TYLER GILLETT: So I am - I live in Los Angeles. So this week, our listener with an unusually thorny technical problem - is a guy named Tyler Gillet. I felt like I was uniquely qualified to help him.Īnd so I tried. PJ: I'm saying this to you because the story I want to tell you this week, it’s about a man who is living in exactly that hell, like the hell of having something stuck on the tip of your tongue that just will not go away. PJ: The Ear, the Eye and the Arm, thank god, um but but but like I know everybody experiences that, I experienced it, I swear to god, much more deeply. The rest of my day is trying to remember the name of this book, and my brain will not change the channel until I do. Like I was talking to somebody the other day about this sci-fi book I read as a kid, and I tried to remember the name, and I couldn't remember the name, and I was like, “Oh, this is the rest of my day. Why don’t you just not look at that.” And I’ve always been like… you’re joking.īut then, there’s this other thing that happens where sometimes my brain just locks onto things that don’t matter at all, like things that are small and stupid. Why don’t you just stop thinking about it. PJ: It’s like finding your horoscope kind of? Like pe- there’s so many times in my life where somebody’s like, “Oh. Um, and like it was one of those moments that was really helpful because there were all these parts of my personality that I’ve kind of struggled with thatĪLEX: All of a sudden snapped into place. PJ: Yes, so he gave me the test, I was off the charts. That, that, that comports with the person that I know. Instead, you’re just extremely, extremely obsessive.”ĪLEX: Ok. PJ: But what the guy said, he was like, “Well, he was like, there’s a kind of OCD called Pure O where you don’t really have noticeable, visible compulsions. Like I am a walking pigpen.ĪLEX: I can attest to the truthfulness of that statement. Like, there’s no part of my life that’s about compulsive neatness or order. Whatever else is going on with me, I definitely don’t have OCD. PJ: And at the time, I was like, I definitely don't. He was like, “Have you ever considered the idea that you might have OCD?” PJ: So last spring, I went to a therapist cuz I was having a hard time with a bunch of stuff, and I was complaining to this therapist, I was like “Yeah, I’m just so obsessed with this, I can’t stop thinking about this,” and the therapist said something to me that no therapist ever said before. PJ: I’m gonna tell you a story that I think you sort of remember but maybe don’t know the details of.
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