Cate Gilpin: When OCD creeps into your career
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We know that OCD can affect every part of our lives, and unfortunately our careers can often be in the firing line of this difficult disorder.
In this episode, Penny and Angie talk to writer, consultant and mother of two, Cate Gilpin about how OCD has affected her career and how she has finally taken some control back.
We talk with Cate about:
Being an anxious kid and having obsessions that she wouldn't understand until she was an adult
Sexual orientation OCD
Experiencing intense feelings of over-responsibility when working in retail
Being diagnosed with OCD after having her two kids, and later on with ADHD
Chronic imposter syndrome and playing it safe in jobs she was over-qualified for
Facing the terror of starting a new, challenging role