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Aug 2022
44m 51s

#103 - Health Anxiety and OCD with Rache...

Jenna Overbaugh
About this episode

In this episode, I meet with Rachel Ehrenberg, aka @rachelsocdgrotto on Instagram and an OCD advocate, to discuss health anxiety and OCD.  We discuss..


- What is health anxiety/OCD?

- Rachel's personal story including common obsessions and compulsions

- Common misconceptions regarding health anxiety/OCD

- Treatment options for health anxiety/OCD


This podcast should not be substituted, nor is meant to act as a substitute, for legitimate mental health treatment/a legitimate mental health treatment provider. 


This podcast and any information in it is solely the reflection of general knowledge and cannot be taken as a personal therapeutic recommendation.  To find a therapist near you to work more directly with these issues, head over to NOCD.com, IOCDF.org, psychologytoday.com,  or nami.org. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jennaoverbaugh/support

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