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 in this episode I chat with Neil Hemmer.

Neil is a therapist with the masters and social work

and has plenty of personal experience of OCD.

He's come on the show to kindly share his story with us. And in particular, we talk about

his early memories around O. Cintamination O. C. D. He gives his candid account of intrusive thoughts. He talks about his faith,

his faith, religious OCD, medication,

self-medicating with alcohol, relationship OCD,

obsessive worries about having sexually assaulted someone, harm OCD, suicidal ideation,

hitting rock bottom, going impatient for OCD and addiction, smart recovery for addiction, writing scripts and expirations. and To find out more about an O. C.D. and their therapy plans and if they currently take your insurance, head to go.treat my O.C.com forward slash the O.C.

or click the link in the episode description.

And thank you to you guys as always for listening. or click the link in the episode description.

And thank you to you guys as always for listening.

I deeply appreciate it.

And without further ado, here is Neil.

Welcome to the show, Neil.

Thanks for having me on, Stu. Yes, good to have you man. And yeah, it'd be good to hear your story, O. C.D, or otherwise.

Okay, so do I just like begin at the very beginning?

Wherever you want?

Oh man, okay.

So, yeah, I've been diagnosed officially with OCD since I was 13.

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