The Dark Grip of OCD - Dr. Jenny Yip

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture, Mental Health, Sexuality

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2018

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

She battled OCD as a child but when she gave birth to twins it gripped her again despite being a trained psychologist who specializes in...yes...OCD. A great episode about the power fear, dark thoughts and shame in fueling OCD but also the power of getting help. She tearfully recalls her obsessive monitoring of her newborns despite being exhausted; being gripped by fear, almost certainty of their imminent deaths if she left their side. Dr Yip shares about her postpartum OCD and OCD in general, how it can be treated, how loved ones can be supported without enabling them and the pressure on young mothers to "be perfect" in the eyes of other young mothers. For more on Dr. Yip Website: www.RenewedFreedomCenter.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drjennycyip/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrJennyYip Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drjennyyip/ Book: Productive, Successful YOU! End Procrastination by Making Anxiety Work for You Rather Than Against You Podcast: The Stress-Less Life with Dr. Yip This ep is sponsored by BetterHelp online therapy. To try a week of counseling for free go to www.BetterHelp.com/mental Must be 18 This ep is sponsored by the PsychCentral Podcast Show. Listen by going to www.psychcentral.com/show or through your favorite podcast player. Listen to the episode where Paul was a guest. To become a monthly donor (and qualify for bonus content and goodies from Paul go to www.Patreon.com/mentalpod To make a one-time donations via Paypal go to www.mentalpod.com/donate To help fund Paul's next trip to record international guests, especially in Ireland, go to https://www.gofundme.com/pauls-trip-to-ireland Follow Paul on Twitter and Instagram @mentalpod See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Miss Fit toys.
0:02.7	Welcome to episode 368 with my guest Dr. Jenny Yip.
0:06.5	We're going to talk about OCD.
0:09.7	My name is Paul Gilmarton.
0:10.7	This is the Metal Infulness Happy Hour, a place for honesty about all the battles in
0:14.6	our heads from medically diagnosed conditions, past traumas, and sexual dysfunction to everyday
0:21.2	compulsive negative thinking.
0:23.0	There's shows not meant to be a substitute for professional mental counseling.
0:27.2	I'm not a therapist.
0:28.2	It's not a doctor's office.
0:30.9	It's more like a waiting room.
0:32.0	It doesn't suck.
0:33.0	This show is part interview, part listener confession via the surveys.
0:38.6	People fill out on our website.
0:40.6	That website is mentalpod.com.
0:43.0	Metalpod is also the Twitter and Instagram.
0:46.9	Handle that you can find us at.
0:51.2	And the Facebook page, I think, is a slash mental pod.
0:55.4	I have had a pretty, for those of you that are regular listeners, you know that something
1:01.9	kind of kooky happened to me, or I should say, I witnessed two weeks ago something that
1:07.8	was pretty traumatizing, numbing.
1:11.0	I'm not sure what the word would be, but I think I shared last week that my therapist
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