Hey guys and welcome to episode 77 of the OCD stories

dot com podcast now in this episode I got Harris Goldberg on

Harris is a writer producer and director

he's written films such as Duspigolo Meal Jiggolo and without a

paddle and he wrote the mental health film Numb back in 2007 which featured

actor Matthew Perry and it was great to get him on to talk about mental

health in general but also his OCD story we talk about

OCD growing up kind of this fear of bad things happening, and how he did sort of rituals and

paltions to try and prevent that.

We talked about depersonization, and that's largely what the film, or mainly what the film Numb is about is about

depersonization and his kind of struggle with that and later on we talk about the

episode about how he now believes OCD has fueled that and depersonization was a symptom of the O.C.

and it's only when tackling the O. C.D. that he started to deal with this symptom of depersonization.

We talk about using comedy as a defense mechanism, something I can personally relate to in my own life.

We talk about ERP and Harris gives his tips and advice on how to do ERP successfully.

He talks about leaning into the fear and this is hard to do, but he makes the point of

when you can kind of push further, make yourself more anxious and

obviously not do the compulsion, you kind of get over it much quicker, although it is hard to do sometimes.

We talk about how Hollywood gives a sense of uncertainty

and how this has kind of fueled his OCD in the past.

We talk about how he writes himself into the characters in the films and you can see this

him without a paddle and in numb even though numb wasn't about OCD there are very clear

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