All Episodes

#285- Self Guided EMDR with Natalia Aiza, LPC

#284- Treatment Interfering Behaviors (TIBs) with Alec Pollard, PhD

#283- ROCD Makes Me Think My Partner Will Leave Or Cheat

#282- Can I Have POCD And Be Into Lolicon Anime?

#279- Is ROCD Making Me More Attracted To Men?

#278- Habitually Checking My Groin, and OCD Causing Self Harm Thoughts

#277- Rhinotillexomania And Picking The Right Treatment

#276- Academic Real Event OCD, Or Maybe Just False Guilt?

275- Existential? Derealization? Schizophrenia? What’s The Fear?

274- Is This Last Trigger Weird, And Dishonesty ERP Without White Lies?

#273- If I Know It’s An OCD Thought, Then I Know I’m Not Trans, Right?

#272- Getting Better and Staying Better, with Jenna Overbaugh, LPC

#271- Am I, Or Am I Not, What My Obsession Says I am?

#269- Is My Porn Use Causing Me Become A Creepy Person?

#268- Supporting Good Kids With Moral Scrup, With Elena Fasan, LCSW, and Jenny Foss, MA

#267- Is Anthony’s Girlfriend A Gargoyle, Or Is ROCD At It Again?

#265- What If My Values Aren’t Mine, Featuring Lauren Rosen, MFT

#264- Paranoid Personality Disorder And ROCD Is Not Sophi’s Friend

#263- ERP For Disordered Eating, What’s An Intrusive Thought, And More

#262- When “I’m Bisexual” Is Not Enough To Quiet ROCD/ SOOCD

#261- Can I Do All Things Through Christ Who Strengthens Me?

#260- Medication For OCD And Anxiety With Dr. Sanjaya Saxena, MD

#259- Chasing Sensorimotor Relief, And It’s Impossible To Deal With Death

#258- Struggling With Her Twin Flame, and SO-OCD Or Denial?

#257- Should We Avoid Others Or Face Taking On Their Obsessions?

#256- Rubi’s Self Harm OCD and Emily’s Therapist Directed Limerence

#255- Ed’s Fear Of Being Socially Humiliated

#254- BDD Treatment With Kimbely Quinlan, MFT, and Chris Trondsen, MFT

#253- Your OCD And Tics Will Hate This Episode With Nathan Peterson

#252- Tina’s Question About Partner Focused ROCD

#251- How Can Melody Help Her Hypochondriac Boyfriend?

#250- How Do I Trust My Intuition Again After Awkwardness?

#249- How Choices When Young Help SO-OCD Haunt You Later

#248- When Obsessions Are Also Your Interests And Values- ROCD Edition

#247- Science Proves We Don’t Have Free Will… Now What?!

#246- Are Generalized Anxiety Compulsions Different Than OCD Compulsions? GAD vs OCD!

#245- OCD Treatment And The Autism Spectrum With Dr. Jeremy Shuman, PsyD

#244- Real-Event OCD: I Used AI And All I Got Was Guilt And Anxiety

#243- Toenail Fungus Obsession… Again, and Still!

#242- What If You Actually Believe Your Obsessive Thoughts?

#241- The National OCD Survey with Dr. Caitlin Pinciotti and Jon Hershfield

#240- Emotional Contamination For Ellie’s 14 Year Old

#239- SO-OCD Is Leading To Troubles In The Bedroom. Help!

#238- Will Payton Ever Be Able To See Life Past Her Nose Again?

#237- Alana’s Perfectionism Is Driving Her Nuts!

#236- Being The Other Person In An ROCD Relationship With Danielle Cohen, LMFT

#235- Is It Normal To Have Intrusive Thoughts On Purpose?

#234- How Do I Stop, And Do ERP With, These Looping Violent Thoughts

#233- POCD: What If Therapist Actually Thinks I’m… You know?!

#232- How Can I Be A Full Time Artist Without Scrupulosity Destroying Me?

#231- Eden’s Casadastraphobia, and Taking Power From Sensorimotor OCD

#230- Not Habituating To Anxiety Of Fungus Under My Fingernails!

#229- How Can I Fight The Daily Fight Against SO-OCD?

