you know if once again you fall into this place where you're beating yourself up for having

a CD or you hate yourself or having a CD that we want to you know gently shift ourselves

back into this place of kindness and you know we don't have to be harsh or mean

with ourselves if we keep falling back into a self-critical place.

Hey guys and welcome to episode 214 of the OCD stories.

dot com podcast.

Now in this episode I interview Mike Heddie.

Mike is a licensed clinical professional counselor and

associate director at the Anxiety and Stress Disorders Institute of Maryland. Mike came on the

show to talk about having OCD and dating.

So this isn't a relationship OCD focused episode,

although there is a relationship OCD question

in it later on.

This is primarily for anyone with OCD C. D. I wanted to do this episode because I don't want people who have O. C. D.

to feel like they're not good enough to date. Or O. C. D. will stop them being in a relationship or can stop them dating.

You know, so I wanted to start this discussion with Mike.

It's a huge topic, but I wanted to get the ball rolling

to kind of put some things out there to offer up some ways to think about dating

when you have OCD if it's been an issue for you I don't assume it has because

it may have not affected dating or relationships in any way and that's great if that's the case

if not hopefully this episode can start to get that ball rolling help you think about ways of

addressing some stuff and working through some stuff if you have found that

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