Story: Thomas Smalley (#234)

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

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🗓️ 12 July 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In episode 234 I chat with Thomas Smalley. Thomas won the IOCDF’s hero award in 2019 for his OCD advocacy. He has kindly agreed to share his OCD story.

In this episode I chat with Thomas about his OCD story, his advocacy, getting therapy, dealing with shame, tracking progress in therapy, his experience of teletherapy, how physical exercise and faith were helpful outlets for him, finding his identity after he got his time back from compulsions, dealing with stigma, words of hope and much much more. Hope it helps.

Show notes: https://theocdstories.com/episode/story-thomas-smalley-234/

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0:00.0	Hey guys and welcome to episode 234 the OCD stories.com podcast. Now in this episode I got on
0:16.8	Thomas Smalley to talk about his O. C. D. Story and in 2019 he won the
0:22.4	International O. C. DCD Foundation's Hero Award for his Advocacy Services and Initiatives.
0:28.0	So it was great to get him on to talk about that experience and to get to know his story better.
0:34.5	He goes into plenty detail and depth.
0:37.0	He also talks about getting therapy, dealing with shame, tracking progress in therapy, his experience of teletherapy, how physical exercise and faith were helpful
0:46.4	outlets for him, finding his identity after he got his time back after reducing compulsions, talk about dealing with stigma, words of hope and much, much more.
0:57.0	So thank you as always to you guys for listening.
0:59.6	I really appreciate it and I really appreciate Thomas's time to share his story.
1:05.0	And a quick shout to our podcast partners, NOCD.
1:08.0	NOCD therapy matches you with a licensed therapist trained to treat OCD, offers a personalized treatment plan, delivered
1:15.7	through face-to-face video therapy sessions.
1:18.7	Between therapy sessions you can use their therapeutic tools in the app 24-7, message your therapist and learn what helps other people
1:26.1	in their OCD peer community.
1:28.7	To find out more, head to go. TreatMyocedcom forward slash slash the OCD stories or click the link in the
1:35.2	episode description. Now on to the show. On the podcast today I have Thomas
1:40.4	Smalley who is kindly agreed to share his story with us. Welcome to the show
1:44.0	Thomas. Hey thanks for having me. It's good to have you here. As you know I like to hear people
1:51.2	with OcD's story so in as little or as much detail as you want to give it would be good to hear that
1:57.2	Yeah, so my OCD story
2:00.1	It started when I was you know started when I was probably 12 and I was kind of having some different thoughts and different and dealing with these compulsions, but then kind of not realizing what it was until I was about 15 and I started
2:15.4	doing my own personal research on what was going on because at the time I was
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