Dr. Alex George

Around 3% of the population experience OCD at some point in their life, right?

When you look at people with OCD, 25 or up to 25% of them have co-concurrent ADHD.

So what we're saying is that a lot of people who have OCD, a significant proportion of them,

actually have a background of having adhd and bearing in mind the prevalence of adhd is about four to five percent i think that shows really it highlights how much the two things can play into each other which to me makes absolute sense so if you have adhd and you're someone that gets really stuck on things i don't really care what your compulsions are physical or not if you get stuck on things and you can't get over things you keep ruminating or you can't move on from something it keeps coming up day after day week after week think about ocd

OCD is the fourth most common psychiatric disorder.

So it's a really common experience.

And yet it is massively underdiagnosed because people don't realize they have it.

They suffer for decades with no clue that the thing they're suffering from is actually OCD.

Maybe.

I often wonder if I want to do my best to be busy, to focus on other things.

Morality is very important.

I want to help people and do good things, and therefore perhaps my obsession around making sure that I make a difference plays into it.

But I suspect that probably leads more to other aspects of being neurodivergent than

the OCD side of it.

Maybe it does drive me in some ways.

Maybe that there's a level of avoidance even by that.

I think you're right.

I mean, like I said, the things that make you susceptible OCD are the things that might make you brilliant at running a podcast like this.

The fact that you, for example, if you want to be someone to help other people, you kind of need to care about other people.

You need to actually have empathy and care.