#228- Functional Neurological Disorder and Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures with Dr. Lorna Myers

#227- Post Partum OCD with Dr. Jon Abramowitz

#226- Dealing With Dissociation, and Creative Corner with Erika McCoy

#225- Shame and Rebuilding Relationships After The Worst Of OCD

#224- Why Does OCD Feel So Real?

#223- Fear Of False Memories, and Fear Of Losing Memories

#222- Intrusive Musical Imagery: What Is It, and How Do I Stop It?

#221- What Kind Of A Person Has POCD Thoughts, and What If I Cheated?

#220- Stuck In A Real Event Obsession: ERP, Or Live And Learn?

#219- I’m Attracted To The Memory Of My Elementary School Crush… Is This POCD?

#218- What Is The Best Exposures For Sensorimotor, And Attention Training

#217- Saying “No” To Real Event OCD Has Triggered My Real Event OCD!

#216- Valentines Special: Open Relationships And The Fear of Being Replaced

#215- Living Religious Scrupulosity Through Ramadan, With Mubeena Mirza

#214- OCD Is Exhausting, So Are Kids. Do I Want Another One? Featuring Kelley Franke, MFT

#213- I’ve gone through treatment, so why do I still get these intrusive thoughts?

#212- Obsessed With Someone Else’s Smell. Is That Sensorimotor?

#211- I’ve Made A Terrible Mistake And Can’t Stop Ruminating About It!

#209- Living Well With OCD, Featuring Dr. Jonathan Abramowitz

#208- How Do Others Know “Deep Down” Their Obsessions Aren’t True?

#207- SPACE With High Dependent Adult Children With Natalia Aíza, LPC

#206- Why Do I Assume I Am, And What If I Am, What My Thought Say?!

#205- Vasovagal Syncope And A Fear Of Blood

#204- Schizophrenia OCD From Reading About Schizophrenia?!

#203- Why Is Real Life Anxiety Tougher Than My ERP Anxiety?

#202- Relationship OCD Spiked With Harm OCD? What To Do?d

#201- SPACE Treatment With Natalia Aiza, LPC

#200- Am I Creepy Or Just Morally Obsessed, And OCD Ruining Interests

#199- The Universe Put Us Together, But ROCD and SOOCD Is RUINING IT!

#198- Is This Gut Instinct Legit Or Just My OCD?

#197-Trying To Beat SO-OCD, Despite All These Compulsions!

#196- Can ERP Be Helpful To Someone Who Is In Denial?

#195- Depression, Or OCD Making Feel Depressed, Or Both?

#194- Back To School Anxiety In Kids, Teens, And Adolescents With Elena Fasan, LCSW

#193- Guilt And Shame, Groinal Sensations, And Confessing It All?

#192- Quirks Of Reassurance, and Friend Convincing Her She’s Gay

#191- Wet Paint Contamination Obsession From Years Ago

#190- What If Things Get Bad After They’ve Been Good, And Too Embarrassed to address RE-OCD

#189- Faith And Doubt: Scrupulosity Within The LDS Church With Claire Breedlove, LCSW

#188- Living A Full Life After OCD With Lauren Rosen, MFT

#187- Microdisagreements And Not Being Heard; OCD, Or Nah?

#186- How To Sell Someone On ERP, And What To Do With Groinal Sensations

#185- Obsessions Causing Pain, Is It Bad Enough To Start Therapy, And Is OCD Caused By Depression?

#184- Compulsions: Damned If I Do, Damned If I Don’t

#183- Am I In Denial Of My Sexual Orientation? Featuring Chris Trondsen, MFT

#182- Are Unresolved Issues The Cause Of My SO-OCD Obsession?

#181- Driving Anxiety And Self-Criticism, And Schizophrenia Fears

#180- Constantly Checking Whether Or Not I’m Happy. Help!

#179- I Loved Her, I Reassured Her, She Left Me. What’s Going On?

#178- Relationship OCD (ROCD) With Dr. Ran Littman, PhD

#177- Faith and Doubt: Religious Scrupulosity Within Islam With Mubeena Mirza, LCSW

#176- No Longer Being Daily Obsessed Makes Me Question The Initial Obsession

#175- The First Episode With Dr. Josh Spitalnick and Michael Stier On Health Anxiety

#174- Is SO-OCD Decreasing My Attraction To My Partner?

