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

And welcome to episode 327 and in this one I chat with Elise

Patronsio about her OCD story so we discuss her OCD, we chat about mental compulsions, compassion, the problem with comparing recovery journeys, learning to manage her workload, we discuss her advocacy brand octopus or spell OCD-O-P-U-S.

Being an advocate, when family don't understand, words of hope and much more.

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So thank you so much to Elise for sharing her story.

I deeply appreciate it.

And thank you to you guys for listening, as always,

it means a lot

about further ado here is at least

welcome to the show at least thank you so much i'm excited to be here

yeah it's good to have you on and So as you know, I'd love to hear your OCD story, so you can go into as little as much detail as you want.

Sure. Um, let's see. All right, starting back back so I'm 25 now my OCD story would begin probably when I was six I started to have tendencies I would say and my first grade teacher told my parents

during a parent teacher conference. She was like Lisa's asking every day if she has a fever.

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