Hey guys and welcome to episode 185 of the OCD stories at

dot com podcast.

Now this one is slightly different.

I interviewed Lily Bailey who of course I

interviewed twice in the early days of the show.

It's been a while since I chatted to her, but she was in Austin, Texas for the International

O. C.D Foundation Conference. So for those of you who haven't had the podcast or don't know

who Lily is, Lily wrote the book

because we are bad, O. C. D. and a girl lost in thought and she was also at the

I. S. F. Because she was awarded the Illumination ward by the I. S. ISDF for her services in advocacy.

Thanks to the ISDF, they put on an interview discussion so I could interview Lily in front of a live audience and they helped me record it.

So thank you to the I.

And everyone involved in making this recording possible.

I deeply appreciate it and excited to share it of you guys because it's the first time I've done anything like this.

But the it was weird for me doing it in front of a live audience but I think it turned out great

there was lots of audience questions towards the end.

Audience members were asking each other questions as well, so it was a really fluid and

dynamic chat. So towards the last sort of 30 minutes of the podcast are the

audience questions. I have edited out their voices for anonymity as well as because they weren't miked up I couldn't really

hear their questions listening back so I couldn't include them anyway but so you'll

hear me cut in 30 minutes towards the end where I will read what I believe the audience question was.

Apologies if I got it wrong. I couldn't quite hear it listening back.

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