Kat Nicole on beating, and learning to live after OCD
The OCD Stories
Stuart
4.8 • 933 Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2016
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Show notes:
Kat's OCD Story (1:50)
Mark Freeman's air mattress effect (3:45)
Getting diagnosed (4:05)
Making intrusive thoughts worse (5:05)
Separating yourself from the thought (6:35)
Using script exposure for recovery (7:55)
Recording script exposure and playing it back (10:25)
How Pure O lead to other types of OCD? (12:00)
Struggling with Prayer (13:00)
Advice and strategies for praying without OCD (13:40)
Dealing with physical compulsions (15:00)
Using "Well, maybe it is" for acceptance (17:40)
Advice for opening up about sexual obsessions to your therapist (17:35)
How faith has helped recovery (22:35)
How the church has helped in recovery (25:10)
Opening up about OCD to inspire others (28:40)
Number 1 tip for beating OCD - "Accept your thoughts" (34:00)
Future plans (35:10)
Final words of wisdom (38:30)
What Kat would want written on a billboard for the world to see (40:55)
How to find out more about Kat (42:15)
Find out more about Kat:
YouTube channel - Shalom Aleichem
Blog - Do An Exposure
Tumblr - Do An Exposure
Twitter - @Thekatway
Snapchat - @Thekatway
Kat's OCD Story on The OCD Stories
Resources mentioned:
Mark Freeman on ACT and OCD recovery
Brene Brown Ted Talks on Vulnerability and Shame
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Stuart and The OCD Stories team
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to episode three of the OCD stories.com podcast. In today's episode I have Caitlin |
| 0:08.1 | Nicole. Caitlin is quite a big you now in the OCD space. |
| 0:14.0 | Her videos are brilliant. |
| 0:15.5 | She puts a lot of thought into them. |
| 0:17.0 | She helps a lot of people. |
| 0:18.5 | I'm sure quite a few of you know of her. |
| 0:21.0 | She also wrote her story recently for the |
| 0:23.4 | Oc2 stories.com there'd be a link in the show notes so you can |
| 0:26.8 | check that out. She's only 19. She's unbelievably |
| 0:31.4 | knowledgeable for her age. She knows a lot. It was great to talk with her. |
| 0:36.0 | She shares many great tips around accepting thoughts around religious OCD, around harmasty, Dealing with Intrusive Forts. |
| 0:45.0 | So yeah, if you, everyone of all ages should be able to get something from her. |
| 0:51.0 | Also if you're kind of at that high school college age, hopefully you'll be |
| 0:55.4 | able to really relate to her and take a lot of advice off her. I hope you enjoy. |
| 1:01.2 | So my guest today is Kat Nicole. Kat is a student with a passion for |
| 1:05.0 | helping people who have OCD. She does so for her YouTube channel, |
| 1:08.7 | WordPress blog and various social media outlets. It is her dream to raise awareness of mental illness through |
| 1:13.9 | public speaking and publish a book or two. She's currently studying psychology so |
| 1:18.6 | she can someday directly help those who suffer from mental illness. Welcome to the |
| 1:23.4 | O. CED stories podcast, Cat. Thank you. Thank you for having me. It's a it's a |
| 1:29.2 | pleasure to have you on as we were talking before. You saw that your YouTube stuff probably a few months ago now but I found it really |
| 1:38.8 | inspiring how honest you were and yeah and just direct I think I think that's really needed. So yeah, it's a pleasure to have you on. |
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