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Led by National Advocates Ethan Smith and Liz McIngvale, PhD, the IOCDF Advocates lead the community in various advocacy projects, such as our OCD Awareness Week initiatives, awareness-raising PSAs, inspirational social media content, and much more. Want to become an advocate? Become an IOCDF Grassroots Advocate.
Posted September 22, 2014. Ethan Smith's 2014 Keynote at the IOCDF Annual OCD Conference. Watch on. One Sunday afternoon in February, I was sitting on my couch mulling over the idea of submitting for keynote. I jumped up, set up a camera on a tripod in my office, hit record, and started talking.
Ethan Smith has had OCD for as long as he can remember. At first, the obsessive thoughts were relatively benign—limited to minor behaviors like tapping his pencil a certain number of times or repeatedly taking his temperature—but as he grew older, OCD began to take over his life, leaving him with a crippling fear of hurting himself.
After successful treatment, does life become easy, with OCD mere background noise rather than the seemingly immovable barrier that it once was? IOCDF National Ambassador, Ethan S. Smith describes the surprising insights and lessons that came in the wake of his successful OCD treatment.
In episode 118 of The OCD Stories podcast I interviewed Ethan Smith. Ethan is a professional Writer/Director/Producer. Ethan is a national ambassador for the charity the IOCDF. I talked with Ethan about his OCD story, and his recovery. Ethan breaks down what worked for him and his recovery journey.
Ethan Smith (OCD Advocate) was the keynote speaker at the 2014 Annual International Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Conference, the International OCD Foundation National Ambassador, a writer, director, producer and OCD Advocate.
Ethan Smith was the 2014 Annual International Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ( IOCDF.org) Conference keynote speaker and is the International OCD Foundation National Ambassador. Ethan is also a writer, director, producer and rockstar OCD Advocate.
