Story: Lou (#267)

The OCD Stories

Stuart

Bdd, Health & Fitness, Recovery, Hocd, Cocd, Rocd, Bodydysmorphicdisorder, Ocd, Anxiety, Obsessivecompulsivedisorder, Mental Health, Help, Mentalhealth, Depression, Advice

4.8 • 873 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In episode 267 I chat with Lou who has kindly agreed to share her story with us.

In this episode I chat with Lou about her story, ruminating, reassurance seeking, not feeling good enough, self medicating at a young age with alcohol and drugs, how the birth of her first child triggered an OCD episode, peadophile themed OCD (pOCD), worries of her and others harming her baby (postpartum OCD/maternal OCD), feeling like a bad person, getting therapy, dealing with anger, discovering Acceptance and Commitment therapy (ACT), eventually deciding to take medication and her experiences, the various triggers around her children, telling her husband something wasn’t feeling right, a fear of upsetting people, the OCD camp, what else helps her with her well being, and much much more. Hope it helps.

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0:00.0	Hey guys and welcome to episode 267 of the OcD stories.
0:03.0	podcast.
0:14.8	As always, thank you so much for listening.
0:17.1	I deeply appreciate it.
0:18.8	And in this story-based episode, I chat with Lou
0:22.2	about her story, which includes ruminating
0:24.7	reassurance seeking not feeling good enough self-modicating a young age with
0:29.3	alcohol and drugs how the birth of her first child triggered an OCD episode,
0:34.0	pedophile-themed OCD, worries of her and others harming her baby,
0:39.0	feeling like a bad person, getting therapy, dealing with anger, discovering acceptance commitment therapy, which she described was very helpful for her personally,
0:48.0	eventually decided to take medication and her
0:54.0	experience,
0:55.0	husband something wasn't feeling quite right,
0:57.0	a fear of upsetting people,
0:59.0	and much, much more, a really wide-reaching episode.
1:02.0	I've known Lou for a while, so it was a real pleasure to get her on and
1:05.4	share her story with you guys. And thanks to NACD for sponsoring the show. I reached out to Stephen Smith,
1:11.6	founder and CEO of NOCD. Stephen wants you to know that
1:15.4	the O-C-D doesn't have to bother you anymore and you can break free from its torturous
1:19.4	grasp so have hope. Effective help from specialist therapists is now available
1:24.7	click the link in the episode description to find out more or head to go dot treat
1:29.3	my OCD.com forward slash the OCD stories and without for ever ado here is Lou on the podcast today I have Lou who is kindly agreed to share her story of us
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