#173- Health Anxiety, Hypochondriasis, Health OCD

#172- Handing An Obsession Resurgence; Return To Therapy, Or Deal On My Own?

#171- Inconsistent Arousal, Childhood Experimentation, Lots of Checking… I’m Gay, Right?

#170- Staying Present Amidst My SO-OCD and ROCD Obsessions, and Psychics Ruining My Marriage!

#169- Confessing, Sharing, Or Getting Support With SO-OCD

#168- My Family Is Stuck And Overwhelmed By COVID

#167- Religious Scrupulosity Treatment Triggers Self Harm Thoughts. Help!

#166- ROCD: Do I Really Find Them Attractive? Did I Ever?

#165- Afraid Of Heart Attack If My Heart Rate Goes Too High!

#164- Trauma-Informed Treatment For OCD With Dr. Caitlin Pinciotti

#163- Potential Radiation Exposure And Dealing With The Fallout

#161- Balancing Mental Health With Fear Of Missing Potential Medical Emergency (Health Anxiety)… Again

#162- Settling Into ‘Bisexuality’, And Blaming Myself For Eye-Floaters and Anxiety

#155:Remix- Coping, And Doing ERP, With Contamination Obsessions That Can’t Be Disproved

#161- Balancing Mental Health With Fear Of Missing Potential Medical Emergency (Health Anxiety)

#160- Moral Scrupulosity With Jon Hershfield, MFT

#159- Yes Or No To Start Dating With SO-OCD, And To Give Money Or To Hoard Money?

#158- Is This Feeling My ROCD Or Picking Up On Bad Vibes, And DPDR, Hyperawareness OCD, and ERP

#157- Neurodivergent Treatment For OCD and Anxiety Spectrum Disorders With Dr. Jeremy Shuman, PsyD

#156- What If Gory Thoughts Leads To Passing Out Behind The Wheel And ERP Won’t Help!?

#155- Coping, And Doing ERP, With Contamination Obsessions That Can’t Be Disproved

#154- Shame And Toxic Shame In OCD With Mike Heady, LCPC

#153- New Hyperawareness Theme? Old Theme? Or Same Old Theme?

#152- Anxiety In The Arts With Guest Brian Killeen

#151- Out-Patient, IOP, PHP, or Residential ? Levels Of Care With Michelle Massi, MFT

#150- Maladaptive Daydreaming- What Is It, And How Can I Deal With It?

#149- Returning Obsessions: Never Going Back To Who I Was, And How To Stop Monitoring Anxiety?

#148- EMDR Treatment: Where It Works And Where It Doesn’t With Bronwyn Shroyer, LCSW

When OCD Recovery Becomes The Obsession, And ROCD Complicated By LTR?

#146- Struggling To Find Good Resources And Help, And Does Christianity Cause OCD?

#145- Feared Outcome Actually Keeps Happening, And I Can’t Stop Staring At People’s Privates

#144- Anxiety Without Intrusive Thought, Intermittent Numbness, And Telling A Partner About OCD

#143- ROCD, Fixating On A Partner’s Specific Body Part, Or Simple Attraction?

#142- Disgust-Based OCD And Evolving Treatment Methods With Rich Gallagher, MFT

#141-Activities Becoming Triggers and Habituating to Breathing In Sensorimotor OCD

#140- For ROCD, What Should I Treat As OCD And What Should I Treat As Relationship Issues?

#139- SO-OCD Has Nothing To Do With Your Sexuality, and Dealing With The Uncertainty

#138- How To Help Your Family Member Who Has OCD

#137- Avoidant/ Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) with Dr. Megan Faye, PsyD

#136- Doing Exposures While Being ‘Master Of Your Domain’ Within Orthodox Judaism with Meshulem Epstein, LCSW

#135- What Do I Do If SO-OCD Is Fake, and Convincing Your Partner They Have ROCD

#134- Religious Scrupulosity OCD with Rev. Katie O’Dunn

#133- Eating and Contamination, Getting Family Support, and PPOCD When It’s Only Obsessions

#132- OCD, Dating, And Relationships with Lauren Rosen, MFT

#131- Partner Focused ROCD, and Exposures For, and Dating Despite, SO-OCD

#130- Is Recovery Possible, Giving Back After Recovery, “Am I Moral,” and Life After Miscarriage

#129- Can OCD Stop You From Feeling Love, and Dealing With Rapidly Changing Obsessions

#128- What if the obsession isn’t “What If”, and Real-Event OCD from past porn/ sexting addiction?

