
102- OCD in Focus: Recognizing Symptoms and Getting the Best Treatment
ADHD Experts Podcast
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The Confusion Between Hyper Focus and Over Focus
On days that she had to write a paper, this woman looked very OCD. She would start cleaning her room because any amount of mess or disorganization would just derail her from the level of focus that she needed to write her paper. What she was doing was actually a behavior that was managing her ADHD. Someone with pure OCD would be bothered by,. with that kind of OCDwould be bothered by a mess and disorganization any day of the week. And as a result, wasn't able to get all the information. He had a very high obsessive degree of perfectionism that not only came out in those academic ways, but in leaving the house, he had to be very symmetrical
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