Dr. Alex George

catastrophic living in a world where you know for example you know it's like oh gosh you know if you've eaten this food then you're gonna be x times more likely to die from a disease you're surrounded by constant messaging of things you might have done or mistakes you make or decisions you're doing that feels all irreversible and feels very heavy so i think we have to be kind as society otherwise i think we're going to see more and more more ocd coming up it's a breeding ground modern society for ocd

I think what you're looking at, at its core, to remember is that ADHD is a disorder of regulation.

where you have features of things like impulsivity, hyperfocus, sensitivity.

There's things around time and memory, blindness, stuff like that.

You see those features.

In OCD, you have a situation of obsession.

with something that relates to your health morality thought process time it might be something there's something you're really obsessive about and you are stuck on this thing and you end up in a cyclical process of stuckness and you end up anxious of this obsession

obsession with autism would be i'm obsessed with trains it gives you joy this obsession makes you absolutely miserable and anxious but sometimes ocd people confuse ocd with autism in fact obviously because of the because of the co-concurrence of all of these things you could have ocd adhd and autism right all together in one pot but the features are different so

Yeah, you might be obsessed with learning every fact about a car, right?

But that makes you happy.

Whereas learning every fact about a disease is not of interest, it's the thing you're trying to do to reduce your anxiety, or that obsession makes you miserable.

That's what you kind of look for.

But the reality is that people can have both because of the fact that you've got someone that can be really sensitive, really hyper-focused, and then lock on on this thing.

But ultimately, when you ask yourself, could this be OCD?

you stuck on something is there a belief or thought that you're stuck on that you end up cyclical with and that you're doing things to relieve yourself from so are you doing things whether it's avoidance reassurance checking compulsions rumination cleaning habits whatever it might be are you doing things to reduce the anxiety caused by this obsession or thought if you are think ocd and just remember

you'll probably doubt it's OCD the whole time.

And even if you get diagnosed with OCD, you'll constantly question, but is it OCD?

What if they're wrong?

What if I haven't got OCD and I am going to get sick tomorrow?

Or what if I've got OCD and I am a terrible person?