60. ADHD and OCD with Dr.Roberto Olivardia lecturer at Harvard Medical School
The OCD Whisperer Podcast with Kristina Orlova
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The Role of Perfectionism in ADHD
People with ADHD engage in a lot of sort of ritual kind of compulsive behaviors, but more as a way of managing their ADHD. People with OCD can almost sometimes welcome the distractibility of something that takes them outside of just focusing singularly on a certain thought. So they can really be sort of intertwined in that way. And I always say it's very important to tease out and even questionnaires don't always capture that because you always want to understand that.
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