Hey folks, this is Kevin. On this week's episode of Risk, you'll hear Mitch Applebaum.

At this point, I got to tell you, I hate eye contact. I suck at eye contact. I don't like it.

I always look away. But I'll be damned if I'm going to let this little girl intimidate me.

That and more. But first, do you have stories about Thanksgiving or maybe just stories about

gratitude? Pitch them to us at risk dash show.com slash submissions. Also, if you like cutting

together audio, you can make a winter holidays themed interstitial for the podcast.

Cut together strange songs, crazy movie quotes, old commercials, go crazy, get clever.

As long as your interstitial isn't longer than a minute, we'll consider running it on this

year's holiday stories episode.

You can email me about that at Kevin at risk-show.com.

We'll be right back.

Folks, we've heard some jaw-dropping stories on the show before, but sometimes the

stories our own minds tell us can be the most jaw-dropping

of all. If you've ever been caught off guard by disturbing, unwanted thoughts, you might know

what we mean. When something violent or taboo or embarrassing bursts into your mind, it can leave you reeling and wondering,

what does that thought say about me? Well, that happens to almost everyone, but for people with

obsessive-compulsive disorder or OCD, they tend to cause a lot of distress and feel impossible to stop thinking about.

A good friend of mine has OCD, so I've witnessed this struggle up close, and it's taught me a lot

about how serious and misunderstood the condition is.

People think OCD is only about hand washing or organization.

OCD can latch on to anything,

but it often focuses on the things we care about most.

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