Lee Solomon on Intrusive Thoughts, Compulsions, and Breaking Free From OCD
Lee Solomon is an OCD specialist, therapist, educator, and founder of Solomon Psychiatrics. Based in Tampa, Florida, he works with teens and adults living with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). His professional work is inseparable from lived experience. After spending years trapped by unwanted thoughts about harming the people he loved, Lee found the language and treatment that helped him understand what was happening. He went on to become the therapist he once needed but could not find.
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OCD specialist, therapist, educator and founder of The OCD Therapists, Lee Solomon joins the Brainz Podcast to explore one of the world’s most misunderstood mental-health conditions: obsessive-compulsive disorder. Drawing on his own lived experience and his work supporting clients, Lee reveals why OCD is about far more than being tidy or organised, and why intrusive thoughts can feel so frighteningly real.