Story: Jakob (Panic, derealisation, the fear of ‘going crazy’, existential OCD) (#477)
The OCD Stories
Stuart
4.8 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In episode 477 I chat with Jakob who has kindly agreed to share his OCD story with us.
We discuss his story, panic, derealisation, the fear of ‘going crazy’, existential OCD, his advocacy work, exposure and response prevention therapy (ERP), 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. |
| 0:25.2 | And welcome to episode 477 of the podcast. And in this one, I chat with Jacob, who was kindly agreed to share his OCD story with us. |
| 0:31.1 | And in particular, we talk about panic, de-realization, the fear of going crazy, existential OCD, his advocacy work, exposure and |
| 0:40.0 | response prevention, and much, much more. And thank you to NoCD for supporting the podcast. NoCD offers |
| 0:47.0 | effective and convenient therapy available in the US and outside the US. To find out more about |
| 0:52.4 | no CD, their therapy plans, if they currently take your insurance, |
| 0:56.2 | or to download their free app, head to go.com. |
| 1:00.5 | forward slash the OCD stories, or the link will be in the episode description. |
| 1:05.3 | So thank you to Jacob for his story and his time. |
| 1:07.5 | I deeply appreciate it. |
| 1:09.0 | And of course, thank you to you all for listening. As |
| 1:11.7 | always, it does mean a lot to me. About for ever ado, here is Jacob. Welcome to the podcast, Jacob. |
| 1:19.5 | Hi, thanks for having me. Yeah, it's good to have you on. As you know, I'd love to hear your |
| 1:24.6 | OCD story, and you can do that now on as little as much detail as you want to give. |
| 1:29.8 | Great. |
| 1:31.1 | So I think, like most listeners, or perhaps people who have been on this podcast or those with OCD, |
| 1:40.7 | I think I've always had anxious tendencies. |
| 1:45.2 | And growing up, there were always a few things that made me very nervous when I was a child. |
| 1:53.9 | The sight of a balloon floating away in the sky would send me into a full-blown panic |
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