Hey guys and welcome to episode 152 of the O. C. D.C.

and welcome to episode 152 of the O. C. D.

C.com podcast.

Now in this episode I got on Joe Edge who kindly agreed to share her O.

She shares her mental health journey with O. C.D.

in a very raw, real and inspiring way so I think you're

going to enjoy this we cover loads of grounds and it was great to chat with her and

as always thank you for listening and if you get time please leave a review

It helps us reach more people so I appreciate that and yeah without further ado here is Joe On the podcast today, I have Joe Edge.

Joe has kindly agreed to share her OCD story with us.

Welcome to the show, Joe.

Hi there.

It's good to have you on.

Nice to. Yeah, for people's backgrounds.

You know, I met you at Ashley Curry's picnic in London,

I see picnic, was it must have been two, three months ago now? Yeah September. Yeah so it's good to have you on and obviously I saw you speak at the

the ICT UK conference so yeah that was another great day. Yeah there's been quite a lot of good things happening recently around sort of

of OCD related events. Absolutely. Very positive. Good to hear and hopefully we hear more about that in your story so yeah so in as

little as much detail we could hear your OCD story. My OCD story okay well

I am 38 years old and I suppose I've always had O. C. D. Or I suppose I've always had O. C. D. Or variants of it. I was I was only diagnosed in January 2016 so that's only sort of

of many three years ago. So ever since I was very, very little, I was always really worried, really, really worried about things like being away from my mum, who was my main carer, I suppose. went to work my mom looked after me I could

remember if my mom was just outside talking to a neighbor or just I didn't know putting

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