You're listening to The O. C.D. Stories podcast hosted by me, Stuart Ralph.

The O. C. D. Stories is a podcast dedicated to raising awareness and understanding

around obsessive compulsive symptoms. I do this for interviewing inspired therapists,

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

And welcome to episode 324 and in this one I got on Pamela who has kindly agreed to share

her story with us and in particular we talk about stress in childhood growing up in a religious upbringing we discuss her early memories of OCD and what that was like in childhood

Getting a diagnosis we talk about trichotillomania, depression and PTSD. She shares her

compulsions and worries. We're going to medication and exposure and response

prevention therapy and so much more.

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episode description. And thank you to Pamela I really enjoyed hearing her

story and thank you to you guys as always I deeply appreciate it and without further ado here's Pamela.

Welcome to the show Pamela. Thank you so much for having me.

Yeah it's good to have you on and you know I'd love to hear your OCD story and you can share it now in as

little or as much detail as you want to go into. For sure. So I began having symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder when I was eight years old.

And I think what really set the stage for OSC to come into my life was the high levels of stress that I experienced throughout my childhood.

And then the compiled traumas throughout that my eight-year-old self can process is what really kicked it off.

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