#127- How Community Needs To Be Part Of Treatment, with Justin Hughes, MA

#126- Rumination Focused CBT For OCD with Dr. Michael Greenberg, pt II

#125- I Lost Weight, Now I obsess That I Don’t Know What I Look Like

#124- SO-OCD On LGBTQ+ Spectrum and What To Do With Terrible Anxiety During Relapse

#123- Casadastraphobia Story, Getting Mom’s Support, and Feeling Like I’m Back At Square One

#122- Isn’t Knowing If It’s True Important, and Struggling To Believe In God

#121- Anxiety In The Arts With Erica

#120- Struggling With SO-OCD, and Using Thought Stopping and Logic

#119- Justice Based Treatment For SO-OCD with Dr. Lauren Wadsworth

#118- So, What’s All This Mindfulness Stuff About With Jon Hershfield, MFT

#117- Turning Shame Into Guilt and Obligated To Pray?

#116- Anxiety in the Arts with Noel Dumont

#115- How To Deal With Fear of Mishandling Money As A Bank Teller?

#114- De-Associating Music and Memories, Getting Started With HO-OCD, and “Not Wanting Us”

#113- Nausea Panic, “Loud” Surroundings, and Starting College With Pure O

#112- Mental Rumination with Kristina Orlova

#111- Asymmetry Just Right Obsessions, and Exposures For Just Right OCD?

#110- Real Event and/ or False Memory OCD and Trusting Your Compulsion’s Conclusion

#109- Anxiety in the Arts with Rick Fitzwater

SO-OCD: “Late Bloomers,” Anxiety During Imaginals, and Genetics

Anxiety in the Arts with Lefty Lucy

What If Love Isn’t A Choice, Partners Who Don’t Understand OCD, and Convincing Compulsions

Anxiety in the Arts with JSalvador

Checking About Past Partners, Swallowing Obsessions, and Feeling “Saved”

Inference Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with Carl Robbins

Anxiety in the Arts with Sarah Winchester

How Do I “Just Be” With My Thoughts, And How Do I Get Certainty About My Feelings For My Boyfriend?

How Do I Deal With Ruminations, and Discussing HOCD With My Partner?

Understanding and Navigating Mental Compulsions with Lauren Rosen, MFT, Kelley Franke, MFT, Elena Fasan, LCSW, and Kevin Foss, MFT

What Is OCD (Because Steven Crowder Doesn’t Know)?

Coming to terms with your diagnosis, and should OCD stop me from being a therapist?

Orthorexia with Chris Trondsen, MFT

March Madness Question Jumble

ROCD about my partner’s real “condition,” and Do my anxieties mean I’m not in the right relationship?

What to do in the latter parts of therapy?

What To Do With “Flavor of the Week OCD?”

Treatment Pet Peeves: Reassurance, Support, Feedback, and Overdoing Exposures with Dr. Claggett-Woods

Chronic porn use leading to POCD, and what’s up with ‘Toddlers & Tiaras’?

How Can I Tell If It’s HOCD or Suppressed Attraction?

Panic Disorder or OCD, or Will I Eventually Just Go Insane?

Fear of Seeing a Dome In The Sky and Cozy-Comfy Hyperawareness

Harm OCD

Can I have more than one obsession, and what if I orgasm during ERP?

Christmas and Religious Scrupulosity with Mitzi VanCleve

Obsessing about obsessing, and dealing with “I’m sooo OCD”

Trigger Warnings with Nathan Peterson, Kelley Franke, and Lauren Rosen

Marriage, Intimacy, and Scrupulosity feature Erin Ramachandran

HOCD caused by my ROCD? And HOCD caused by my lack of relationship experience?

“What To Do When Obsessions Overlap With Genuine Interests”- IOCDF presentation with Kelley Franke, MFT, and Lauren Rosen, MFT

#78- Losing Natural Ability To Blink, Self-Compassion, and Are Obsessions Partially True?

