Story: Riley (Compulsive exercise, residential treatment, finding joy again) (#496)
The OCD Stories
Stuart
4.8 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In episode 496 I chat with Riley who has kindly agreed to share her OCD story with us.
We discuss how OCD latched on to her sport (swimming), compulsive exercise, her different compulsions, obsessions around being strong, getting therapy, restricting foods, residential treatment, medication, finding joy in activities again, 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. |
| 0:12.8 | I do this for interviewing inspired therapists, psychologists, and people who have experienced OCD. |
| 0:18.9 | Welcome to the OCD Stories. |
| 0:25.0 | And welcome to episode 496 of the podcast. |
| 0:30.9 | And in this one, I chat with Riley, who has kindly agreed to share her OCD story with us. And in particular, we talk about how OCD latched onto her sport of swimming, compulsive exercise, her different compulsions, obsessions |
| 0:39.7 | around being strong, getting therapy, restricting foods, residential treatment, medication, |
| 0:46.9 | finding joy in activities again, words of hope and much, much more. And thanks to our podcast |
| 0:52.5 | partners, no CD? If OCD is interfering with your life, |
| 0:56.7 | no CD can help. They're licensed therapists, specialise in exposure and response prevention therapy, |
| 1:02.9 | the most proven therapy for OCD. With no CD, effective treatment that is 100% virtual, |
| 1:08.5 | is available for children and adults with OCD. |
| 1:11.6 | And most members can get started within seven days on average. |
| 1:15.0 | No hassle, just real, science-backed help and support between sessions. |
| 1:19.5 | Begin your journey at nocd.com or I'll put the link in the episode description. |
| 1:24.5 | So thank you so much to Riley for sharing her story. |
| 1:27.1 | I deeply appreciate it. And of course, thank you to much to Riley for sharing her story. I deeply appreciate it. |
| 1:29.0 | And of course, thank you to you guys for listening as always. It means a lot. About further ado, |
| 1:33.8 | here is Riley. Welcome to the podcast, Riley. Thank you so much. I'm so happy to be here. Yeah, it's |
| 1:42.4 | really nice to meet you and yeah. Likewise. Yeah, it's good to have you on. And as you know, |
| 1:47.5 | I'd love to hear your OCD story. So you can share that and there's literal as much detail as you |
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