You're listening to The O. C.D. Stories,

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.

Welcome to episode 276 and in this one I chat with Rachel Huber. Rachel has kindly agreed to share her story with us and in it we talk about her story postpartum

OCD or maternal OCD worrying about the health and safety of her

children her therapy journey and much more and thanks as always to NOCD for supporting the show and the work that we do.

NOCD are now operating in Australia as well as UK and USA. So good work to OCD for continuing their expansion and thank you to

them for sponsoring the show and if you want to find out more head to go dot treat

my OCD.com forward slash the OcedD stories or click the link in the episode

description. So thank you for listening to the show as always I appreciate it and

thank you to Rachel for sharing her story.

And about forever ado, here she is.

Welcome to the show, Rachel.

Thank you, thanks so much for having me.

It's good to have you here.

And as you know, I'd like to hear your ACD story and anything else you want to include in that is perfectly fine.

Okay great. All right well let's see where to begin. I guess I'd start by talking about when I first kind of noticed I had OCD. Obviously at the time I didn't. You OCD is more just kind of new you know like so when I was

younger it was just kind of diagnosed as like an anxiety disorder so obviously at the time I didn't know what was going on but looking

back I could say two of like the biggest memories I have of having OcD was, I was at a hotel with my family and I remember it had like a kitchen in it and I remember

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