Story: Benjamin Ellis (#410)

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Stuart

Bdd, Health & Fitness, Recovery, Hocd, Cocd, Rocd, Bodydysmorphicdisorder, Ocd, Anxiety, Obsessivecompulsivedisorder, Mental Health, Help, Mentalhealth, Depression, Advice

4.8 • 873 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In episode 410 I chat with Benjamin who has kindly agreed to share his OCD story with us.

We discuss his story, sexual intrusive thoughts, existential themed OCD, going into an eating disorder rehab facility, suicidal thoughts, doing exposure and response prevention therapy (ERP), finding help in mixed martial arts, and much more. Hope it helps.

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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 O. C. Welcome to the O. C. D.
0:20.8	And welcome to episode 410 of the podcast and in this one I got on
0:25.0	Benjamin Ellis who's kindly agreed to share his OCD story with us and in
0:29.6	particular we talk about sexual intrusive thoughts, existential themed OCD, going into an eating disorder rehab facility, suicidal thoughts, doing exposure response prevention therapy, finding help in mixed martial arts and much more.
0:46.1	And thank you to No CD for supporting the podcast.
0:48.8	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
1:06.0	will be in the episode description. Thank you to all of our patrons for
1:09.6	supporting our work 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 so much to Ben for his time in this story.
1:20.4	I really appreciate it. And of course thank you to you guys for listening as
1:24.4	always and without forever do here is Ben. Welcome to the podcast Ben.
1:30.3	Hey thank you so much for having me. Yeah, it's good to have you on.
1:34.0	So I'd love to hear your OCD story in as little as much detail as you want to give.
1:39.0	Yeah, so I guess I'll just start from the beginning kind of the pre-diagnosis childhood.
1:46.3	So I grew up in a rather large family and the oldest of six kids. I have five year or siblings. So kind of just
1:56.8	growing up I I knew I was always like an anxious kid I am I didn't quite know something was there was an underlying issue. I guess I just always had this like hit in my stomach. I always just kind of felt like something was off like looking around with this feeling of guilt everywhere I went and it started to get really bad when I was about age of 16, 17.
2:24.5	It started to get pretty bad.
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