Story: Alexandra Reynolds (#320)
The OCD Stories
Stuart
4.8 • 933 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In episode 320 I chat with Alexandra Reynolds who has kindly agreed to share her OCD story with us.
We discuss her story, themes: contamination, relationship, health and taboo, we talk about her experiences of exposure and response prevention therapy (ERP), we discuss complex trauma (cPTSD) and doing a separate trauma therapy for it, her attachment style, how cPTSD affected her relationships, her attachment style in her relationship and working through this, disassociating in therapy, postpartum OCD, her experience of group therapy, and much more. Hope it helps.
Show notes: https://theocdstories.com/episode/alexandra-reynolds-320
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The O. C.D. Stories podcast hosted by me, Stuart Ralph. |
| 0:05.3 | The O. C. D. Stories is a podcast dedicated to raising awareness and understanding |
| 0:10.1 | around obsessive compulsive symptoms. I do this for interviewing inspired therapists, |
| 0:15.2 | psychologists and people who have experienced OCD. Welcome to the OCD stories. |
| 0:21.9 | And welcome to episode 320 and in this episode I got on Alexander Reynolds to share her |
| 0:28.8 | OCD story with us and in particular we talk about some of her main themes including contamination, relationship, health and taboo themes. |
| 0:38.0 | We talk about doing exposure response prevention therapy. |
| 0:42.0 | She discusses complex trauma or |
| 0:45.2 | C PTSD and what it was like doing a separate trauma therapy. We discuss her |
| 0:50.4 | attachment style how C PTSD or complex trauma affected her relationships. |
| 0:56.0 | She talks about disassociating in therapy. |
| 0:59.0 | We discuss her attachment style in her relationship and working with this and through this. |
| 1:05.9 | She talks about postpartum OCD, her experiences of group therapy and so much more. |
| 1:11.6 | A real wide-reaching episode. I really enjoyed speaking with |
| 1:15.4 | Alexandra. And thank you to NOCD for support in the podcast. NOCD offers |
| 1:19.9 | affordable, effective, and convenient therapy available in the US and outside the US. |
| 1:26.1 | To find out more about an O. C.D. their therapy plans, if they currently take your insurance |
| 1:30.3 | or to download their free app, head over to go dot treat my OCD.com |
| 1:35.1 | forward slash the OCD stories or the link will be in the episode description. |
| 1:39.3 | So thank you to Alexandra for her time and her story and thank you to you guys as always for listening. I deeply appreciate it. |
| 1:47.0 | And without forever ado, here is Alexandra. |
| 1:50.0 | Welcome to the show Alexandra. |
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