Join us, Laura Mole and Jessica Hayes, to really pick apart an OCD subtype that isn't talked about much. False memories and real-event OCD gets explored in this episode, you'll get to understand mental and invisible compulsions, and you even get a look into Jess' dog frustrations and Laura's big brain fails to get to know us more. We hope you have as much fun with it as we did.

Time stamps:

00:30 Jess talks Dobby the house elf

02:30 Introduction to real-event OCD

02:58 Exposure feedback from our self-care

09:10 Using our support systems

10:00 Spoon theory

12:30 How we felt releasing the podcast

13:50 Brain spam

19:00 Real event OCD and false memories, how it works

19:50 Why memory is unreliable, despite what your OCD says

24:00 Sexual shame memories

25:30 Mental compulsions and what they do

26:40 Laura starts buffering

30:45 Cancel culture and real-event OCD

32:40 Why is guilt there?

35:00 Perfect morals and values

37:00 Over-apologising and OCD

39:00 Mental compulsions vs just thinking

44:20 What is pure O?

44:58 Can erp work for mental compulsions?

46:20 The mental load of OCD

48:10 What we aim for in therapy for OCD

49:15 Dropping anchor to help with rumination

53:47 OCD wins of the week

55:00 Exposure lab

100:00 Goodbyes

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