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   Thanks for your commitment and effort in bringing these OCD podcasts to us. They are invaluable in filling the gaps and answering lingering question OCDers like me have about what the road to recovery looks, sounds and feels like. It is really helpful hearing the official experts speaking and adds another dimension to their written work (books and articles).
   Again, thank you.
   Susanne
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     Thank you Susanne for the kind words!!! Hope you’re well.
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   Stew, amazing job once again. Dr. Steven Phillipson is amazing and really resonates with me. Next time you have him on could you ask him”do we treat our panic and anxiety the same way as ocd thoughts by ERP as well?” I know I kinda answered that question on my own but would like to hear you guys discuss what to do with the by products of the ocd thoughts such as the fear panic and anxiety. Keep up the good work, you guys have helped me more then you will ever know!
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     Thank you Phil for the kind words!!! I have made a note of the question 🙂
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   To Stuart and the team behind the OCD stories series,

   I just wanted to thank you for the honest and open discussion you are providing on OCD and how it affects sufferers. I have suffered with OCD since I was 11y old , have been an inpatient and have had my life on hold, like many of the guests on the podcast.

   I am now 28, living in the UK and studying to be an art therapist. I still suffer with OCD and wouldn’t be doing so well if it wasn’t for my amazing family and support network.

   The podcast is really amazing, I don’t know anything like it! It gets such a good variety of guests on, from therapists to sufferers , advocates and psychiatrists. It offers so much and in a really human way!

   Thank you for everything you are doing!

   Josie
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     Hi Josie,

     Thank you so much for listening and for your kind words. I am glad the podcast has helped you and that you are doing better. Wishing you every success on your art therapy journey!

     Thanks,
     Stu
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   I am a regular listener to this podcast, I have OCD, and I was disgusted by the disrespectful manner in which Dr Phillipson discussed his patients. ERP and CBT have often had problems with patient care, preferring to see a broken machine than a person with thoughts and feelings. For a medical doctor to publicly declare that he tells his patients that he does not care about the pain they are in during treatment is horrific. Would you accept such a comment from a surgeon? Much treatment, whether for physical or mental illnesses, involves pain. The pain might be unavoidable, but making that pain worse by publicly shaming patients is avoidable. The very least our doctors owe us is a basic level of human feeling for the very real pain OCD causes.
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     Hi Clare,

     Thanks for your comment. Sorry that this episode came across like that to you. I don’t believe Dr Phillipson meant it in that way – you could always email him to clarify what he meant. From my experience with Dr Phillipson is that he deeply cares about his clients and their experience in therapy. Sometimes things get lost in translation on the podcast.

     Thank you for sharing your experience, and thanks for listening to the show.

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