Shai Friedland - OCD in South Africa (#274)
The OCD Stories
Stuart
4.8 • 933 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In episode 274 I interviewed Shai Friendland. Shai is a clinical psychologist in Johannesburg, South Africa. He specialising in the treatment of OCD.
In this episode we talk about his OCD story, contamination worries, what led him to become a psychologist, we talk about OCD in South Africa, increasing advocacy in the country, living with uncertainty, words of hope, and much more more. Hope it helps.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The O. C.D. Stories, |
| 0:02.8 | hosted by me, Stuart Ralph. |
| 0:05.1 | The O. C. D. Stories is a podcast dedicated to raising awareness and |
| 0:09.2 | understanding around obsessive compulsive symptoms. |
| 0:12.1 | I do this for interviewing inspired therapists, |
| 0:15.2 | psychologists and people who have experienced OCD. Welcome to the OCD stories. |
| 0:28.5 | So welcome to episode 274 and in this episode I chat with Shai Friedland. Shai is a clinical psychologist in Johannesburg, South Africa, and he specializes in the treatment of |
| 0:37.0 | OCD. And I got him on to share his OCD story, so he has, is affected by OCD and he's also as part of his journey |
| 0:47.1 | trained to become a clinical psychologist in South Africa so I got him on to talk |
| 0:51.7 | about that too and what OCD in South Africa is like and |
| 0:55.1 | the advocacy etc. So a really nice chat with Shai. I enjoyed this one and hopefully |
| 1:01.3 | you will too. And thanks as always to NOCD for supporting the show and the work that we do. |
| 1:06.1 | NOCD are now operating in Australia as well as UK and USA. So good work to ACD for continuing their expansion and thank you to them for sponsoring the show. |
| 1:17.8 | And if you want to find out more head to go dot treat my OCD.com forward slash the OCD stories or |
| 1:24.4 | click the link in the episode description. |
| 1:27.0 | So thanks as always to you guys for listening to the show. |
| 1:30.2 | I deeply appreciate it and I hope it helps you in some way. |
| 1:33.0 | I about forever do here is shy. |
| 1:36.0 | Welcome to the show, shy. |
| 1:38.0 | Yeah, thanks to it. |
| 1:39.0 | Thanks for having me on. |
| 1:40.0 | I appreciate it. |
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