Jack Pridmore on the BBC Documentary Extreme OCD Camp, and Recovery
The OCD Stories
Stuart
4.8 • 933 Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2016
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
In episode 8 of The OCD Stories podcast I interviewed Jack Pridmore. Jack was in the 2013 BBC documentary 'Extreme OCD Camp'. Jack is now focusing on getting his degree, and raising awareness for OCD.
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Show notes:
Jack's OCD story (3:10)
Jack on contamination OCD and unplanned exposures (8:35)
Living alone and living with others (11:00)
Jack on ERP, therapy and group therapy for addiction (12:10)
The benefits of group therapy for OCD (13:30)
Jack on his attitude going into the 'extreme OCD camp' (17:15)
How group therapy removes the need to hide your OCD (18:20)
Jack on further OCD treatments and ACT (22:45)
Jack on Peter Weiss and Travis Osborne's compassionate approach to therapy (30:00)
How Jack got on the documentary, and his thoughts on the TV show Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners (33:50)
Doing ERP while been filmed (40:35)
Doing therapy in nature (48:25)
Jack's tips for doing ERP successfully (51:50)
Jack's favourite moment from the trip (56:15)
Jack's 2015 charity adventure (58:45)
Jack's 2016 charity walk - I walked a mile in my shoes (1:11:00)
What just would say if he met someone with OCD (1:14:20)
What Jack would have on a billboard (1:15:00)
Jack's future plans (1:16:00)
Find out more about Jack:
Jack's Twitter - @JackJPridmore
@ididmymile on Twitter
Resources:
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Stuart and The OCD Stories team
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys and welcome to episode 8 of the OCD stories |
| 0:03.6 | dot com podcast now in this episode I interviewed |
| 0:07.2 | Jack Pridmore Jack was on the BBC documentary |
| 0:11.6 | Extreme OCD Camp. |
| 0:14.1 | Now I really like Jack's Story in the documentary. |
| 0:17.3 | I found it really compelling, so I wanted to get him on the podcast |
| 0:20.6 | and he didn't let me down or you guys he gives some incredible |
| 0:24.2 | incredible advice for fellow sufferers generally a really nice guy I enjoyed my time |
| 0:30.2 | chatting with him you're gonna learn a lot from him. He's also doing some |
| 0:35.2 | O. C. D. Awareness charity campaigns starting in the next week or so and I'll have all |
| 0:40.6 | the details in the show notes. so support him if you can. |
| 0:44.0 | I hope you enjoy this episode please let me and Jack know what you think. |
| 0:48.6 | Hope it house. |
| 0:50.6 | Today's guest is Jack Pridmore. Jack is an ex-inter-playing footballer, a PPE student and OCD campaigner. |
| 0:58.0 | In 2013, he was on the BBC documentary Extreme OCD Camp and in 2015 he raised money and |
| 1:05.2 | OCD awareness by running and cycling every county in England or state I |
| 1:10.7 | guess if you're in America. Welcome to the ACD stories podcast Jack. |
| 1:15.0 | Hello mate, thanks very much for having me. |
| 1:17.0 | Yeah nice good to have you on as we were discussing before you know I liked, I did enjoy the |
| 1:21.0 | documentary and yeah excited to hear |
| 1:24.5 | I'm glad response to some of the questions and I know documentary obviously helped a lot of people |
| 1:29.2 | the fact it's still you know growing it's on YouTube as well now and like the hits are going up all the time. |
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