Story: Abi K (#406)

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

🗓️ 5 November 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In episode 406 I chat with Abi who has kindly agreed to share her OCD story with us.

We discuss her story, sexual intrusive thoughts, compulsive prayer, scrupulosity, emetophobia, trichotillomania, an eating disorder, what’s helped her, support from her partner, intimacy and intrusive thoughts, and much more. Hope it helps.

Show notes: https://theocdstories.com/episode/abi-406

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0:00.0	You're listening to The O. C.D do this for interviewing inspired therapists,
0:15.2	psychologists and people who have experienced OCD. Welcome to the OCD stories.
0:21.6	And welcome to episode 406 of the podcast and in this one I chat
0:26.2	with Abbey who was kindly agreed to share her story with us. In particular we talk
0:31.2	about sexual intrusive thoughts, compulsive prayer, scrupulous helped her, support from our partner, intimacy and intrusive thoughts, and much, much more.
0:46.0	And thank you to No CD for supporting the podcast.
0:48.7	No CD offers effective and convenient therapy available in the US and outside the US.
0:54.0	To find out more about an OCD, their therapy plans, if they currently take your insurance,
0:58.6	or to download their free app, head to go. Treat My OCD.com forward slash the OCD stories or the link will be in the
1:06.4	episode description. Thank you to all of our patrons for supporting our work.
1:10.5	To sign up to our patron and to check out the other benefits you'll receive as a patron,
1:15.3	please see the link in the show notes. So thank you to Abby for her time. I deeply
1:19.5	appreciate it and for her sharing our story and of course thank you as always to you guys for
1:24.2	listening it means a lot about for ado here is Abbey
1:28.4	welcome to the podcast Abbey
1:30.5	hello nice to meet yeah it's good to have you on. So as you know, I'd love to hear your
1:37.1	OCD story and you can share that now and as little as much detail as you want to give.
1:42.1	Okay, so my OCD. much details you want to give. Okay.
1:44.0	So my OCD probably started when I was about eight years old.
1:49.2	I have a much better relationship with my parents now, but definitely growing up my father was extremely strict, both physically, emotionally.
1:59.0	And essentially it was always just a push to get better grades to ensure that I wasn't going to go down the wrong path, which understandably I'm very grateful for now because I'm in a good position but there was a lot of yeah it was it was a
2:16.4	there was a lot of violence and a lot of it was just hard for me I grew up in Cardiff I was alone as well, so it was just me and my parents
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