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OCD Awareness Movie Night, Screening of ‘As Good As It Gets”

You’re invited! See below information shared on behalf of Rogers Behavioral Health San Diego:

Join Rogers Behavioral Health San Diego for a special movie night dedicated to raising awareness about Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). We will be screening the classic 1997 film ‘As Good As It Gets’ – a heartfelt comedy that sheds light on the challenges faced by individuals with OCD.

Date: Thu Oct 12 2023
Time: 6:00 PM (Pacific Daylight Time)
Location: 4040 Goldfinch Street, San Diego, CA 92103

Before the movie screening, please help yourself to catered pizza and the opportunity to connect with OCD specialists in the San Diego community, along with the Rogers Behavioral Health – San Diego clinical team. Your admission, dinner from Lefty’s Chicago Pizzeria, popcorn, and nonalcoholic beverages will be courtesy of Rogers Behavioral Health, San Diego’s only higher-level-of-care OCD treatment center.

Don’t miss this opportunity to enjoy a great movie while supporting a meaningful cause. Grab your friends and family, and let’s come together to learn, laugh, and raise awareness about OCD. Hope to see you there!

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Join OCD Southern California’s Mailing List!

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OCD SoCal is constantly hosting free and low-cost events in the local Southern California area. We also host virtual events, which means those events are open to anyone from anywhere! Additionally, we send out information on exciting OCD-related events thrown by other outstanding organizations and individuals.

To stay up-to-date on what is happening with OCD SoCal and the OCD community, sign up to be on our email list. Email: info@ocdsocal.org and include your name in the body of your email and that you would like to be on our mailing list. We will then add you! OCD SoCal sends out a sensible amount of emails monthly and does not share the email list with other organizations.

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OCD SoCal & the IOCDF Presents the 2023 Online OCD Conference on Sat., October 21st and Sun., October 22nd! Program Is Now Available!

Click HERE to Register for the 2023 Online OCD Conference

Many of you enjoyed OCD Southern California’s previous virtual OCD conferences. We are excited to announce that our online OCD conference is back! However, this time we are partnering with the International OCD Foundation (IOCDF – www.iocdf.org) to bring you 2023’s Online OCD Conference on Saturday, October 21st and Sunday, October 22nd! By partnering with the IOCDF, we are able to bring you a larger, 2-day conference with more speakers, more talks, more community discussion groups, and we are able to reach more people!

The Online OCD Conference is a two-day virtual event jam-packed with educational programming for those in the OCD and related disorders community, including: 

Individuals with lived OCD experience
Family members & supporters
Pre-licensed trainees & students
Mental health professionals

Register here: www.iocdf.org/onlineocdcon

Sessions and Q&A, Community Discussion Groups, and our Virtual Keynote will all be broadcast live via Zoom, meaning anyone can attend from anywhere in the world! Session presentations and the Keynote will be available on-demand for 60 days following the event, giving you plenty of time to access all of the #OCDCon programming.

View the Online OCD Conference’s Program Here: The Online OCD Conference 2023 Program

Registration is now open for the online OCD conference! The 2-day, weekend virtual event is happening on October 21 – 22. So register today and celebrate with us as OCD SoCal is excited to co-host this conference with the IOCDF!

For further information and to register, please visit: Online OCD Conference – 2023 Online OCD Conference (iocdf.org)

We look forward to seeing everyone there!

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Tune in next week to KXO Radio “Let’s Talk About It” for English and Spanish broadcasts of “Exploring OCD”

From El Centro, CA: OCD SoCal invites you to tune into our interview with KXO Radio, “Let’s Talk About It: Exploring OCD.” Hosted by Scott Dudley and Patricia Arevalo-Caro, this the first time the show has featured OCD. We discuss what OCD is, how to treat it, and personal recovery. English broadcast by OCD SoCal Board Members Dr. Jennie Kuckertz and Chris Trondsen LMFT, with Spanish broadcast by Dr. Marcia Rabinowits (CBT Clinic for OCD and Anxiety). Check out the show preview below!

English Show
Thursday August 10th at 8am on 88.7FM KUBO
Sunday August 13th at 7am on 1230AM KXO
Sunday August 13th at 7pm on 107.5FM

Spanish Show
Wednesday August 9th at 8AM on 88.7FM KUBO

Don’t live in Imperial County but still want to hear the show? Not to worry – after broadcast, the shows will go to podcast at the KXO radio “Let’s Talk About It” website (make sure to check out their many other excellent mental health topics there!)