Story: Stephen D'Intino (existential OCD, a detrimental psychedelics experience, trauma) (#486)
The OCD Stories
Stuart
4.8 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
In episode 486 I chat with Stephen who has kindly agreed to share his OCD story with us.
We discuss his story, his early memories, how OCD affected his work, existential themed OCD, medication, a detrimental psychedelics experience, religious scrupulosity, derealisation, getting admitted to a psychiatric ward, therapy, agoraphobia, boundaries, trauma work, 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 |
| 0:17.8 | OCD. |
| 0:18.9 | Welcome to the OCD Stories. |
| 0:21.8 | And welcome to episode 486 of the podcast. And in this one, I chat with Stephen, who has currently |
| 0:27.6 | agreed to share his OCD story with us. In particular, we talk about his early memories, how |
| 0:33.8 | OCD affected his work, existential themed OCD, medication, a detrimental psychedelics experience, |
| 0:42.1 | religious scruposity, derealisation, getting admitted to a psychiatric ward, therapy, agrophobia, |
| 0:49.5 | boundaries, trauma work and much more. OCD can feel overwhelming, but help is closer than you think. |
| 0:56.4 | NoCD provides expert-led, evidence-based therapy for children and adults affected by OCD. |
| 1:02.3 | With convenient online therapy from licensed, specialized therapists and real-time support between sessions, |
| 1:09.5 | noCD makes getting the right treatment easier than ever. |
| 1:12.6 | Start your journey today at nocd.com or the link will be in the episode description. |
| 1:18.0 | So thank you to Stephen for his time. It's great here in his story and I appreciate him sharing it. |
| 1:23.1 | And of course, thank you to you guys for listening as always. It means a lot approaching episode 500, |
| 1:27.4 | which is |
| 1:28.0 | yeah weird to say um but i appreciate all the support over the years or if you're a recent listener |
| 1:34.0 | thank you for listening about further ado here is stephen welcome to the podcast stephen oh thank you |
| 1:40.8 | very much yeah thanks for having it. No worries. |
| 1:45.0 | So I'd love to hear your OCD story, and you can share that now in as little as much detail as you want to give. |
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