You're listening to The O. C.D do this for interviewing inspired therapists,

psychologists and people who have experienced OCD. Welcome to the OCD stories.

And welcome to episode 354 and in this one I got on Chris who kindly agreed to share his story with us and in We talk about depression, how seeing a therapist that didn't understand

a CD triggered his a CD, panic attacks, not being able to get a question out of

his mind, seeing an old therapist again who noticed it was OCD, sexual orientation OCD,

exposure response prevention therapy, rumination, the inner critic, what helped him,

acceptance and commitment therapy, compassion and much, much more.

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So thank you to Chris for sharing his story. I appreciate it.

And of course thank you to you guys as always it means a lot.

And by our probably do here is Chris.

Welcome to the show Chris.

It's good to have you here.

So as you know I like to hear people's OCD stories so you know you can share yours now and as little as much detail as you want to give

Yeah, of course so

My have well I think looking back when I was a kid after having my actual

OZ diagnosis I started to notice things in my childhood that kind of made more sense after getting that diagnosis.

Just lots of worries about like health concerns and a lot of stuff that didn't make sense or worries of things that were well out of my control,

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