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psychologists and people who have experienced OCD. Welcome to the OCD stories.

Hey guys and welcome to episode 301 and in this episode I chat with Lucy who was

kindly agreed to share her story with us. In particular we talk about her

OCD story, developing an eating disorder, going to residential treatment,

using substances, the effects and trauma from abusive relationships, including sexual assault, suicidal themed

O. Cematic O. C. D. Harm-themed O. C. D. Some of her compulsions, getting diagnosed,

her experience of doing exposure response prevention, worrying about

coronavirus and moral scrupulous, obsessing over medication, the powerful moments

in therapy that resonated with her, the trauma of O. C. D. Words I hope and much more.

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episode description. So thank you as always to you guys for listening I deeply

appreciate it. Thank you to Lucy for sharing her story for her time and for being so vulnerable.

In about further ado, here she is.

Welcome to the show Lucy. Thank you so much. It's good to have you here. So as you know, yeah, your story, you know, as little as much detail, I'd love to hear it.

Sure. So with OCD, at the time I didn't know but my first symptoms were about eight years old and it most of the time circled around my mom and worrying about her being okay in the night.

So like it would, I'd be okay during the day and then when it came to nighttime I would have to be sleeping with her to you know I'd wake up

multiple times in the night and just check she's breathing so I had so much anxiety around

like her dying in the middle of the night for whatever reason.

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