Hey guys and welcome to this story edition of the OCD Stories.com podcast.

Now in this episode, I'm going to read Eric's Story.

Now, Eric's story is called My 40 Year Journey with OCD.

And I want to share this because it's an interesting story

and there's a lot of inspiration and advice in it I believe that could help you and

Eric is quite active on Twitter where he he shares good advice around OCD and support

and encouragement so definitely follow him on Twitter if you are on that platform

and you'll be able to find all that information as well as his written story

on the ocdstories.com website but before I read it I have launched another inspirational if

you want to call it that t-shirt and I 90% to 95% of the t-shirts I wear personally are slogans quotes just because

that's what I find motivating inspiring generally in life and I just like it for some

reason so you know I've created another one and if if you guys like it, it helps motivate you.

So I've relaunched the one I did before, which was lots of worries and that's okay, kind of this play on acceptance.

And another one I've launched now, it's got obsessive-compulsive disorder.

But above the O is overcome, above the C is compulsions, above the

D is daily. So it's overcome compulsions daily as well as obsessive compulsive disorder because

in ERP it's about weeding out the compulsions, not asking for reassurance, not checking the plug

socket for the eighth time, not washing our hands.

And when we learn to live with anxiety, over time, the obsessions and anxiety decreases.

We become used to it when we resist compulsion.

So I wanted to create motivational t-shirt.

Should it interest you where it can remind you to overcome compulsions daily and I fully believe

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