Story: Michael (health anxiety, trauma and OCD) (#535)

In episode 535 I chat with Michael who has kindly agreed to share his OCD story with us. We discuss his OCD story, nightmares in childhood, relationship themed OCD, the onset of his OCD, harm themed OCD, getting therapy, experiencing a health condition, medical trauma, health anxiety, balancing real health conditions with health anxiety, trauma and OCD (PTOCD), living life and making choices, doing exposure and response prevention therapy (ERP) for health anxiety in the midst of an actual health issue, self compassion, and much more. Hope it helps. Show notes: The podcast is made possible by NOCD . NOCD offers effective, convenient therapy available in the US and outside the US. To find out more about NOCD, their therapy plans and if they currently take your insurance head over to Join many other listeners getting our weekly emails. Never miss a podcast episode or update:

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Story: Michael (health anxiety, trauma and OCD) (#535) is an episode from The OCD Stories by Stuart.

This episode is 56:16 long.

This episode was published on Apr 26, 2026.

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