Story: Micah Howe (#293)
The OCD Stories
Stuart
4.8 • 933 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
In episode 293 I interviewed Micah Howe who has kindly agreed to share his story with us.
I chat with Micah about his OCD story, growing up as an evangelical Christian, his early memories of anxiety, fears of perfection, worries of offending people, how OCD impacted his faith, hoarding behaviours, scrupulosity, health anxiety, the process of getting therapy, advocacy, medication, setting up an IOCDF affiliate in IOWA, words of hope, 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. |
| 0:22.0 | And welcome to episode 293 and in this one I chat with Micah Howe who |
| 0:27.5 | kindly agreed to share his story with us and in it I talk to Micah about his |
| 0:31.8 | Ocd story and, growing up as an evangelical |
| 0:35.7 | Christian, his early memories of anxiety, fears of perfection, worries of offending people, |
| 0:42.1 | how O. CED impacted his faith, hoarding behaviors, scrupulous |
| 0:46.4 | health anxiety, we discuss the process of getting therapy and what that was like for him. |
| 0:51.1 | We talk about his advocacy, medication, setting up an Istee |
| 0:56.0 | F affiliate in Iowa, words of hope and much, much more. Wide-reaching episode, it was really |
| 1:02.0 | great to get Micah's story and his |
| 1:04.0 | perspective and his mindset around it now and how it's changed over the years. |
| 1:08.8 | And thanks always to NOCD for supporting the show. I deeply appreciate it. if you want to find out more about |
| 1:14.4 | an O. C.d. and their therapy services head to go dot treat my O.com |
| 1:19.6 | forward slash the O. C. D. stories or click the link in the episode description. |
| 1:24.0 | So thank you to Micah for his time and to you guys. |
| 1:27.4 | As always, thank you for listening. |
| 1:28.8 | I deeply appreciate it. |
| 1:30.6 | How about for every do? |
| 1:31.8 | Here he is. Welcome to the show Micah. Thanks, great to be here. |
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