Story: Rowen (Sexual orientation themed OCD, relationship themed OCD) (#491)
The OCD Stories
Stuart
4.8 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In episode 491 I chat with Rowen who has kindly agreed to share her OCD story with us.
We discuss her story, compulsively confessing, sexual orientation themed OCD, relationship themed OCD, the possibility of her birth control (IUD) affecting her mental health, 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. |
| 0:21.6 | And welcome to episode 491 of the podcast. |
| 0:25.3 | And in this one, I chat with Rowan, who has kindly agreed to share her OCD story with us. |
| 0:30.3 | And in particular, we talk about compulsively confessing, sexual orientation themed OCD, |
| 0:36.3 | relationship themed OCD, the various compulsions and obsessions she had within this theme, |
| 0:42.3 | the possibility of her birth control affecting her mental health, words of hope, and much more. |
| 0:48.8 | If OCD is interfering with your life, no CD can help. |
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| 1:18.5 | So thank you to Rowan for her time and story. I deeply appreciate it. Thank you to you guys for listening |
| 1:23.6 | as always. It means a lot. And without for ever do here is rowan welcome to the podcast |
| 1:29.1 | rowan thank you for having me yeah it's good to have you on um so as you know i'd love to hear |
| 1:35.5 | your oCD story and you can share that now as little or as much detail as you want to give |
| 1:41.3 | well thank you um so just for context, I'm 25 years old. I got diagnosed with OCD when I was 22, so in 2021. I always thought getting diagnosed that 22 was actually quite late, especially considering now that I know what I know, I think I actually |
| 2:02.3 | had it unofficially from the age of about six. And there were about, there were two or three |
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