You're listening to The O. C.D. Stories podcast 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.

And welcome to episode 295 and in this one I chat with Jamie Lewis about his

story and we discuss in particular building up the courage to speak to a

doctor we discuss pure osmomatic ocd, relationship ocd, perfectionism,

derealization, working with his therapist Dr Stephen Philipson, who many of you would have heard on the podcast before.

So it was interesting to get Jamie's take on working with Steve and hearing about some of the

concepts that we've heard on the podcast many times before, but from Jamie Jamie the client's perspective. We talk about Steve's

podcast episode the Brain Voice First Gatekeeper. We talk about the

peer support, the concept of irrelevance, words of hope and much more. And thanks always to an

I support the show. I deeply appreciate it. If you want to find out more about an

ICD and their therapy services head to go dot treat my

ocd dot com forward slash the oced stories or click the link in the episode

description so there you have it thank you to Jamie for his time and his story

I deeply appreciate it and of course to you guys as always thank you for listening about forever ado. Here's Jamie.

Welcome to the show Jamie.

Thanks for having missed you.

Yeah, it's good to have you here.

So yeah, it'd be great to hear your OCD story or otherwise.

Okay, well, I've sort of broke our session down into five points and I suppose I want to start by telling my story

...