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Welcome to OCD Insights, where we explore the complexities of OCD with compassion and clarity. Join licensed therapist and OCD specialist Samantha Bray, LCSW, as we dive into understanding, hope, and healing.
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Every Day, I'm Brave: Renee Zukin On Doing The Hard Thing Even When You Are Afraid (opens the original)
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Intrusive thoughts told Renee Zukin lies for decades before anyone named them OCD. She was diagnosed in her thirties, and built a life she loves anyway. For anyone told to trust their gut when their gut is the loudest part of the alarm. Every Day, I'm Brave: https://www.everydayimbrave.com | Work with Samantha : https://www.ocdinsights.com/workwithme | All Episodes : https://www.ocdinsights.com/podcast Episode 7 | OCD Insights About Renee Zukin Renee Zukin is an author, educator, and coach with
Treatment Resistant OCD: Building The Ultimate 8 (opens the original)
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Treatment Resistant OCD: 3 courses of therapy, 9 medications, and still needing help. Carl stopped waiting for the system and built his own. Samantha Bray, LCSW sits down with Carl, an OCD advocate from a small village in the UK, to walk through the eight pillar system he built for himself. The OCD Practice: https://www.youtube.com/@TheOCDPractice Work with Samantha: https://www.ocdinsights.com/workwithme | All Episodes: https://www.ocdinsights.com/podcast Episode 6 | OCD Insights Content Note:
HOCD or Denial? Understanding Arousal and the Groinal Response (opens the original)
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Is this HOCD, or is this denial? In this first Q&A episode, Samantha Bray, LCSW answers a real listener's question about the groinal response and HOCD (sexual orientation OCD): what it means when compulsive "testing" produces the exact arousal response he feared, and why that response says nothing about who he is. With his permission, Samantha breaks the question down piece by piece: the biology of arousal, why "testing" behaviors are compulsions disguised as exposures, and why this theme, somet
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