Bonus Episode: The OCD Experience with Neurobiologist Uma Chatterjee
This one’s all about lived experience: What's it like to have OCD? What’s the therapy all about? How do you support people with it? And how to accept the darkest thoughts that might haunt you. As a bonus to last week’s OCD Neurobiology episode with Dr. Wayne Goodman, the wonderful neuroscientist, board-certified mental health peer specialist, and survivor Uma Chatterjee joins to share her experience living with OCD, and how it inspired a career in research and mental health advocacy. This bonus episode is wall-to-wall heart-warming compassion and real world perspective from someone who cares deeply. OCD is a bitch, but Uma’s a gem.
Listen via Apple, Spotify, iHeart, Podbay, Podcast Addict, or wherever you listen to podcasts.
Visit Uma’s website and follow her on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Bluesky
Listen to her podcast, A Chat with Uma
A donation went to OCD Wisconsin
Links to things we discussed:
My Life With OCD - National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
How Battling OCD Led This Scientist to Groundbreaking Discoveries w/Uma Chatterjee
Find an OCD therapist, clinic, or support group in your area.
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