welcome to the all the hard things blog

If you’re here, I’m glad it didn’t take you a day, week, month, or year longer, like it does for most people. The majority of individuals who have Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) take an average of 10-17 years to get properly diagnosed and the right treatment (i.e., evidence based treatment, such as Exposure and Response Prevention). The fact that you’re here, Googling OCD and OCD symptoms, and looking at this blog, means that you now no longer have to be stuck in the black hole that is having no idea what’s going on inside your brain and feeling like you’re going “crazy”. Unfortunately, people stay stuck in that hole for far too long.

In this episode, I talked with Lauren, a mom who has been struggling with OCD since she was a young child.  She recently had an increase in OCD symptoms when she had her first baby.  We discuss.. – her symptoms of postpartum OCD as well as false memory OCD – her difficulty finding a therapist […]