Get to know OCD

Reassurance feels helpful in the moment. You ask someone if everything is okay, replay a memory to make sure you didn't do anything wrong, Google the same question for the tenth time, or tell yourself that your fear isn't true. The problem? OCD is never satisfied. The relief lasts for a moment, then the doubt comes back — and the cycle starts all over again. In this video, Dr. Patrick McGrath explains the many forms reassurance-seeking can take and doing so often feeds OCD.

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OCD doesn't just create fear — it can also quietly steal your ability to enjoy life. Whether it's replaying conversations, monitoring your feelings, avoiding things you love, or convincing yourself that you don't deserve happiness, OCD has a knack for pulling you out of the present moment. In this video, Dr. Patrick McGrath explains how OCD interferes with joy.

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Making the Olympics had been Ginny Fuchs' dream for years. But as she climbed the ranks of amateur boxing and moved to the Olympic Training Center, another battle was quietly getting worse. OCD was consuming more of her time, disrupting her sleep, and pulling her deeper into compulsions she could no longer control. Eventually, the disorder became so overwhelming that she feared it would derail the very goal she had dedicated her life to achieving.

As Olympic qualification approached, she reached a breaking point and made the difficult decision to seek inpatient treatment. In this episode, Ginny shares her story in full. She also reflects on why OCD was not a "superpower" for her and what she's learned from facing one of the toughest opponents of her life — her own OCD.

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What does it take to become a great OCD therapist? Our very own NOCD therapists, Barbara Windeknecht and Alexi Pyles, say it's not what you probably think (prior OCD experience). In fact, both came from very different clinical backgrounds with little OCD experience. What mattered more was a willingness to learn, ask questions, stay curious, and keep showing up for members even when the work felt challenging.

In this episode, Barbara and Alexi discuss the traits they believe help therapists thrive in OCD treatment. They also share why exposure and response prevention therapy feels different from traditional therapy, and why some of the best therapists aren't the ones who know everything, but rather, they're the ones who never stop learning.

If you’re ready to deepen your ERP skills and work somewhere specialized OCD treatment is the focus — not an afterthought — explore joining the team at NOCD: https://learn.nocd.com/therapist_careers

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Tell Williams thought he was just a worrier. As a child, he believed things had to feel perfectly "even" or something bad would happen to the people he loved. Later came contamination fears, intrusive thoughts, health anxiety, and rituals that slowly began shaping more of his life than he realized. It wasn't until adulthood — after being diagnosed with ADHD, autism, and eventually OCD — that everything started to click.

In this episode of the Get to Know OCD podcast, Tell shares the OCD signs he missed for years, and how finally getting a proper diagnosis changed how he understood himself. He also opens up about talking about his OCD openly to his millions of followers, and why he thinks it's important for others to better understand the disorder.

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