Story: Michael (health anxiety, trauma and OCD) (#535)
The OCD Stories
Stuart
4.8 • 933 Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In episode 535 I chat with Michael who has kindly agreed to share his OCD story with us.
We discuss his OCD story, nightmares in childhood, relationship themed OCD, the onset of his OCD, harm themed OCD, getting therapy, experiencing a health condition, medical trauma, health anxiety, balancing real health conditions with health anxiety, trauma and OCD (PTOCD), living life and making choices, doing exposure and response prevention therapy (ERP) for health anxiety in the midst of an actual health issue, self compassion, and much more. Hope it helps.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The OCD Stories podcast, hosted by me, Stuart Ralph. |
| 0:05.5 | The OCD Stories is a podcast dedicated to raising awareness and understanding around obsessive, |
| 0:11.1 | compulsive symptoms. I do this for interviewing inspired therapists, psychologists, and people |
| 0:16.8 | who have experienced OCD. Welcome to the OCD stories. And welcome to episode 535 of the podcast. |
| 0:26.1 | And in this one, I got on Michael, who has kindly agreed to share his OCD story with us. And in particular, |
| 0:32.0 | we talk about nightmares and childhood, relationship-beamed OCD, the onset of his OCD, harm-themed OCD, getting therapy, experiencing a health |
| 0:41.6 | condition, medical trauma, health anxiety, balancing real health conditions with health anxiety, |
| 0:49.9 | trauma and OCD, living life and making choices, doing exposure response prevention therapy |
| 0:55.8 | for health anxiety in the midst of an actual health issue, self-compassion and much more. |
| 1:02.2 | And thanks to our podcast partners in OCD? If OCD is interfering with your life, no CD can help. |
| 1:08.7 | They're licensed therapists, specialise in exposure and response prevention therapy, |
| 1:13.8 | the most proven therapy for OCD. |
| 1:16.1 | With no CD, effective treatment that is 100% virtual is available for children and adults |
| 1:21.4 | with OCD. |
| 1:22.5 | And most members can get started within seven days on average. |
| 1:25.9 | No hassle, just real, science-backed help and support |
| 1:29.1 | between sessions. Begin your journey at nocd.com or I'll put the link in the episode description. |
| 1:35.4 | So I really enjoyed chatting with Michael and hearing his story. I think you bring something new to the |
| 1:39.7 | podcast that I've not really explored much as of yet. So thank you to him for that and being open. |
| 1:47.0 | And of course, thank you to you guys for listening. |
| 1:49.1 | As always, you know, it means a lot to me. |
| 1:51.4 | How about forever ado? |
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