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 270. See these stories.

So welcome to episode 272 and in this episode I interview Alka.

Now Alka originally shared her story in episode 102 of the podcast back in 2017.

And she's come back on to give us an update.

And specifically in this episode,

we talk about her experiences of exposure response prevention therapy, group therapy, support groups,

meeting Margot, her therapy buddy, mixing exposure homework with valued activities, stopping asking for

reassurance, how her husband had also suffered and decided to get therapy and

process the 20 years of experiencing a CD in the family. We discuss her peer support

training to become a peer support specialist, stigma and self-stigma, dealing

with a CED during supporting her father through cancer treatment and the

A. C. D. Triggers this caused for her. The ideas of A. C. D. T.

That helped her the most and much, much more. And 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.

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