You're listening to The O. C.D do this for interviewing inspired therapists,

psychologists and people who have experienced OCD. Welcome to the OCD stories.

And welcome to episode 335 and in this one Tracy has kindly agreed to share her story with us and in it

we discuss mesophonia perfectionism religious scrupleocity, starting with therapy, ADHD, sexual intrusive

thoughts, unwanted arousal, groinal, needing to get therapy perfect, rumination and so much more.

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so thank you to Tracy for a time I appreciate it and of course thank you to you guys

for your time I appreciate you listening

and without further ado here she is. Welcome to the podcast Tracy. Thank you. It's very good to be here

I feel a little starstru struck right now but thank you I've been a

listener not ever been a participant so this is cool so it's good to have you on I'm

looking forward to hearing your story. So, you know, as you know, I'd like to hear your story and you can go into as little or as much detail as you want it.

Okay, I, you know, I thought about this a lot and what I want to share and I do want to share the last two years because you know, they they was where I've really discovered a lot about my OCD and And it had a lot of different experiences.

But I do want to just hash out real quickly.

I'm like most people who knew they had O. C.D. as a child child I was really funny about textures and weird things touching my skin, the way my shoes were tied, smells, noises. I still have a big problem with people chewing gum and smacking and stuff. So I have that mezo-phonia thing and as a child I was just terrified by all that stuff. You know, it just, I hated being around anything that made me

uncomfortable or made me feel weird. And I remember that. I had a lot of worries

over my mom. She had suffered from severe depression and I remember that

really bothering me.

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