I can't remember it was early on this

podcast about his story.

He's a professor, not in OCD, in dance.

And he shared an interesting account of his story and you can listen to that

or watch it over on YouTube or iTunes or an Android platform and I'll link to that in the

show notes.

But this reason I got him on again is A, because I like him and B, he sent me a long email close to 3,000 words called the Dama of OcD. Now Dama is a Hindu word I think it can also be a Buddhist word as well.

It has many meanings, often the kind of the law of the universe or the nature of things or the way of things.

If you go to a yoga class or a meditation class, you'll hear it thrown about a lot.

But anyway, he, so he wanted to kind of look at the

dama of OCD the way of OCD and and I like this idea because A it's very

philosophical and I love philosophy especially Eastern philosophy

it's always helped me over the years but I didn't get that on to kind of push that on you

it was more because he, I think it helps sometimes when trying to recover

from anything is to be able to link it to what you understand, how your map of the

well and for Eric his map is very much kind of Buddhism and the religion and the philosophy and that helps him relate and understand

OST and then how to tackle it using E.R.P. but also what he already has and what he's already learned.

So I like that as this could be a good example for you of how you can take whatever your worldview is,

however that's basketball, Christianity, politics,

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