April 2023

False Memory OCD: How do I know what’s real?

28 April 2023

False Memory OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder) is a subtype of OCD that involves recurrent, persistent, and intrusive thoughts or doubts about past events or experiences. 

These thoughts or doubts are often accompanied by strong feelings of guilt, shame, and anxiety about the experience, even when the person with OCD cannot be sure that the thoughts are rational or true.

In False Memory OCD, a person may obsess over a memory or a thought that they believe is a true event from their past, but in reality, the memory is false or distorted. 

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Menopause, Anxiety, & Your Mental Health | Ep. 334

28 April 2023

In this week’s podcast episode, we talked with Dr. Katherine Unverferth on Menopause, anxiety, and mental health. We covered the below topics:

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What is Sexual Orientation OCD (SO-OCD)? Everything You Need To Know

21 April 2023

Sexual orientation OCD (SO-OCD) is an OCD subtype that is characterized by immense fears about an individual’s sexual orientation.

This subtype was originally referred to as HOCD (homosexual OCD), but SO-OCD affects people of all sexual orientations. HOCD is now only used to describe those who very specifically struggle with homosexual obsessions.

Those with SO-OCD are plagued with highly distressing intrusive thoughts and urges that make them doubt their true sexual orientation.

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Sexual Intrusive Thoughts | Ep.333

21 April 2023

Welcome. This is Week 4 of the Sexual Health and Anxiety Series. I have loved your feedback about this so far. I have loved hearing what is right for you, what is not right for you, getting your perspective on what can be so helpful. A lot of people are saying that they really are grateful that we are covering sexual health and anxiety because it’s a topic that we really don’t talk enough about. I think there’s so much shame in it, and I think that that’s something we hopefully can break through today by bringing it into the sunlight and bringing it out into the open and just talking about it as it is, which is just all good and all neutral, and we don’t need to judge.

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Suicidal OCD: A Complete Guide

14 April 2023

Suicidal obsessive-compulsive disorder is categorized by the terrifying and unwanted fears about killing oneself.

Closely linked to Harm OCD, this subtype is sometimes called harm OCD with suicidal obsessions.  Although the fears of potentially harming oneself feel very real, suicidal OCD is actually driven by the desire to protect oneself from harm.

Those with this subtype are no more likely to die by suicide than any other OCD subtype.

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Sexual Side Effects of Anxiety Medication (& Antidepressants) | Ep. 332

14 April 2023

Hello and welcome back everybody. We are on Week 3 of the Sexual Health and Anxiety Series. At first, we talked with the amazing Lauren Fogel Mersy about sexual anxiety or sexual performance anxiety. And then last week, I went into depth about really understanding arousal and anxiety, how certain things will increase arousal, certain things will decrease it, and teaching you how to get to know what is what so that you can have a rich, intimate, fulfilling life. 

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Anxiety and Arousal | Ep. 331

7 April 2023

Welcome back, everybody. We are on Episode 2 of the Sexual Health and Anxiety Series. Today, I will be the main host and main speaker for the episode, talking about arousal and anxiety. This is a topic that goes widely misunderstood, particularly in the OCD and anxiety field where people are having arousal that they can’t make sense of. It’s also very true of people with PTSD. They’re having arousal that makes no sense to them, that confuses them, that increases anxiety, increases shame, increases guilt, and from there, it all becomes like a huge mess to them. It becomes incredibly painful, and it’s just so messy they can’t make sense of it. 

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What is Harm OCD? A Definitive Guide 

7 April 2023

Harm OCD is a subtype of OCD that focuses on obsessions surrounding harm to self and/or harm to others.

For people with OCD, harm thoughts evoke excessive feelings of shame due to the violent nature of the intrusive thoughts and the misunderstanding of OCD.  It is important that you understand that there is nothing to be ashamed of. 

Harm obsessions can be all-consuming fears about our own safety or the safety of the people that the sufferer loves most.

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