The OCD Confessional
The OCD Confessional is a podcast about living, laughing, and coping with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Hosted by former TV news anchor Liam Martin and actress/model Alicia Hill — two friends who both live with OCD — this show blends raw honesty, practical tools, expert insights, and plenty of laughs. Each episode, Liam, Alicia and a special guest will “confess” the craziest intrusive thoughts and compulsions they’ve battled, from absurd rituals to embarrassing moments, and share the tools that actually help them get through. With candid conversations and occasional input from OCD experts, The OCD Confessional is part storytelling, part survival guide, and part comedy therapy session. Whether you’re living with OCD, supporting someone who is, or just curious about what it’s like inside an OCD brain, this podcast offers hope, humor, and community. Because sometimes -- we laugh to keep from crying. Disclaimer: The OCD Confessional is about real experiences with obsessive-compulsive disorder. While we use humor to share our stories, it is never our intention to minimize the very real suffering OCD causes. Our goal is to share stories, coping tools, and hope. If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, please dial 988 in the U.S. for the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, or find local resources where you are.
Episodes
In this episode of The OCD Confessional, we’re joined by Chris Trondsen, licensed marriage and family therapist at The Gateway Institute and longtime advocate with the International OCD Foundation.
Chris brings a rare and powerful perspective to the conversation — not only does he treat OCD professionally, he has also lived through severe OCD himself.
Chris shares how intrusive thoughts and compulsions once consumed nearly...
In this episode of The OCD Confessional, we’re joined by Hussain, OCD advocate and founder of The Struggling Warrior, a platform dedicated to helping people understand and navigate obsessive-compulsive disorder: https://thestrugglingwarrior.com/
Hussain shares his personal journey living with intrusive thoughts and OCD, how the disorder targeted the things he cared about most, and what helped him begin loosening OCD’...
In this episode of The OCD Confessional, we’re joined by writer and mental-health advocate Lisa McCarty to talk about postpartum OCD, intrusive thoughts in motherhood, infertility anxiety, the stigma surrounding maternal mental health, and being a caregiver while struggling with OCD.
Lisa shares her personal experience navigating fertility struggles, pregnancy, and postpartum mental health — including how OCD and anx...
Today’s episode of The OCD Confessional is just us.
No guest. No expert. Just Alicia and Liam getting real about our own OCD journeys — the worst intrusive thoughts we’ve had, Liam’s ongoing struggle with health OCD, how this podcast has changed us, and the feedback from listeners that’s meant the most.
We talk about:
• The most ridiculous (and terrifying) OCD thoughts we’ve experienced
• How health anxiety ...
In this episode of The OCD Confessional, we’re joined by Zachary James — known on Instagram as @ocdestigmatize — to talk about living with some of the most misunderstood and stigmatized forms of OCD: Relationship OCD (ROCD), POCD, and health OCD.
Zachary shares how OCD targeted his relationships, his identity, and his health — creating relentless doubt, fear, and intrusive thoughts that felt impossible to ignore. We ...
In this episode of The OCD Confessional, we’re joined by Kristina Orlova, OCD therapist and creator of The OCD Whisperer, who brings a powerful dual perspective — both as someone who has lived with OCD and as a clinician who now helps others treat it.
Kristina opens up about her own experiences with morality OCD, relationship OCD (ROCD), and “just right” OCD — themes that quietly erode trust, certainty, and self-conf...
In this episode of The OCD Confessional, we’re honored to be joined by Dr. Nathaniel Van Kirk, licensed clinical psychologist and Program Director at McLean Hospital’s OCD Institute, to explore one of the most distressing and misunderstood forms of OCD: contamination OCD.
Nathaniel shares what his own experience with OCD looked like — including early memories of compulsions — and explains how contamination fears can...
In this episode of The OCD Confessional, we’re joined by Jeff Bell — author, mental-health advocate, and longtime spokesperson for the International OCD Foundation — for an honest conversation about living with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, uncertainty, and how personal struggle can become purpose.
Jeff opens up about what OCD looked like before he had a diagnosis, the constant loops of doubt and checking that took ...
