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 326.

And in this one I chat with Jeff, who was kindly agreed to share his story with us.

And in particular we talk about harm obsessions, post-natal harm obsessions, working through grief for his brother, suicidal themed obsessions, his compulsions and the varying forms they took.

His advocacy work in New Zealand and much, much more.

And thank you to NOCD for support in the podcast.

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OCD stories or the link will be in the episode description. So thank you so much to

Jeff for his time. I appreciated hearing his story and thank you to you guys as always I deeply

appreciate you listening. Without further ado here is Jeff.

Welcome to the show Jeff.

Oh thank you.

It's an honor and a privilege.

Yeah, it's good to have you here.

Yeah, absolutely.

So, you know, I want to hear your OCD story,

so please do share it in as little or as much detail as you want to

share. Yeah cool. So my story begins and I can pick the absolute day it begins was a day at university. I had moved out of town to a different

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