Peter Weiss On The BBC Documentary Extreme OCD Camp (Ep 7)
The OCD Stories
Stuart
4.8 • 933 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2016
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
In episode 7 of The OCD Stories podcast I interviewed Peter Weiss. Pete is a therapist who works with people who have OCD, ADHD and Autism. He is the founder of Blue Compass Camps, and in 2013 the BBC did a documentary about one of his OCD camps.
Show notes:
- Pete's OCD Story (2:40)
- What Pete thinks about the documentary (12:00)
- What it was like doing therapy in front of a camera (15:30)
- What inspired Pete to help people with OCD and why it's common to have have mental health issues with OCD (19:00)
- Why camping in the wild improves recovery times (26:40)
- How to speak with people are are anxious (35:25)
- The power of "Maybe" (38:00)
- ERP is important, but it is only a tool (43:00)
- The importance of assessing the ERP challenge before you attempt it (47:50)
- How to boost self-esteem for OCD treatment (52:00)
- How to not let anxiety get to you when you are helping someone who is anxious and parenting a child with OCD (1:01:20)
- The challenges facing someone who has OCD and depression. Also Pete's advice (1:06:30)
- The future of OCD Camps (1:09:45)
- Pete's one piece of advice (1:13:40)
- What Pete would have on their billboard (1:17:40)
Find out more about Peter:
Pete's private practice - Seattle Child Therapy
Resources mentioned:
Extreme OCD Camp documentary - Part 1/Part 2
Jeffrey Schwartz - Brain Lock (Amazon UK/Amazon US) & You Are Not Your Brain (Amazon UK/Amazon US)
The CBT article on The Guardian
International OCD Foundation - IOCDF.org
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Stuart and The OCD Stories team
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to episode 7 of the OCD stories |
| 0:03.2 | dot-com podcast. |
| 0:04.6 | Now in this episode I interview Peter Weiss. |
| 0:07.4 | Peter is a therapist based out in Seattle in America. |
| 0:11.2 | He's an exceptionally nice guy. I thoroughly enjoyed this conversation. Now |
| 0:15.0 | Peter became known on a grand scale through his 2013 BBC documentary called |
| 0:22.0 | Extreme OcTV Camp. Now it was here in another therapist |
| 0:25.4 | called Travis Osbourne and what they did was they took six British teenagers to |
| 0:31.0 | young adults out into the wilderness in Seattle and around those areas |
| 0:35.1 | and basically over 10 days help them for E.P and other methods like acceptance |
| 0:41.2 | start to overcome OCD. It's a phenomenal documentary. I'll put links on the |
| 0:45.3 | website to it so you can check that out. It's on YouTube. Now in this conversation with |
| 0:49.3 | Pete we talk about kind of what the documentary makers didn't show, the kind of behind the scenes, maybe some |
| 0:57.1 | exclusives that he's never shared before in an interview. |
| 1:00.9 | I've thoroughly enjoyed it. |
| 1:02.2 | It was interesting to hear, especially having a background |
| 1:04.7 | in media myself, how they went about it. And Pete's opinion and my own as well from watching it |
| 1:10.9 | that the BBC and the documentary team did a great job |
| 1:14.8 | of actually showing what the reality of living with OCD is. Pete also talks |
| 1:21.0 | about and explains some of the methods he used, him and Travis, in that documentary, |
| 1:26.1 | and we just have a general discussion about OCD. I think you're going to love this. |
| 1:30.6 | If you do, please leave review if you can on iTunes like it on YouTube leave |
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