Margaret & Patrick - OCD & Substance Use (#239)

The OCD Stories

Stuart

Bdd, Health & Fitness, Recovery, Hocd, Cocd, Rocd, Bodydysmorphicdisorder, Ocd, Anxiety, Obsessivecompulsivedisorder, Mental Health, Help, Mentalhealth, Depression, Advice

4.8 • 873 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In episode 239 I have Dr Patrick McGrath head of clinical services at NOCD, and Margaret Sisson founder of the not-for-profit Riley’s Wish, which she started to honour the memory of her son Riley, who was a passionate advocate for people with OCD and addiction.

In this episode I chat with Margaret and Patrick about who they are, why they are passionate about helping people with OCD and substance use, how common OCD and substance use is, stigma of substance use, symptoms of addiction, treating addiction along with OCD, what inpatient treatment may look like for OCD and substance use, ideas for when you are afraid to tell your therapist about substance use, harm reduction or abstinence, Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics anonymous, SMART recovery, things to consider with medication, words of hope, words of hope/advice for family members of people affected by this and much much more. Hope it helps.

Show notes: https://theocdstories.com/episode/Margaret-and-Patrick-ocd-and-substance-use-239

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0:00.0	Hey guys and welcome back to episode 239 of the OCD stories.
0:13.6	podcast.
0:15.0	Now in this episode I have two guests.
0:17.3	I have Margaret Sisson, founder of Riley's Wish, which is a charity helping people affected by O. C. D. and Addiction or Substance Use.
0:26.5	And also Dr. Patrick Mcgraf is head of clinical services at O. Coney. So I got them both on because they're both very passionate
0:35.6	about this topic of O. C. D. and substance use disorder or substance use. So now this is something that
0:41.9	affects a lot of people.
0:43.7	So I wanted to do an episode in more depth to cover this in detail.
0:47.5	We of course have touched on it in the past,
0:49.5	but I wanted to honor it by doing another episode.
0:52.0	And both Margaret and Patrick are ideally
0:54.0	placed to address this so I interviewed both of them at the same time so hopefully
0:57.8	enjoy that approach but in it we talk about why they are passionate about helping people affected by
1:04.3	O. C. D. and substance use are. The stigma surrounding substance use
1:10.3	are, the stigma surrounding substance use, symptoms of addiction, treating addiction along with OCD, what inpatient treatment
1:16.6	looks like or may look like for OCD and substance use, what to do when you're afraid to tell your
1:22.2	therapist about substance use, things to consider with medication,
1:25.8	words of hope, advice for the family members and much, much more.
1:30.0	We go into much more detail, so hopefully there's something in there that helps you if you're
1:34.3	affected by this or you know someone who is.
1:37.5	Thank you to our podcast partners, NOCD.
1:39.7	NOCD deliver exposure exposure response prevention sessions with an OCD trained therapist directly inside the
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