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The OCD Stories

Story: Gen Skeja (#284)

The OCD Stories

Stuart

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8933 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In episode 284 I interviewed Gen Skeja who has kindly agreed to share his story.

I chat with Gen about his story, sexual intrusive thoughts, sexual orientation OCD, moving abroad to avoid the thoughts, finding out about OCD, reading about OCD, interviewing therapists to find a good match, panic attacks, the process of therapy, and much much more.

Show notes: https://theocdstories.com/episode/story-gen-284

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to The O. C.D. Stories podcast hosted by me, Stuart Ralph.

0:05.2

The O. C. D. Stories is a podcast dedicated to raising awareness and understanding

0:10.0

around obsessive compulsive symptoms. I do this for interviewing inspired therapists,

0:15.2

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

0:21.8

So welcome to episode 284 and then this one I interviewed Genskea.

0:27.0

Genskea comes to us from Albania and in this episode he shares his story sexual intrusive thoughts sexual orientation

0:35.4

OCD moving abroad to avoid the thoughts finding out about OCD learning and

0:41.1

reading about OCD interviewing therapists to find a good match for him.

0:45.0

We talk about panic attacks, the process of therapy and much, much more.

0:50.0

And thanks to N. C. D. C. D. A. C. D. A. C.D. are dedicated to creating a better everyday life for people with O. C.

0:57.4

They now operate in the US, UK and Australia.

1:00.6

To find out more, head to go dot treat my OCD.com forward slash the

1:04.6

O. C. I'll click the link in the episode description. And of course thank you to

1:09.1

you guys for listening. I deeply appreciate it and thank you to again for his time and his story and without

1:14.7

for ever ado here he is. Welcome to the show again.

1:18.0

Yeah great to have you here too. Yeah it's good to have you on. As you know, it'd be great to hear your OCD story.

1:25.6

So as little or as much detail, be good to hear that.

1:29.1

Yeah, yeah.

1:31.1

Well, I've had off the deal as far as I can remember,

1:35.0

as long as I can remember, but like three years ago,

1:39.7

four years ago, I had like this massive wheel of images repeating itself. I don't know if you saw the

1:51.2

series of pure role by road, yeah? I think that's how more or less started for me.

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