Jon Hershfield - When a family member has OCD (Ep88)
The OCD Stories
Stuart
4.8 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2017
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
In episode 88 I interviewed Jon Hershfield. Jon is a pyschotherapist based in Maryland who specialises in the treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder. He is the author of three books “The mindfulness workbook for OCD” and “When a family member has OCD”. This episode is dedicated to supporting and helping family members of those with OCD. To one, support themselves, and two, support their loved ones with OCD more effectively.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys and welcome to episode 88 of the O.C.com |
| 0:13.3 | podcast. |
| 0:14.3 | Now in this episode I interview John Hirschfield. |
| 0:17.4 | John is a therapist and some you may remember if you've been following |
| 0:20.6 | this podcast for a while that I had him on in episode six to talk about |
| 0:24.7 | OcD recovery, his OcD story and many other wonderful things. |
| 0:28.9 | It still remains one of your favorite episode, which is the feedback I get from a lot of you and if you haven't |
| 0:34.4 | checked it out I encourage you to do John shared some great advice on that episode. |
| 0:39.7 | But sort of 82 episodes on now. I wanted to discuss his book, When a Family Member has |
| 0:45.9 | OCD. Now this has been out for a year, year or two now, I think this book has, or yeah, just |
| 0:51.2 | over a year. But I wanted to get him on to talk about his advice for |
| 0:55.8 | family members family members of those of OCD because I don't feel that it gets talked |
| 1:01.7 | about enough we always talk about |
| 1:03.6 | I used to recovery, the people suffering, but you know it's not just a single person. |
| 1:09.1 | We all impact others whether we want to or not unfortunately and I wanted to discuss this book |
| 1:15.6 | to A shed some light on what a family member goes through but also you know give |
| 1:21.3 | them some more advice and support to comfort themselves to cope with it better |
| 1:25.6 | because it can be very stressful seeing your loved one hurting. |
| 1:29.1 | And also, more importantly I guess, find tools and tactics for them that they can implement |
| 1:35.4 | so that they can support you if you have OCD or their loved ones of OCD better |
| 1:41.1 | and not enable them if that's maybe what they do, when to get involved in |
| 1:46.6 | compulsions and when to not, etc. |
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