Hey guys and welcome to episode 140 of the O-City stories.

dot com podcast.

Now in this episode I got on Kevin Partman to share his

O-CED story with us. Kevin won the ICDS Hero Award in 2015 for his work with Run OCD, which was his initiative about advocacy

and raising awareness for OCD.

As part of Run OCD, he to run ping pong tournaments called ping pong for

a cd and if you used to go back and date the ICTF conferences you would have

seen one of those. So in this Kevin shares his

OCD story, his sort of recovery journey, he goes into a lot of detail which was

really good, it was really interesting story. We talk about his kind of biggest epiphany, any

roadblocks, any lifestyle changes. We talk about, you know, parenting while having a CD, advice for parents then we're going to run

i see his initiative to talk about ping pong for a cd and then obviously the general

questions at the end but But Kevin shares so much information in here. It's a long episode, but it's a good one. So I encourage you to listen all the way through. So without forever ado, here is Kevin.

On the podcast today I have Kevin Putman.

Kevin is known for his advocacy work with Run OCD, a grassroots movement motivated to educate support and raise awareness about obsessive compulsive disorder.

As part of this, Kevin ran a ping pong tournament called Pingpong for OCD at the ICD conferences

and other events.

In 2015 he won the Hero Award for the ISDF.

Welcome to the show Kevin.

It was 2015 on it?

It was 2015.

Okay, good.

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