Story: Jack Henderson (OCD, eating disorder, therapy, poetry) (#504)
The OCD Stories
Stuart
4.8 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In episode 504 I chat with Jack who has kindly agreed to share his OCD story with us.
We discuss his OCD story, guilt and shame, diet and exercise as part of OCD, an eating disorder diagnosis, exposure and response prevention therapy (ERP), medication, support groups, being creative, expressing through poetry, the idea of signal vs noise, self compassion, he reads some of his poetry, and much more. Hope it helps.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The OCD Stories podcast, hosted by me, Stuart Ralph. |
| 0:05.5 | The OCD Stories is a podcast dedicated to raising awareness and understanding around obsessive, |
| 0:11.1 | compulsive symptoms. I do this for interviewing inspired therapists, psychologists, and people |
| 0:16.8 | who have experienced OCD. Welcome to the OCD Stories. |
| 0:24.5 | And welcome to episode 504 of the OCD Podcast. And in this one, I chat with Jack, who has kindly agreed to share his OCD story with us. And in |
| 0:31.4 | particular, we talk about guilt and shame, diet and exercise as part of his OCD, and eating disorder |
| 0:37.3 | diagnosis, exposure eating disorder diagnosis, |
| 0:38.6 | Exposure Response Prevention Therapy, |
| 0:40.9 | medication, going to support groups, |
| 0:43.6 | being creative, expressing through poetry, |
| 0:46.6 | the idea of signal versus noise, |
| 0:49.2 | self-compassion, |
| 0:50.5 | he reads us some of his poetry, |
| 0:52.3 | and much more. |
| 0:53.8 | And thanks to our podcast partners in cd if oCD is interfering with your life |
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| 1:18.9 | science-backed help and support between sessions. Begin your journey at nocd.com or I'll put the |
| 1:25.1 | link in the episode description. So thank you so much to Jack for his time and his story. I deeply appreciate it. Of course, thank you to you guys for listening as always. It means a lot. And while for ever ado, here is Jack. Welcome to the podcast, Jack. Thanks, Steve. Yeah, it's good to have you here. So yeah, as you know, I'd love to hear your SD story, |
| 1:46.3 | and you can share that now as little as much detail as you want to give. |
| 1:50.1 | Yeah, so I know looking back that I had OCD since I was around, |
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