Story: Anna Geldard (#349)

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4.8 • 873 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In episode 349 I chat with Anna Geldard who has kindly agreed to share her story with us.

We discuss some of her childhood mental health experiences, school anxiety, how OCD affected her work, she details some of her specific OCD experiences, depression, medication, postnatal/postpartum experiences of OCD, getting diagnosed, getting therapy, harm themed OCD, a relapse, hit and run themed OCD, getting therapy again, going inpatient, feeling suicidal, how menopause may have exacerbated some of her mental health symptoms, hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for menopause, and much more. Hope it helps.

Show notes: https://theocdstories.com/episode/anna-349

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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.
0:21.9	And welcome to episode 349 and in this one I got Anna Galdard
0:26.5	who's kindly agreed to share her story with us. In particular we talk about
0:30.0	some of her early mental health childhood experiences, school anxiety, how
0:35.3	OCD affected her work. She details some of her specific OCD experiences.
0:39.8	We discussed depression, medication, post-natal experiences of OCD, getting diagnosed and getting therapy,
0:47.1	harm themed OCD, a relapse, a hit and run themed OCD, getting therapy again, going inpatient, feeling suicidal, how
0:56.0	menopause may have exacerbated some of her mental health symptoms, hormone replacement
1:00.8	therapy for menopause and so much more.
1:03.0	And thank you to NoCD for supporting the podcast.
1:05.7	NoCD offers effective and convenient therapy available in the US and outside the US.
1:10.8	To find out more about NoCD, their therapy plans, if they currently take your
1:14.9	insurance or to download their free app, head to go. Treat My OED.com forward
1:21.1	slash the OCD stories, or the link will be in the episode
1:24.0	description so thank you to Anna for her time I deeply appreciate it and of course
1:28.8	thank you to you guys as always it means a lot that you listen or still listen I appreciate it so without
1:35.0	further do here is Anna.
1:38.8	Thank you it's good to be here yeah thank you Thank you for coming on and as you know I'd love to hear your OCD story
1:46.4	So it's a little as much detail be good to hear that now
1:50.6	Yeah, so I feel like my history is really complicated and I don't know whether maybe everyone feels like that because it is not a simple condition.
2:02.0	But yeah, it's... and not a simple condition.
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