You're listening to The O. C.D do this for interviewing inspired therapists,

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

And welcome to episode 329 and in this one I interview Maya

Taddros and Maya has kindly agreed to share her story with us. And in particular

we talk about being in residential treatment, her experiences of exposure and response prevention therapy,

managing OCD alongside studying, living by her values, we talk about perfectionism,

OCD symptoms change in form,

her well-being priorities,

getting an ADHD diagnosis later in life,

her experience of ADHD and how OCD masked it for her, and much, much more.

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description. And of course thank you as always to you guys for listening. I deeply appreciate it.

And without further do, here is Maya.

Welcome to the show, Maya.

Thank you so much for having me.

Yeah, it's wonderful to have you on.

And as you know, I want to hear your OCD story and you can share that in as little or as much detail as you want to give.

Okay, yeah, so I've always been an anxious child, but around the time I turned 14, the summer

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