You're listening to The O. C.D. Stories podcast hosted by me, Stuart Ralph.

The O. C. D. Stories is a podcast dedicated to raising awareness and understanding

around obsessive compulsive symptoms. I do this for interviewing inspired therapists,

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

Welcome to episode 299 of the podcast.

And in this one I got back on therapist Justin Hughes.

Justin is a licensed professional counselor in Dallas, Texas, and he specializes in CBT for OCD.

And in this, we're going back on to specifically talk about walking faithfully as a Christian while doing

a CD treatment and some of the roadblocks and barriers that some Christians face.

So specifically he breaks down what those barriers are when seeking treatment as a Christian.

He shares some relevant scripture,

why OCD is not a spiritual problem, seeing a therapist regardless of their own faith, the concept of common

grace, uncertainty amongst Christians, doing exposure response prevention therapy without crossing the person's religious

and personal values, dealing with the guilt and shame of having had certain intrusive

thoughts, speaking with family members who are hesitant and much more.

So I think whether you're a Christian or not, I think a lot of this will apply to other faiths

too and generally I think there's a lot of good

OCD conversation in here even if you aren't religious in any way.

But yeah it was in part very philosophical, more of an open discussion, but I enjoyed the conversation and I hope you guys do too.

And thank you as always to NOCD for supporting the show and the work that I do.

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