You're listening to The O. C.D. Stories,

hosted by me, Stuart Ralph.

The O. C. D. Stories is a podcast dedicated to raising awareness and

understanding around obsessive compulsive symptoms.

I do this for interviewing inspired therapists,

psychologists and people who have experienced OCD. Welcome to the OCD stories. So welcome to episode to episode 280 and in this particular episode I interview

Brian Sullivan about his

OCD story and we cover many topics amongst his story including divorce

bullying, depression, medication, suicidal ideation, working with the wrong therapist, then finding a helpful

therapist, hospitalization and how Brian found that helpful.

What Brian has learned in therapy about O. C. D. and life.

Going back to studying, we talk about asexuality, words of hope, and much, much more.

Thanks as always to N. C. D. for supporting the show and the work that we do.

NOCD are now operating in Australia as well as UK and USA.

So good work to NOCD for continuing their expansion and thank you to them for sponsoring the show.

And if you want to find out more, head to go dot treat my

O.CD.com forward slash the O. C. D. stories or click the link in the episode description. So thank you to you guys as always

for listening. I deeply appreciate it. And without forever ado, here is Brian.

Welcome to the show, Brian.

Steve, thanks so much for having me.

I'm really excited to be here today.

Yeah, that's really good to have you and as you know I want to hear your OCD story and

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