Story: Patrick Hussain (Suicidal themed OCD, shame, ERP) (#484)
The OCD Stories
Stuart
4.8 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In episode 484 I chat with Patrick who has kindly agreed to share his OCD story with us.
We discuss his story, suicidal themed OCD, dreams, his early OCD memories, panic, contamination, opening up to his partner, shame, exposure and response prevention therapy (ERP), we rift about OCD, words of hope, 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. |
| 0:24.3 | And welcome to episode 484. |
| 0:29.4 | And in this one, I chat with Patrick, who has kindly agreed to share his OCD story with us. |
| 0:41.3 | And in particular, we discuss suicide-themed OCD, dreams, his early OCD memories, panic, contamination, opening up to his partner, shame, |
| 0:48.2 | exposure response French in therapy, we rift about OCD for a while, words are hope and much more. |
| 0:52.2 | OCD can feel overwhelming, but help is closer than you think. |
| 0:56.0 | NoCD provides expert-led evidence-based therapy for children and adults affected by OCD. With convenient online therapy from licensed, specialized therapists |
| 1:02.5 | and real-time support between sessions, NoCD makes getting the right treatment easier than ever. |
| 1:08.9 | Start your journey today at nocd.com or the link will be |
| 1:12.7 | in the episode description. So thank you to Patrick for his time and sharing his story. I deeply |
| 1:17.4 | appreciate it. And of course, as you know, I appreciate you guys too. Thank you for listening. |
| 1:22.0 | It means a lot. But for all right to do. Welcome to the podcast, Patrick. Hi, great to meet you. Yeah, and you. It's good to have |
| 1:30.4 | you on. And as you know, I'd love to hear you what I see these stories. You can share that now and as |
| 1:34.9 | little as much detail as you want to give. Yeah, cool. I will do. So I still was reflecting a bit |
| 1:40.4 | before we jumped on to the core over the last couple of days, like around where to start, |
| 1:47.2 | really, because I think for me, the OCD all diagnosis really only happened last year, right? |
| 1:57.3 | So, but the experience of living with OCD has gone on for a really really long time and I was |
| 2:04.3 | thinking about where so the type of OCD that I struggle with is suicide OCD within the harm OCD |
| 2:11.7 | but there's also a couple of other patterns which are interesting kind of within that as well. So particularly, |
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