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Welcome to The PANS/PANDAS Stories. In the first series, actor and charity campaigner Jo Joyner, and child counsellor and journalist, Lucy McDonald, meet children and families affected by this neuropsychiatric disorder.
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Expert: Paediatric PANS & OCD specialist Barb Shephard talks ERP (opens the original)
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** NOTE - IN THIS EPISODE I say that inference-based CBT is not evidence-based. This is wrong. I meant it is not evidence-based in children yet (although that work is underway) but it is evidence-informed in children. It is approved by the IOCDF for adult populations and is a rigorous treatment that I like as an alternative to ERP** Meet the brilliant Barb Shephard who advocates passionately for PANS in New York. She is an empathic therapist with a deep understanding of OCD. Here she talks about
OCD Special: I-CBT - Suicidal Intrusive Thoughts with Therapist Angela Henry (opens the original)
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OCD and PANS PANDAS specialist Angela Henry talks about treating OCD using I-CBT. This is a different approach that focuses on doubt – particularly how OCD can make us distrust what we know through our senses and experience. Rather than starting with “How do I tolerate the anxiety this thought creates?”, I-CBT looks at an earlier step: “How did I come to doubt this in the first place?” It helps people recognise when OCD is pulling them away from what’s actually happening in the here and now and
The Day Our Children Changed Overnight: Two Mothers on PANS/PANDAS (opens the original)
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A whopping episode-in more ways than one. In this podcast I speak to PANS/PANDAS parent and advocate Lindsey Forsyth and her friend and fellow PANS/PANDAS mother, Kate Rooney. Longer than normal, as there was so much to talk about, and it was also my first-ever triple-header. Coming from London, Florida, and California. The pair speak passionately and candidly about navigating the system and trying to work out what good care looks like. They talk about sudden onset, IVIG, OCD, the importance of
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