In this episode of The OCD Confessional, we’re joined by Dr. Elizabeth “Liz” McIngvale — OCD expert, director of the OCD Institute of Texas, former national spokesperson for the International OCD Foundation, and someone who has also live with OCD herself.
Liz shares what it was like to be diagnosed with OCD at a young age, her stay in residential treatment, how severe compulsions and intrusive thoughts took over her ...
In this powerful and deeply human episode of The OCD Confessional, we sit down with Chrissie Hodges — writer, advocate, and founder of OCD Gamechangers — to talk about some of the most misunderstood parts of living with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
Chrissie has been candid about experiencing taboo intrusive thoughts, the kind of thoughts many people with OCD are afraid to speak aloud. In this conversation, we explo...
In this important episode of The OCD Confessional, we sit down with Becky Deusser and Dr. Sanjaya Saxena of the International OCD Foundation (IOCDF) to discuss their newly released white paper on America’s OCD care crisis.
The report highlights a sobering reality: millions of people with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) are unable to access timely, evidence-based treatment — even though effective therapies like ER...
What is it really like to love someone with OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder)?
In this episode of The OCD Confessional, Liam interviews Alicia and her husband, Spence Hill, about what it’s like to be in a relationship with someone living with OCD. Together, they talk openly about how OCD has shown up in their marriage, the moments that were hardest to navigate, and what’s helped them grow stronger as a couple.
Spenc...
Parents have been asking for this episode—so we made it happen.
In this powerful conversation, we talk with Dr. Eli Lebowitz, a Yale psychology professor and creator of SPACE (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions), a groundbreaking parent-based treatment for childhood OCD and anxiety.
Instead of focusing on changing a child’s behavior directly, SPACE teaches parents how to stop accommodating OCD while ...
In this powerful episode of The OCD Confessional, we sit down with Duke Al Durham — poet, rapper, spoken-word artist, and mental-health advocate whose story is unlike anything we’ve shared before.
Duke opens up about living with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Type 1 diabetes, the intrusive thoughts that shaped his early life, and the moment he walked in front of a moving car—not out of a desire to die, but b...
In this episode of The OCD Confessional, Liam and Alicia sit down with influencer Alicia Mitas, known for her viral TikTok and Instagram videos about OCD, emetophobia, anxiety, and intrusive thoughts.
Alicia opens up about developing OCD and emetophobia at just 7 years old, how those early symptoms shaped her childhood, friendships, dating life, and even her college dreams. She shares the moment she hit rock bottom, ...
In this powerful episode of The OCD Confessional, we talk with Lillian Donahue, a broadcast journalist whose battle with severe OCD nearly took her life at just 25 years old.
Lillian shares how her OCD spiraled into constant terror, debilitating intrusive thoughts, and overwhelming compulsions — all while she was working as a full-time TV reporter.
She opens up about:
- What it’s like living with intense OCD
- The momen...
In this episode of The OCD Confessional, Liam Martin and Alicia Hill sit down with comedian and mental health advocate Danny Killea. Danny shares his honest—and hilarious—journey living with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and how he uses stand-up comedy and his podcast Dinner at Your Place to start real conversations about mental health.
We talk about how OCD shows up in Danny’s life, the power of turning pain i...
What is it like to live with OCD — not just for the person experiencing it, but for the partner who shares daily life with them?
In this episode of The OCD Confessional, Alicia turns interviewer as she sits down with Liam Martin and his wife Dr. Lia Martin, a clinical psychologist. Together, they talk candidly about the realities of being married to someone with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) — the challenges, t...
In this episode of The OCD Confessional, Liam Martin and Alicia Hill welcome Dr. Lisa W. Coyne, one of the world’s leading experts on obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Dr. Coyne is a licensed clinical psychologist, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School, Senior Clinical Consultant at McLean Hospital’s Child and Adolescent OCD Institute (OCDI Jr.), and a member of the Clinical and Scientific A...
Welcome to the very first full episode of The OCD Confessional! 🎙
In this episode, hosts Liam Martin (former Boston news anchor) and Alicia Hill (Los Angeles actress & model) sit down to share and laugh about their personal experiences living with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). From intrusive thoughts to ridiculous rituals, they open up about what OCD has looked like in their lives, why they wanted to star...
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