The Silent Sufferers of OCD - A Conversation with Paul Peterson
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.พ. 2025
- There is almost certainly someone in your life who is struggling with OCD, and it could be much more severe than you might imagine. OCD is a serious mental illness, and it’s very common for OCD sufferers to experience severe depression and even suicidal thoughts. In a religious setting, it is quite common for OCD to manifest in extreme and very unhealthy scrupulosity.
In a previous Faith Matters podcast episode, podcast host Tim Chaves shared some of his own very painful struggles with OCD and scrupulosity. We were amazed by how many people reached out to us to share their own experiences with OCD. Some had been diagnosed and knew what to call it, but others hadn’t replied that what they were suffering from during their lifetime was OCD. Latter-day Saints often start by explaining its symptoms in religious language, or looking only to religious solutions to solve it.
This week, we share a truly illuminating conversation we recorded with Paul Peterson, CEO of the OCD and Anxiety Treatment Center.
If you know someone who may be suffering from OCD, please feel free to share this episode with them. We want to spread as widely as possible any information that can lead to diagnosis and treatment.
This is part of an ongoing conversation Faith Matters is sponsoring about mental health challenges faced by so many of our brothers and sisters, friends, and family members.
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Also, thank you for such a thorough and comprehensive discussion about this brain disorder and the treatment that is available for it!
Love this, so glad this information is available for free
Thanks for talking about this. It’s very important
Wow. A whole world I knew nothing about but something I could see in small amounts of in myself.
Thank you
Paul is a great guy. Helped me so much years ago.
Wow this is scary. I've always thought OCD was tidy clean organized to the extreme but some of what he was describing I see parallels to my own self with..........
Is there such a thing as drug- induced OCD?
I think even ppl who say I'm so ocd could still have ocd. Ocd is a spectrum. I've had periods of full blown ocd that is severe that last over a year of intrusive thoughts and mental compulsions and anxiety or periods where I just get a lil annoyed about things being a certain way
It's a spectrum for sure. Ocd is like a spark when it flares up or a ember. But If you don't suppress it when it initially starts it can turn into a full blown forest fire.
FACINATING. I'll never look at OCD the same. I'll never look at OCD the same. I'll never look at OCD the same. Okay, that was in poor taste, but seriously, I'll never look at OCD the same.
Seriously. You couldn't think of a better example than an inappropriate thought of Jesus?? Thanks for that. Ugh. When I was a child, a guy in church told me to add, "in the bath tub" to every hymnal in the hymn book. I still struggle with that, except now I add other inappropriate thoughts to hymns because I've made better rhymes that what is currently in there. I'm going to stop listening to this podcast. Its making me worse!