Chrissie Hodges

Intrusive Thoughts Unmasked

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Intrusive Thoughts Unmasked isn’t a traditional interview show, it’s a lived-experience space. Each episode brings you directly into the raw, unfiltered reality of life with intrusive thoughts. You’ll hear regular contributors, personal stories, and the under-discussed truths of what OCD actually feels like from those of us who have had to hide behind the mask. Here, you get to take off that mask to be seen, understood, and accepted.

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Author

Chrissie Hodges

Episodes

Episode 4: What Acceptance Means to Me 29.01.2026 50:19

Acceptance can be both freeing and challenging, especially when living with OCD. There are many misconceptions around what it means, not only in our personal lives, but how it integrates into our lives on the recovery journey. Today on Intrusive Thoughts Unmasked, four guests explore what acceptance means to them and some key factors in how they have gotten where they are today in that relationsh...

Episode 3: A Conversation with Dr. Steven Phillipson 22.01.2026 37:12

In episode 3, we introduce a regular contributor, and one who is very well known throughout the world in the OCD community, Dr. Steven Phillipson. Steve is the founder of The Center for Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy in New York City, New York. He is the author of many articles bringing awareness to individuals living with intrusions with mental rituals which describes the community name that...

Episode 2: A Day In the Life of POCD 15.01.2026 53:07

Living with taboo intrusions brings added layers of shame, guilt, and self-loathing - and living with POCD - intrusions about pedophilia with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - is a theme that can be tormenting and isolating. This theme keeps people silent. It keeps people frozen in fear of the 'what if people knew I had these intrusions?' So, they stay silent. They stay alone in these tho...

Episode 1: Hiding Behind The Mask 08.01.2026 31:39

"Hiding the Truth I Couldn't Allow the World to See" In the debut episode of Intrusive Thoughts Unmasked , host and creator Chrissie Hodges shares two pivotal chapters of her life, the times when the mask she wore felt like the only way to survive. Believing she had to hide her true self to be accepted, Chrissie built personas that promised safety but delivered isolation. Through ra...