This week Penny and Angie are joined by pediatrican Dr Annie Moulden and clinical psychologist Lauren Wetheimer. They dive into topics including who can diagnose a child with OCD and how this process unfolds, how and why parents play such a big and important role in OCD recovery, the advantages of early diagnosis and the role of medication.
Finding a psychologist in Australia:
OCD Bounce Directory
Seeing a provisional psychologist:
UTS
Bond university
Swinburne University
Online therapy options:
OCD? Not Me!
Books about OCD in kids for adults:
Talking Back to OCD by John S. March
Breaking Free of Child Anxiety and OCD by Eli R. Lebowitz
Books about OCD for kids:
Nobody’s Perfect by Ellen Burns
What to do when your brain gets stuck by Dawn Huebner
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How to help a loved one with OCD
Hugh Van Cuylenburg has lived and loved someone with OCD for over 10 years. And that person happens to be co-host Penny Moodie. Penny and Angie talk to Hugh about why he thinks he’s still not great at always knowing what to do, why humour helps and why sometimes your instincts to help can fuel the OCD. They end the episode by offering their top tips on how to support someone you love who has this complex disorder.
Our top 6 tips:
1. Learn as much as you can about OCD
2. Practice patience
3. Try to foster a loving and non-judgemental environment
4. Expect relapses
5. Try to see your loved one's psychologist together
6. Try to plan ahead and agree what you will do together when the OCD flares up
The Man Who Couldn't Stop by David Adam
Othership app
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A Hero's Journey: The road to an OCD diagnosis
Penny and Angie speak to Clinical Psychologist and Director of Melbourne Psychology and Counselling, Dr Claire Ahern about the often-bumpy road to getting an OCD diagnosis. They also pick Claire's brain about what to look for in a therapist, the question to ask someone who you suspect might have OCD and the differences between anxiety and OCD.
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Hello and welcome to our brains.
In the very first ACTUAL episode Penny and Angie introduce themselves and talk about their own personal experiences with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, the light and the dark sides of this disorder and what's coming up on this first season of It's Not What You Think.
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Welcome to It's Not What You Think
OCD, it’s really not what you think. This is a podcast about the horrors and hilarities of living with OCD, hosted by author and mental health advocate Penny Moodie and CEO of Stand Up Events, Angie Greene.
OCD, it’s really not what you think.
This is a podcast about the horrors and hilarities of living with OCD, hosted by author and mental health advocate Penny Moodie and CEO of Stand Up Events, Angie Greene.
Both Penny and Angie have lived with OCD for as long as they can remember and they have had enough of the misconceptions about OCD that can cause so much damage.
They want to share what it’s really like to live with OCD so that other people feel more understood and less alone.
Each week they will speak to an expert or someone with lived experience to delve into the raw and often confronting reality of living with this often debilitating illness.
Penny and Angie are on a mission to shine a light on something that is so often shrouded in shame so that everyone can feel less alone.
So if you have OCD, or you know someone who has OCD, take a listen!
INSTAGRAM: instagram.com/itsnotwhatyouthink_pod
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