Story: Katryna (#391)

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Stuart

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4.8 • 873 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In episode 391 I chat with Katryna who has kindly agreed to share her story with us.

We discuss her OCD story, masking symptoms, self harm, OCD themes including: harm, symmetry, existential, suicidal, relationship. We talk about compulsively tapping and blinking, panic, her dog Oliver who helped her a lot, how taking mind altering substances triggered an OCD theme, a traumatic event (attempted kidnapping) triggering harm OCD, the use of humour in therapy, doing intensive outpatient therapy, NOCD, group therapy, depersonalisation and derealisation, and much more.

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0:00.0	You're listening to The O. C.D. Stories podcast hosted by me, Stuart Ralph.
0:05.3	The O. C. D. Stories is a podcast dedicated to raising awareness and understanding
0:10.1	around obsessive compulsive symptoms. I do this for interviewing inspired therapists,
0:15.2	psychologists and people who have experienced OCD. Welcome to the OCD stories.
0:21.3	And welcome to episode 391 of the podcast and in this one I chat with
0:25.8	Katrina who's kindly agreed to share her story with us. So we discuss her
0:30.5	OCD story in particular masking symptoms, self-harm, OCD themes including
0:37.1	harm, symmetry, existential, suicidal and relationship.
0:41.8	We talk about panic, her dog Oliver who helped her a lot, the use of humor in
0:46.7	therapy, doing intensive outpatient therapy, no CD, depersonisation and derealization and much more.
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