Kimberley Quinlan - OCD and Sex (#238)

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🗓️ 9 August 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In episode 238 I have Kimberley Quinlan. Kimberley is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who treats people with OCD and related disorders, Eating Disorders and Body Focused Repetitive Disorders. She runs her own podcast called Your Anxiety Toolkit. She also runs CBTschool.com.

In this episode I chat with Kim about sex and OCD. I asked her many questions I got from some of the listeners of the show. We talk about when OCD impacts your ability to connect with your partner, sexual intrusive thoughts and anxiety’s impacts on sexual expression, why it may be difficult to enjoy sex, working through intrusive thoughts that interfere with sex, avoidance of sexual intercourse because of obsessions, cognitive distortions around sex, influence of porn, worrying about pregnancy during sex, contamination worries, sexually transmitted disease worries, when sex can be a compulsion, medications possibly affecting sex, letting go of extra expectations of what sex should be like, how to relate and create a better relationship to sexuality, how partners can help, words of hope and much much more. Hope it helps.

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0:00.0	Hey guys I'm welcome to episode 238 of the OcD Stories
0:12.1	podcast.
0:14.0	Now on this episode I got back on
0:16.9	Kimberly Quinlan.
0:18.0	Kimberly has been on the show several times.
0:20.0	Kimberly is a licensed marriage and family therapist who treats O. Cebly O. Cebly is a licensed marriage and family therapist who treats O. C.D.
0:24.4	And I got her on because I wanted to talk to her about sex and O. C. D.
0:30.4	Because I know this is a topic that she is particularly interested in.
0:34.0	So I wanted to get her on to answer your questions, so through my email list I asked if
0:39.7	any of you had questions around the topic of sex and OCD. I got so many questions so what I've
0:45.8	done is merge some of them together because there was a lot of overlap and tried to kind of cover
0:51.0	as many as I could. So Kimberly kind of breaks down and
0:54.9	answer those questions for you guys. So firstly, thank you for asking them. I
0:58.2	really appreciate it. This episode really was built around your questions.
1:02.6	So in it we talk about when OCD impacts your ability to connect with your partner, sexual
1:07.5	intrusive thoughts and anxiety's impact on sexual expression, why it may be difficult to enjoy sex, working through intrusive
1:15.0	thoughts that interfere with sex, avoidance of sexual intercourse because of obsessions, cognitive
1:20.3	distortions around sex, the influence of porn, worrying about pregnancy during cognitive distortions
1:24.0	about pregnancy during sex, contamination worries, sexually transmitted disease worries,
1:29.0	when sex can be a compulsion.
1:31.0	We talk about medications possible effects on sex, letting go of extra expectations of what sex should be like, how to relate and create a better relationship to sexuality, how partners can help, words of hope and much much more. This is a
1:45.8	really wide-reaching episode. Now this topic of sex and ACD is so broad and so big, big is impossible for us to cover it in one
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