#77- Symmetry OCD, the “feeling problem”, trauma, and compulsive flooding

Lynn’s Questions

Vocal tension OCD, what to say to my HOCD thoughts, and transferring my obsessions to my partner

Addiction Treatment and OCD Treatment with Elizabeth Bartholomew

Body Dysmorphic Disorder with Chris Trondsen

False Memory OCD, Anger as a Compulsions, and What If People Find Out About My Exposures

Dealing with a real life health issue, a response to dealing with a real health issue, and whether or not to work with a specialist

Follow-Up Questions From The Real-Event OCD Episode

Forward Moving Faith and Intrusive Thoughts As An Aversion To Faith

Stuart Ralph of The OCD Stories

Mental Health Strong with Erin Ramachandran

Omega 3, Relapse Prevention, My Google History, and TOCD

TOCD, Why Exposures Work, How To Make Sexual OCD worse,To Distract or Not?

Safety, Preparation, and Life Threatening Situations With Officer Jordan

Rumination with Dr. Michael Greenberg

Faith and Doubt- Scrupulosity in Orthodox Judaism with Dr. Jedidiah Siev

Breaking their heart, what if it’s not ego-dystonic, and TERRIFIED of being gay!

A Little Bit of Unicycle, A Lot of OCD

Uncertainty and Resilience with Mike Sizemore

Phobia Phriday-Trypanophobia

More ROCD Listener Questions

Phobia Phriday- Oudenophobia

December Jumble- HOCD, ROCD, Hyperawareness, Scrupulosity

Phobia Phriday- Casadastraphobia

More Sexual Obsession Questions

Phobia Phriday- Koumpounophobia

Phobia Phriday- Emetophobia

Sensorimotor Questions- All Breathing, All The Time

Phobia Phriday- Submechanophobia

HOCD and Other Sexually Focused Obsessions

Certainty and Confidence with Jon Hershfield, MFT

Health Real Event, Eye Floaters, and At What Point is it OCD?

Faith and Doubt Series- with Jaimie Eckert

Listener Questions- Headaches, Sensory Integration, And Disclosing OCD

To Share Bible Verses, and When HOCD Doesn’t Conflict With Gay Porn

Real Event OCD, Cancel Culture, and Reassurance

10 Things A Parent of a Child or Adolescent With OCD Should Know- With Elena Fasan, LCSW

Erotic Friend Fiction, Hyper-Hyperawareness, and Insomnia

TOCD Exposures and Surviving POCD

Intrusive Thoughts At Church, and The HOCD/ROCD Venn Diagram

“Chesticular” Responses and Compulsive Suicidal Thoughts

HOCD is a Libido Killer and Trouble Making Decisions

Stuck in the Pandemic and Stuck in HOCD Obsessions

Postpartum and Perinatal OCD With Kelley Franke

Coronavirus, and ROCD/ HOCD Questions

S’s Mom’s Questions

ROCD Listener Question

Imperfection

OCD, God, and Masturbation

Shame and Guilt

OCD, OCPD, and the Kardashians

What is Acceptance?

Winter Is Coming, and Gaslighting OCD

Anxious Drunk and Is God A Tyrant?

ERP- Anxiety Doing The Thing and Avoiding The Thing

Bill Hader and Cognitive Distortions

Panic!

More Listener Questions

ROCD: Relationship OCD

Psychodynamic Therapy and Brain Squirrels

5 Tip For Your Best Summer (with anxiety)

Faith and Doubt: Guest Fr. Thomas Santa

Conspiracy Theories and Listener Questions

Faith and Doubt: Guest Mike Erre

Religious Scrupulosity

Listener Question- Groinal Sensations and HOCD

Sensorimotor/ Hyperawareness

Identity Is More Than Your Diagnosis

Question & Answer

Post-Partum OCD

Making Decisions

Pedophile OCD

HOCD or Sexual Orientation OCD

Finding a Therapist

Probability of Risk

Inhibitory Learning Model

Rational vs Irrational Phobias

The Underminer

We Should Talk… About OCD

Getting Fired

Personal Emergency Kit

Some Thoughts Are Gross

Existential OCD

Goals and Dogs