Story: Charlotte (harm and suicidal themed OCD, journaling, therapy) (#525)
The OCD Stories
Stuart
4.8 • 933 Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In episode 525 I chat with Charlotte who has kindly agreed to share her OCD story with us.
We discuss her story, worrying she was pregnant as a kid, realising it's OCD, experiencing theme switches, harm themed OCD, mental health health anxiety, suicidal themed OCD, getting therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and exposure and response prevention therapy (ERP), acceptance, her joy journal, and much more. Hope it helps.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The OCD Stories podcast, hosted by me, Stuart Ralph. |
| 0:05.5 | The OCD Stories is a podcast dedicated to raising awareness and understanding around obsessive, |
| 0:11.1 | compulsive symptoms. |
| 0:12.8 | I do this for interviewing inspired therapists, psychologists, and people who have experienced OCD. |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome to the OCD Stories. |
| 0:24.8 | And welcome to episode 525 of the podcast. |
| 0:31.0 | And in this one, I chat with Charlotte, who has kindly agreed to share her OCD story with us. And in particular, we talk about worrying she was pregnant as a kid, realizing it's OCD, experiencing theme switches, harm-themed OCD, |
| 0:40.4 | mental health, health anxiety, suicidal themed OCD, getting therapy, acceptance and commitment |
| 0:46.5 | therapy, and exposure and response prevention therapy. We also talk about acceptance, a joy journal, |
| 0:53.0 | and much, much more. |
| 0:54.7 | And thanks to our podcast partners, NoCD. |
| 0:57.6 | If OCD is interfering with your life, NoCD can help. |
| 1:01.6 | They're licensed therapists, specialise in exposure and response prevention therapy, |
| 1:06.3 | the most proven therapy for OCD. |
| 1:08.5 | With no CD, effective treatment that is 100% virtual, is available for children and adults with OCD. With NoCD, effective treatment that is 100% virtual is available for children |
| 1:13.3 | and adults with OCD. And most members can get started within seven days on average. No hassle, |
| 1:19.1 | just real, science-backed help and support between sessions. Begin your journey at nocd.com or |
| 1:25.6 | I'll put the link in the episode description. So thank you so much to |
| 1:29.1 | Charlotte for her time. It was great to hear her story. And of course, thank you to you guys for |
| 1:34.1 | listening as always. How about further ado, here is Charlotte. Welcome to the podcast, Charlotte. |
| 1:40.3 | Hi, thanks so much for having me. Yeah, it's good to have you on. So, yeah, it'd be great to hear your OCD story and you can share that now as little as much detail as you want to give. Okay, so I guess I'll start when I was younger, I think. I think I kind of had OCD tendencies from quite a young age. |
| 2:02.2 | I can remember experiencing quite frightening intrusive thoughts when I was quite little, actually. |
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