It’s been ages and ages has it not! Yeah, I never got around to finishing season 2 did I? Life – unsurprisingly for a dude with OCD – got a bit weird there for a while. I stayed busy working on my Substack – you should check that out, at spoook.substack.com, I write a lot about OCD there – and I kept making two of my other podcasts, The James McMahon Music Podcast and Shame, both available (as they say) wherever you get your podcasts.
But my OCD got pretty bad. It was getting pretty bad around the time I stopped publishing episodes. And then I started having a bunch of new therapy… which has been going really well actually. I’ve had a few wobbles. Quite big wobbles. But for the largest part things have been getting good. I feel like I’ve learned to manage my OCD better than I did when I was putting out episodes all the time – which means… I think I’m ready to start working on season three.
I’ve got a few ideas of people I want to speak to, but I thought it might be a nice idea to officially end season two here, with a conversation I recently had with Chris Hawkins on BBC 6 Music about my life with OCD. Now, I’m sure I’m not supposed to have taped the interview off the radio and repurposed it here for you, but I’m sure it’ll be fine. I’m not worried. I don’t worry about normal things. Just whether I’ve tapped a table enough times or whether I’m going to cut my arm off. OCD it’s absolutely bloody bonkers, right?
Enjoy this chat, won’t you. And season 3 is coming…