Dr. Alex George

ADHD is a disorder regulation where you have features of things like impulsivity, hyperfocus, sensitivity.

In OCD, you have a situation of obsession with something that relates to your health, morality, thought process, time, and you are stuck on this thing.

and one of the most renowned voices in the ADHD space.

He's using his incredible knowledge to help you understand your ADHD and live in harmony with it.

The cruelty is that OCD feeds on people that care, that care about their own health, that care about the health of others, that care about their impact on other people, that want to learn from their mistakes.

That is the perfect place for OCD to thrive.

I tell you one thing for sure, I'd happily lose everything that I've ever done in terms of success and achievements and not have OCD and live peacefully because OCD has definitely nearly killed me.

Yeah, I think it's, to be honest with you, OCD is something that I've lived with most of my life, but had no idea that I actually had.

And I think this is the thing about OCD.

It's a sneaky, sneaky illness because it constantly hides behind your worries and your fears.

And you constantly think that it's the thing you're worried about that needs fixing.

not the illness itself.

So many people with OCD, like myself, will go 15, 20 years before they're diagnosed for that very reason.

So if you're someone, for example, that's constantly worried they're going to get sick, your brain is focusing on not getting sick and making sure that your compulsions, your actions, are going to minimize that risk of getting sick.

What you don't think is that it's not the illness that you're worried about catching that's the problem.

it's the OCD.

You don't realize that.

Or if you're someone that's worried about being a good person, you're constantly like, no, but this thing that I did makes me bad, or this thing, I need to deal with this in the right way, otherwise I'm a bad person.

You think that that is the thing you need to get to the bottom of, and you never do.

You don't realize that actually it's the OCD you need to work on, and it's cruel for that reason.