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 344 of the podcast and in this one I interview

Courtney Newham who's kindly agreed to share her story with us and in particular we

talk about going to therapy learning learning what OCD is, mental

compulsions, harm worries around her family, COVID-related contamination

worries, having a clean world and a dirty world weld and so much more.

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episode description so thank you to Courtney for sharing our story it was a pleasure to

talk with her and hear her story and thank you to you guys as always for listening I deeply

appreciate it without further ado here is Courtney welcome to the

podcast Courtney hi nice to be here yeah it's good to have you on so as you know I'd love to hear your story so you can share that now and as

little as much detail. Yeah thank you so I would generally say that my OCD story officially started rather recently.

I was actually only diagnosed about a year ago.

I was 25 at the time. and at that point I had been going to therapy for about a year or two.

I had been experiencing just anxiety and depression. I mean I would generally say that I've always been

a little bit of an anxious person,

but at this point in time, I had moved to a new country recently,

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