Story: Shaun Flores (#348)
The OCD Stories
Stuart
4.8 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In episode 348 I chat with Shaun Flores who has kindly agreed to share his story with us.
We discuss his story, how a dream triggered OCD in a big way, sexual orientation themed OCD, suicidal themed OCD, harm themed OCD, ADHD, some of the possible reasons why people of colour are under represented in the OCD community, how he’s doing now, his advocacy, and much more. Hope it helps.
Show notes: https://theocdstories.com/episode/shaun-248
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The O. C.D. Stories podcast, hosted by me, Stuart Ralph. |
| 0:05.3 | The O. C. D. Stories is a podcast dedicated to raising awareness and understanding |
| 0:10.1 | around obsessive compulsive symptoms. I do this for interviewing inspired therapists, |
| 0:15.2 | psychologists and people who have experienced OCD. Welcome to the OCD stories. |
| 0:21.8 | Welcome to episode 348 of the podcast and in this one I got on Sean |
| 0:26.7 | Flores who has kindly agreed to share his story with us and in particular we talk |
| 0:31.5 | about how a dream triggered O. C. D. in a big way for him. Sexual orientation themed O. C. D. Suicidal themed O. C. D. D. A. D. diagnosis. Some of the possible reasons why people of color are |
| 0:46.8 | underrepresented in the O. C. Community. How he's doing now, his advocacy and so much more. |
| 0:54.0 | And thank you to No CD for supporting the podcast. |
| 0:56.7 | No CD offers effective and convenient therapy available in the US and outside the US. |
| 1:01.9 | To find out more about No CCD, their therapy plans, if they |
| 1:04.8 | currently take your insurance or to download their free app, head to go. |
| 1:09.6 | Treat My OCD.com. forward slash the OCD stories stories or the link will be in the |
| 1:14.3 | episode description. It was a real pleasure to chat with Sean and hear his |
| 1:18.7 | story so I hope it inspires and resonates with you. |
| 1:22.5 | And the sound quality, my side, I had an issue |
| 1:25.4 | when I was chatting with Sean with my mic setup. |
| 1:28.8 | So I had to switch to the original method |
| 1:31.5 | I did the podcast in the first 70-80 episodes which is using my Apple |
| 1:36.1 | headphones. So the sound quality my end isn't as good but hopefully it sounds okay. |
| 1:42.0 | And thank you as always to you guys for listening |
| 1:44.0 | I deeply appreciate it and without further do here is Sean welcome to the show |
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