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🗓️ 21 July 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey deserving listeners, it's just me today. I am going to talk about obsessive compulsive disorder or OCD. |
0:07.8 | I have received a number of emails from patrons asking me to talk about OCD, |
0:13.3 | including patron April, patron Sam, patron John, and others. |
0:17.9 | I have an email specifically here from patron Leah. |
0:20.5 | She says, there's a lot of misinformation about |
0:24.1 | O. C. D. out there for example if I tell someone I have O. C. D. They usually say oh I have |
0:29.6 | O. C. D. too and they completely misunderstand how severe |
0:33.0 | OCD can be. I have seen Facebook groups about and on these groups |
0:39.1 | they're making fun of OCD. People will post things saying that OCD is just about lining up pencils in straight lines. As a child, I was so |
0:47.6 | scared of curses in black luck. Or bad, black luck or bad, I don't know, it's a regional term there, black luck. |
0:54.8 | As a child I was so scared of curses and black luck. |
0:57.7 | I would do a sign of the cross on everything. |
1:00.7 | I was afraid that an object would curse me. I would pray to God all day long. |
1:06.0 | I wasn't even able to go into certain shops out of fear I would be cursed. |
1:11.0 | But now I know the reason why I did these rituals was out of not feeling safe in my environment. |
1:18.0 | So this episode is for those patrons because they have been asking me for a really long time |
1:25.5 | to talk about this. Yeah, there is a lot of bad information in our culture about |
1:30.9 | obsessive compulsive disorder. |
1:33.5 | The meaning of OCD has changed |
1:36.1 | from a serious mental disorder |
1:37.7 | to something really quite different and less severe. |
1:42.1 | Today in popular culture, you say oh I'm so |
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