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Story: Stephen Johns (#254)
Published 5 years, 6 months ago
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In episode 254 I chat with Stephen Johns who has kindly agreed to share his story with us.
In this episode I chat with Stephen about his story: violent, sexual orientation and self harm/suicidal intrusive thoughts, getting ineffective treatment, eventually finding a therapist that helped, working hard in Exposure and Response Prevention therapy (ERP), he goes into details into the lengths he went with his compulsions, his medications, how the suicide of one of his favourite musicians triggered a relapse for him, how perfectionism impacted his therapy, how the experience of OCD taught him to slow down in his life, words of hope and much much more.
Show notes: https://theocdstories.com/episode/story-stephen-johns-254