Story: Mike Vatter (#264)
The OCD Stories
Stuart
4.8 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
In episode 264 I chat with Mike Vatter who has kindly agreed to share his story with us. Mike is on the board of OCD Jacksonville.
In this episode I chat with Mike about his OCD story, things having to be just right, panic attacks, hitting breaking point, pulling hair, how his first therapist thought he didn’t have OCD, how a hit and run OCD episode helped him get an OCD diagnosis, using humour to make it easier, meeting his biological parents, and much much more. Hope it helps.
Show notes: https://theocdstories.com/episode/story-mike-vatter-264
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys and welcome to episode 264 of the Oc stories.com podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | Now as always thank you so much for listening. I deeply appreciate it. |
| 0:18.0 | And in this episode I chat with Mike Vatter who has come on to share his story with us. Mike is on the board of |
| 0:25.4 | O. C. D. Jacksonville, an affiliate of the I. S. D. F. And in our conversation, Mike goes into sharing |
| 0:32.0 | his O. C, things having to be just right. |
| 0:36.8 | He talks about panic attacks, hitting breaking point, he talks about pulling hair and |
| 0:41.8 | how his first therapist thought he didn't have a CD. |
| 0:45.0 | Eventually how a hit and run a CD episode helped him get an a CD diagnosis. |
| 0:50.0 | Using humour to make it easier, meeting his biological parents and the story behind that. |
| 0:56.0 | And we discussed much, much more. |
| 0:58.0 | It was a really interesting conversation with Mike. |
| 1:00.0 | I think you're going to enjoy it. |
| 1:02.0 | And this episode is sponsored by NOCD and NOCD have now |
| 1:05.3 | launched in the United Kingdom, my home country. You know they've worked really hard |
| 1:11.0 | over the last sort of five or so years to really |
| 1:13.5 | improve access to therapy for OCD so it's wonderful to see them across the |
| 1:18.1 | Atlantic Ocean and into the UK so if you want to find out more about that I'll put the link in the episode description or go to go dot treat my OCD.com forward slash the OCD stories. |
| 1:30.0 | Thank you to those guys for sponsoring the show and for their hard work. |
| 1:32.8 | However, for every ado, here is Mike. On the podcast today I have Mike Vatter who has kindly agreed to share his story with us. |
| 1:40.2 | Welcome to the show Mike. |
| 1:41.6 | Thank you, appreciate it. Good to be here. Yeah it's good to have you on the |
| 1:46.0 | podcast and of course you interviewed me six months ago so yes nice to return the favour. So yeah as you know it would be great to hear your |
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