Dr. Alex George

If you combine ADHD and OCD, that's an even bigger recipe for disaster because you've got a brain that is impulsive, that is emotional, that can kind of jump to the worst case scenario with an obsessive compulsive brain.

That's why I think OCD and ADHD is so commonly coexisting because you have a sensitive brain that has this impulsivity, that has this higher emotional state of ability with this part of the brain that will latch on and think and think and think and think and think.

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Rejection sensitivity is for, isn't just about being a bit sensitive.

I think it is a risk to life.

and certainly a risk to health.

Turning to alcohol, a very common coping mechanism for many ADHD traits, but certainly for rejection sensitivity, because actually it hurts less when you drink.

It creates a delay between experience and pain.

To be honest with you, most of the overstimulation I experience is actually...

Dr. Alex, welcome back.

Thank you for having me.

It's nice to be back, back on the comfortable chair, the ADHD chair.

That is quite a bit.

I don't know.

That's tough.

Potentially.

I mean, it depends in what sense.