You're listening to The O. C.D do this for interviewing inspired therapists,

psychologists and people who have experienced OCD. Welcome to the OCD stories.

And welcome to episode 355 and in this one I got on

psychotherapist Josh Fletcher. You may also know by anxiety Josh on

Instagram. It was great to finally meet him in person a few weeks ago and get him on the show and share his kind of knowledge and wisdom with you guys.

So in particular, we discuss his therapy story and his mental health journey including

O. C. We talk about what is anxiety, adrenaline and cortisol, panic attacks,

having willful tolerance, meerkcat mode, O. Cebu Intrusive Forts, and so much more.

Josh does a really good job of going into the science of it all and the evolutionary view of of anxiety and breaking that down so I think

you'll find it interesting. And thank you to No CD for supporting the podcast.

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episode description so thank you as always to you guys for listening it means a lot

and thank you to Josh for his time I appreciate it about forever do here he is

welcome to the show Josh thanks having me honest you I've been looking forward to it yeah

it's been good to have you here. I'll see I met you at the OC game changes event in London and we got to catch up and hence you're here now.

So I guess initially,

it would be good to hear your therapy story.

So what got you into being a therapist?

Oh, good question.

I don't in a therapist because for many years of my life growing up I felt I didn't get the right help for my anxiety disorders including OCD.

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