Story: Stephen Johns (#254)

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Stuart

Bdd, Health & Fitness, Recovery, Hocd, Cocd, Rocd, Bodydysmorphicdisorder, Ocd, Anxiety, Obsessivecompulsivedisorder, Mental Health, Help, Mentalhealth, Depression, Advice

4.8 • 873 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

In episode 254 I chat with Stephen Johns who has kindly agreed to share his story with us.

In this episode I chat with Stephen about his story: violent, sexual orientation and self harm/suicidal intrusive thoughts, getting ineffective treatment, eventually finding a therapist that helped, working hard in Exposure and Response Prevention therapy (ERP), he goes into details into the lengths he went with his compulsions, his medications, how the suicide of one of his favourite musicians triggered a relapse for him, how perfectionism impacted his therapy, how the experience of OCD taught him to slow down in his life, words of hope and much much more.

Show notes: https://theocdstories.com/episode/story-stephen-johns-254

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0:00.0	Hey guys and welcome to episode 254 of the OCD stories.com podcast.
0:13.7	Now in this episode I interview Stephen Johns
0:16.5	who's kindly agreed to share his story with us and in it I talk to him
0:21.2	about his journey the the experience of OCD, violence, sexual orientation
0:27.1	and self-harm intrusive thoughts, getting ineffective treatment, eventually finding a therapist that helped, working hard in
0:34.2	exposure response prevention therapy.
0:36.7	He goes into details into the lengths he went with his compulsions, his medications, how
0:41.6	the suicide of one of his favorite musicians triggered a relapse for him,
0:46.0	how perfectionism impacted his therapy, how the experience of OCD taught him to slow down in his life,
0:51.6	words of hope, and much, much more. I really enjoyed this
0:54.7	conversation and I hope you will do too. About further ado here is Stephen Johns.
1:01.1	On the podcast today I have Stephen Johns
1:04.0	who is kindly agreed to share his story of us.
1:06.4	Welcome to the show, Steve.
1:08.8	Thank you for having me, Stu.
1:11.3	You know, and getting ready for recording today, I thought to myself, you know and getting ready for recording today I thought to myself you know am I the first
1:16.0	Canadian who's ever appeared on the OCD stories and then I was going back through all
1:21.0	episodes and I think your first ever guest was actually Canadian. I'm about as far from being the first Canadian as as possible.
1:28.6	Well, you know, I've had a few Canadians, but definitely not as many as Americans, so it's still good to have you.
1:38.0	Yeah, cheers. Looking forward to this.
1:40.0	Yeah, no worries.
1:42.0	Okay, so, you know, it would be good to hear, as you know, your story, O. C.D. or otherwise, in as little or as much detail as you want to give.
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